Swedish scientists have recently discovered a protein that could allegedly help fight off obesity. The discovery, if verified, could be considered one of the frontliners in the global cure for obesity, which many now consider a growing epidemic.

The protein, tartrate-resistant acide phosphates (TRAP), reportedly simulates the production of fat cells, identified as responsible for obesity, through the inflammation of fat tissues

About 1,500 delegates from 57 countries attending the World Health Organization's Global Health Workforce Alliance meeting in Kampala, Uganda agreed Thursday to a plan of action to solve the alarming worldwide shortage of health workers.

The agreement contained in the Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global Action sets out a series of steps to be taken by the 57 countries over the next 10 years. The steps the countries should take include training and recruiting sufficient health personnel and providing adequate incentives and better working conditions to ensure the retention of health workers

With over 1,100 children being infected with HIV daily, United Nations organizations have appealed to countries to bolster efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmissions (PMTCT) of the virus.

The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the UN World Health Organization (WHO), along with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, jointly called on authorities to step up protection for mothers and children at the end of a three-day global meeting on HIV/AIDS in Washington on Wednesday

The Indian Patent Office is set to issue a landmark ruling over the petition of a local drug manufacturer to allow cheaper generic drugs especially for cancer patients for export to poor countries under the "compulsory license" rule.

The case is attracting interest of giant drug manufacturers across the globe because it could open the floodgates for drug manufacturers to make copies of patented drugs

More than 2.3 billion people, or about 35 percent of the world's population, are at risk for contracting a deadly form of malaria, according to a study released by the Public Library of Science (PLoS) medical journal.

Malaria is a parasitic disease that occurs in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. About 500 million cases of malaria occur every year, and one million people, mostly children living in sub-Saharan Africa, die as a result. The parasite mainly responsible for these deaths-Plasmodium falciparum, is transmitted to people through the bites of infected Anopheles mosquitoes