A recent study revealed that children who lead sedentary lives were six times more likely to develop heart complications when they enter their teenage years.

Researchers from the University of North Carolina derived their findings from an experiment involving almost 400 children aged between seven and 10. Led by Robert McMurray, the experts analyzed each child's overall physical condition, taking into consideration the body mass index, body fat percentage, height, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels

More than 60 people fell ill with norovirus infection Thursday at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland. Several people reported symptoms as they prepared to leave on flights from Washington after attending the medical convention.

Officials received calls about many traveler reporting sick Thursday evening at Reagan National Airport. The travelers had similar symptoms, including nausea. About 65 out of 350 people who attended the conference became ill but returned home safely

Brazil is considering calling on Cuba to send doctors and has mobilized its military to join the nation's public health workers in battling a deadly outbreak of the mosquito-borne viral illness, dengue fever, which has killed 67 people and infected more than 45,000.

For the past few years, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil has been at the center of a resurgence of the disease in South America

The World Health Organization is marking World Tuberculosis Day Monday (March 24), calling on individuals to work on the elimination of the roots of the tuberculosis epidemic to fight the disease.

An estimated 1.5 million people died from tuberculosis in 2006 and a report in the New England Journal of Medicine says. Africa may be facing the worst tuberculosis epidemic since the invention of antibiotics

Gene sequencing on flu viruses from two children who died amid a recent outbreak has revealed that no new flu strain has emerged, Hong Kong health authorities have revealed.

The Center for Health Protection of the Department of Health of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government said in a statement that the flu viruses from the two victims match the genetic makeup of viruses that are already circulating