A study recently discovered that middle-aged women have been suffering three-times as many strokes in recent years, and experts are linking them to obesity.

Experts from the University of South Carolina revealed that women aged 35 to 54 experienced an increase in the possibility of experiencing stroke. In between 1988 and 1994, a woman's chance was 0.6 percent, but between 1999 and 2004 a woman's chance grew to 1.8 percent

The problem of overweight individuals and the health concerns that follow is something that is as big a threat as the climate change problem, according to the chairman of the International Obesity Task force.

At an annual meeting held in Boston, Professor Philip James of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said that the obesity problem was in need of a global commitment, and that international collaboration was needed to fight off the threat

The government of the Central African Republic (CAR) has called on the United Nations and others to help battle a meningitis epidemic amid a shortage of vaccines.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned that the epidemic ravaging CAR's northeast may kill up to one million people. An outbreak in the districts of Ouham, Ouham Pende and Nana-Grebizi caused numerous deaths in the first five weeks of this year

Tobacco use will kill 1 billion people by 2100, unless stricter regulations will be implemented by governments in poor nations, a report issued by the World Health Organization states.

Citing examples such as raising taxes and require health warnings, the 330-page report released by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the WHO, said that mandates that may decrease the number of smokers are not being fully implemented by any country

A string of detentions against HIV-positive Egyptians has brought condemnation upon Cairo by Human Rights Watch (HRW). The international rights group says that these arrests are "ignorant and unjust" and "endangers public health and human rights."

An Egyptian court for the "habitual practice of debauchery" convicted at least four men. HRW has called on the government to overturn the convictions and to free any person being held pending trial