Health Article

News Hour: Improvements in sanitation, immunizations, indoor air quality and nutrition have enabled children in poor countries to live longer over the past 25 years, according to a new scientific analysis of more than 300 diseases...

News Hour: Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of their birth, their current age and other demographic factors including sex.Although healthy life...

News Hour: High blood pressure, smoking, high blood sugar, high body mass index, and childhood undernutrition were the world’s leading risk factors for premature death and ill health in 2015. Since 1990, there have been particularly...

News Hour: The world population has gained more than a decade of life expectancy since 1980, rising to 69.0 years in men and 74.8 years in women in 2015. An important contributor to this has been...

News Hour: Woman who dies in childbirth, dozens more suffer injury, infection or disease. The majority of maternal deaths are due to haemorrhage, infection, unsafe abortion, and eclampsia (very high blood pressure leading to seizures), or...

News Hour: Worldwide, the number of deaths in children under the age of 5 has more than halved from 12.1 million in 1990 to 5.8 million in 2015, and the gap between groups of countries with...

News Hour: Cash incentives helped increase exercise levels at 6 months, but not enough to benefit health, and 90% of participants stopped using the devices once incentives stopped Regularly using an activity tracker (or pedometer) that...

News Hour: Children who do not meet their developmental potential may forfeit up to a quarter of adult earnings, and cost some low and middle income countries as much as twice their national expenditure on health....

News Hour: It is estimated that between 250,000 and 600,000 indigenous people live in the Congolese rainforest. The forest people, as they are collectively known, live as hunter/gatherers and trade with neighbouring farms. Many have never...

News Hour: No one expected first-time Walk organiser the Midlands Diabetes Interest Group to gather more than 5,000 people at their very first Walk. How did they do it? David Leboho, Campaign Responsible for Midlands Diabetes...