An outbreak of avian influenza in North Korea has been contained, the United Nations said today, assuring the world and at the same time urging the country to continue surveillance on the affected

Pope Benedict XVI is known to be conservative on social issues, and no one expects his Roman Catholic Church to soften its opposition to birth control. Still, a rising number of Catholics, inside and

The latest study of obese and overweight Americans upends much of what we thought we knew about the health dangers of excess poundage. After decades of dire warnings to slim down if we want to

The United States spends far more on health care than other advanced countries. Yet we don't seem to receive more medical services. And we have lower life-expectancy and higher infant-mortality rates

In a bid to fill gaps in a global campaign against diseases afflicting the world's poor, European companies have followed the lead of counterparts in Japan and the United States in pledging more

Where's the American beef? More and more Japanese consumers and American officials here are posing this question - an awkward one for the Japanese government. Six months after American negotiators

Roche Holding, the world's biggest maker of cancer medicines and diagnostic tests, raised its forecast on Tuesday for pharmaceutical sales after first-quarter revenue rose 14 percent, lifted by

In his well-appointed, air-conditioned ultrasound clinic in South Delhi, Dr. Varun Dugal is doing his utmost to enforce a law that bans him from disclosing the sex of an unborn child to pregnant

A second Indonesian volcano sprang to life after a series of terrifying quakes that have underlined the precarious bond between the archipelago nation and the violent geological forces raging beneath

Anheuser-Busch, the largest U.S. brewer, has said that it will not buy Missouri rice if genetically modified, drug-making crops are allowed to be grown in the state. Anheuser, based in St. Louis,