Nearly one third of American men leave the public restrooms without washing up their hands, a new observational study has revealed. When it comes to washing with soap and water, 88 percent of women do lather up.

Reporting their latest findings Monday at a meeting of infectious disease scientists, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and The Soap and Detergent Association (SDA), said nearly 77 percent of men and women washed their hands in public restrooms - a six percent decline from a similar study conducted in 2005

A federal judge struck down a proposed city health regulation that would have required fast-food restaurants to post calorie content on menus on Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Richard J. Holwell said the proposed rule conflicted with federal law, adding that a rewriting of the rule to apply to more restaurants might be legal

Doctors in Texas have noticed a spike in a lesser-known antibiotic-resistant bacteria striking otherwise healthy kids. Researchers are seeing the potentially deadly staph infection known as Community Acquired-Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) emerging in epidemic proportions across the country.

South Texas was one of the first regions of the country to experience CA-MRSA and has since become a hot bed for the infection

A joint report by the World Bank and the Philippines Department of Environment and Natural Resources indicates that air pollution causes nearly 5,000 premature deaths in the capital Manila annually because of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.

The study showed that of the urban cities across the Philippines, Metro Manila has the largest "health burden" from air pollution

As the epidemic of a mysterious illness has continued to afflict people in the province of Kasai Occidental in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, experts from United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) arrived in the country.

The "unknown illness" with symptoms of high fever, vomiting, headache and diarrhea claimed a nurse at local hospital Thursday. WHO said the disease has a high mortality rate and children are particularly vulnerable to the infection