Health & Fitness

The World Health Organization has added new curative treatments for hepatitis C to its essential medicines list, but the UN…

Liberia is now free of Ebola after going 42 days - twice the maximum incubation period for the deadly disease…

The number of Ebola cases reported in Guinea and Sierra Leone last week dropped to its lowest total this year,…

Intensive medical management with supervised diet and exercise may work as well as weight-loss surgery to help diabetics get blood…

Heading to the grocery store armed with a list may make it easier to follow a healthy diet, a study…

Europe faces an obesity crisis of "enormous proportions" as unhealthy diets and physical inactivity inflate waistlines and health costs, the…

 Elton John forecast Wednesday the end of AIDS in his lifetime -- but only if the United States keeps leading…

World Hand Hygiene Day (May 5) is the opportune moment to remember that germs are primarily transmitted by your hands…

Jackie Chan was named Singapore's first celebrity anti-drug ambassador on Thursday and the kung fu movie star sought to warn…

Dying patients sometimes seek emergency access to experimental medicines, desperate for a last-chance treatment even if there's little proof it…