New evaluation of the physical rehabilitation response after the 2010 Haiti earthquake finds that many hands didn’t always make light work.

World Health Day is celebrated on 7 April, to mark the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization. The theme for 2012 is ?Ageing and Health ? good health adds life to years.?

First direct link found between breast cancer risk and genetically-determined levels of the hormone oestrogen in younger women

Tourists who have visited a malaria-infected country and are over the age of 65 are almost 10 times more likely to die from the disease than those who are aged 18-35, reveals a

New research has found that treatment of hypertension has failed to improve in the last decade in the countries of the former Soviet Union. 

New research has added to the growing evidence for the benefits of aspirin in cancer.

42% of English nurses 'burned out'

Studies in monkeys are unlikely to provide reliable evidence for links between social status and heart disease in humans, according to the first ever systematic review of the relevant research.

Analysis of Chlamydia trachomatis highlights risks with current method of tracking

It is a cruel fact that deaths from complications of pregnancy and childbirth remain a major public health problem in many developing countries, killing hundreds of thousands of women each year.

A pioneering project to reduce child mortality through mass media

Urban poverty is excluding hundreds of millions of children from vital services, UNICEF warns in its flagship publication, State of the World’s Childr