Health

Eating oily fish may boost bowel cancer survival: study

PARIS, France (AFP) -- People with bowel cancer may improve their survival chances by eating a lot of omega 3…

PhilHealth sets new policies on the diagnosis and management of Asthma

QUEZON CITY, July 17 - To ensure that only legitimate claims for asthma cases will be paid for, the Philippine Health Insurance…

Chance of Zika in Rio less than one in 500,000 – health minister

  RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) -- The Brazilian healthy minister said on Tuesday (July 12) that the chance of…

UN: Quest to end global AIDS epidemic at risk

SWITZERLAND (AFP) -- Efforts to end the global AIDS pandemic by 2030 are lagging, the UN warned Tuesday, decrying rising…

Many high-risk patients missed by diabetes screening

MIAMI, United States (AFP) -- More than half of people at high risk for diabetes are missed under current US…

Quest to end AIDS epidemic at risk: UN

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) - by Nina LARSON Efforts to end the global AIDS pandemic by 2030 are lagging, the UN warned…

Global push to make Mediterranean diet sexy again

by Céline CORNU MILAN, Italy (AFP) -- It may be on the UNESCO heritage list, but global experts warn the…

How one man spread a killer virus in hospital

PARIS, France (AFP) -- A single patient infected 82 people with the deadly MERS virus in an overcrowded South Korean emergency…

Climate change health impacts loom large

by Marlowe HOOD PARIS, France (AFP) -- The world should brace for potentially devastating impacts on human health due to…

Blood test may help prevent overuse of antibiotics

MIAMI, United States (AFP) -- An inexpensive blood test could one day tell doctors whether an infection is caused by…

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