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UNICEF has established two mobile units of child protection and welfare experts in Croatia, as an estimated 10,000 women and child refugees and migrants have entered the country in the past week alone.

UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the World Bank Group Tuesday released updated estimates on child malnutrition, including stunting, wasting and excessive weight. These figures update the child malnutrition numbers in recently released 2015 Global Nutrition Report and the new estimates include data from 62 new surveys from 57 countries.

Getting close to nature might improve the quality of your sleep, new research suggests.

Brain tumors known as gliomas usually produce symptoms several months before they're diagnosed, but new research found changes in immune function may occur up to five years before these cancers are detected.

Scientists report they have identified new genes associated with height, heart disease risk and regulation of the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen.

One tumor is a difficult thing to face. Imagine having nearly 100.

The estimated number of people with AMD will more than double by 2050.

Malaria death rates have plunged by 60 per cent since 2000, but the ancient killer remains an acute public health problem with 15 countries mainly in sub-Saharan Africa accounting for some 80 per cent of cases and deaths globally, according to a new United Nations report released 17 September.