US health authorities on Friday declare a public health emergency in Puerto Rico due to the outbreak of Zika, which has now infected more than 10,000 people.

Africa's giant pouched rats have a lesser-known but equally critical vocation - saving lives by speeding up tuberculosis detection.

The brains of overweight people look "10 years older" than those of leaner peers, a study has found. Brains naturally

There really can’t be any adult in this great big world that has never tried coffee. It is consumed everywhere. But

Early this year thousands of children got access to rotavirus vaccines in India with the start of a national introduction

You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening.

Many people have some sort of chronic pain, meaning the long-term kind that sticks around after an injury or

The four-year-old boy of Magura who looks like an 80-year-old man due to the premature ageing condition progeria, has been admitted to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) this morning.

An experimental pill could help adults with severe asthma, an early study in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal suggests.

Three different ways of designing a vaccine have been shown to be completely protective against the Zika virus.

US government researchers say they have begun their first clinical trial of a Zika vaccine while the Obama administration told lawmakers funds to fight the virus would run out in the coming weeks due to congressional inaction.

From saltwater and freshwater fish to deep water shellfish, seafood is a beloved delicacy. Seafood is nutrient-rich, serves as a good

A new class of antibiotics has been discovered by analysing the bacterial warfare taking place up people's noses, scientists report. Tests

The latest WHO and UNICEF data on global immunisation coverage show that 86% of the world’s children received the required 3 doses of

If you have been sidelined by a sore back, you are not alone. Four out of five people experience back pain at some point, making it the

Breast milk ensures a child’s right to survive, develop, participate and be protected. Promoting breastfeeding is essential, because it

National Liver Foundation of Bangladesh launches a first-ever mobile app targeting almost 300 million Bengali-speaking people across the world to create awareness about the fatal diseases--Hepatitis B and C.

A baby has died and another is in critical condition after both were administered "laughing gas" instead of oxygen at a hospital in Sydney.

When it comes to height, Dutch men and Latvian women tower over all other nationalities, a new study confirms.

A woman in Spain infected with the Zika virus gives birth to a baby with the brain disease microcephaly, thought to be the first such birth in Europe.