India ranks second globally for children living with overweight and obesity, warns the World Obesity Atlas 2026. With 41 million affected and sharp rises projected by 2040, experts urge urgent policy ...

China has significantly tightened its national air quality standards, affirming its unwavering commitment to sustaining air quality improvements. While remarkably improving people's health, the new ...

China’s latest food and nutrition guidelines, published in 2025, set a target of reducing average daily added sugar intake to no more than 25 grammes per person by 2030. Chinese authorities estimate ...

Researchers summarize key insights from the world’s first comprehensive investigation into how a pandemic started.

US President Donald Trump said Iran’s air force and navy had been “knocked out” and that strikes targeted Iranian leadership. Israel struck a ...

One year ago, President Trump initiated the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization by executive order. It’s an irresponsible, uninformed, poorly thought-out and dangerous decision.

After pulling out of the World Health Organization, the Trump administration is proposing spending $2 billion a year to replicate the global disease surveillance and outbreak functions the United ...

The China-SCO Cooperation Center for Metabolic Diseases officially launched on Friday at Ruijin Hospital in Shanghai, aiming to further deepen health partnerships among members of the Shanghai ...

Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic, which had claimed over 7 million lives worldwide by April 2024 (figures are no longer being tracked), we are still debating the origins of this novel virus. The ...

A study shows harm in short-term exposures and proposes a particulate threshold that could influence air quality alerts.

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Daily aspirin use appears to offer no protection against colorectal cancer, and may have other adverse effects, according to a new review.