An anti-diabetic drug that lowers blood sugar levels for type 2 diabetes sufferers also significantly cuts the risk of cardiovascular and kidney disease, according to a study.

As we celebrate our achievements in reducing death of mothers, newborns and children, and we do have a lot to celebrate, we must also take action to ensure that the benefits of our advancements reach everyone, and no mother or child is left behind.

For as long as athletes have been battling for gold medals, they have been taking fortifying tonics, some stomach-churning, others downright dangerous with little concern for their health.

Just two years ago, the topic of drug-resistant infections would usually be met with questions like "What is AMR?" or, "Why would a finance minister take charge of a health crisis?" Few understood the scale and multifaceted nature of the challenge, and thus the need for a comprehensive approach.

The government has suspended three privately-run medical colleges for breaching code of conduct.

The High Court directs the government to halt production of medicines by 20 pharmaceutical companies in seven days for allegedly producing substandard drugs.

Superbugs will kill someone every three seconds by 2050 unless the world acts now, a hugely influential report says.

Government approves a draft law with a provision of jail term and fine for a person who is affected with transmitted disease but does not undergo medical detection procedure.

The world's sleeping patterns have been revealed by scientists analysing data collected from an app. It showed the Dutch have nearly an hour more in bed every night than people in Singapore or Japan.

Scientists say they have a near-perfect picture of the genetic events that cause breast cancer.

More than two billion people live in parts of the world where the Zika virus can spread, detailed maps published in the journal eLife show.

Around 74.8 percent tobacco products are being marketed without any pictorial health warning violating law, according to a study.

More than 150 countries have begun switching to a different polio vaccine - an important milestone towards polio eradication, health campaigners say.

With a heat wave sweeping across the country, several hundred diarrhoea patients have been admitted to hospitals across the country.

The first uterus transplant in the US fails because of yeast infection, Cleveland Clinic, a multispecialty academic hospital located in Cleveland, Ohio, revealed on Friday.

Scientists in Japan have successfully transplanted mice with lab-grown skin that has more of the organ's working parts in place than ever before.

The health, nutrition and population (HNP) sector of Bangladesh has achieved commendable success in recent years.

Medicine cost eats up two-thirds of the money spent by people from their own pockets for health, pushing those with chronic diseases towards poverty, said speakers at a policy dialogue yesterday.

A pregnant woman living in Queensland, Australia has tested positive for the Zika virus, say health authorities.

A rare case of the Zika virus being transmitted through sex, not a mosquito bite, has been reported in the US.