Health & Fitness

E-cigarettes contain up to 10 times the amount of cancer-causing agents as regular tobacco, Japanese scientists said Thursday, the latest…

Health campaigners Wednesday welcomed India's plans to raise the age for tobacco purchases to 25 and ban unpackaged cigarettes, hailing…

Exercising three times a week reduces the odds of developing depression by around 16 percent, scientists said on Wednesday --…

India has set up a ministry to promote alternative therapies such as yoga and traditional ayurveda medicine, as Prime Minister…

Long-derided saturated fats -- associated with an array of health problems such as heart disease -- caught a break when…

Women in authority appear to be more vulnerable to depression than their male counterparts, a study by sociologists in the…

The United Nations has recommended encouragement of the use of opioid substitutes as means to to curb the spread of…

Sharm al-Sheikh resort will host the first ever Arab pediatrics conference on 13 November, which will be chaired by Dr.

The shisha is a popular means of smoking in Egypt, but many shisha smokers believe it is somehow less harmful…

Health Minister Adel Al-Adawy has defended Egypt’s deal with US firm Gilead to secure the hepatitis C drug Sovaldi in…