Obesity could overtake smoking as the chief avoidable cause of cancer-related deaths, the world's largest independent funder of cancer research said Friday.

The food security of around 124 million people worldwide was under acute threat at the end of last year, mostly because of worsening conflicts and drought, the U.N. and EU said Thursday.

In the framework of its “continuous support” to the health sector in Lebanon, the European Union launched Wednesday the project "Healthy Family, Peaceful House," in al-Marj in the Bekaa.

Venezuela's opposition-dominated Congress said Monday the country's deepening economic crisis has left hospitals lacking even the most basic medicines and surgical materials.

In a remote Pakistani village surrounded by lush green hills, Mohammad Fayyaz brings his two-year-old son to a clinic so that a female doctor sitting hundreds of kilometers away can examine him.

It is a high-stakes gamble with thousands of human lives on the line.

Joseph Ralaiharo has lived cut off from society in a remote village in central Madagascar for more than half a century.

A health scare over a pioneering dengue vaccine is partly to blame for a decline in child immunization and a deadly measles outbreak in the Philippines, a senior health official said Tuesday.

A South African court has fined a self-styled prophet who sprayed his followers in the face with insecticide as a supposed cure for illness.

More than 36,000 animals have been slaughtered after an outbreak of highly contagious bird flu was detected at a Dutch poultry farm, the agriculture ministry said on Monday.