Keeping a healthy heart may have as much to do with the quality of health care you have available as it does you avoiding risk factors such as smoking, bad diet and little exercise.

Leave the car at home for a healthier daily commute say authors of new study

Greater openness needed to challenge harmful attitudes and expectations about anal sex between men and women. Young men are not always concerned about getting consent from young women to

A higher body mass index (BMI) increases the risk of developing 10 of the most common cancers*, the largest study of its kind on BMI and cancer, involving more than 5 million adults in the UK, publ

The proportion of men who start to drink alcohol in their teens has surged more than threefold over the past few decades in Goa, India, according to research by Dr Aravind Pillai, Mailman School of

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Not all pregnant women with symptoms of malaria seek care from their formal healthcare system, and those that do may be given inappropriate treatment because healthcare providers often fail to

A malaria vaccine administered to children aged 5-17 months has been shown to provide an average level of protection of 46% against clinical attacks of malaria 18 months after vaccination, accordin

SASA! programme could half physical intimate partner violence experienced by women.

A project that uses mobile technology to map the blinding disease trachoma has already studied 137 million people nine months ahead of schedule, as it marks its second anniversary.

A reduction in alcohol consumption, even for light-to-moderate drinkers, could be linked to improved cardiovascular health, including a reduced risk of coronary heart disease, lower body mass index

Parents of critically ill babies who die while enrolled in clinical trials should be offered ongoing information about the trial and its results, according to a