Asia faces growing challenges from rising temperatures and increased rainfall that threaten to increase poverty, hunger and disease according to the World Health Organization's World Health Day report.

Although the threats from the effects of global warming are worldwide, people living in developing nations are more vulnerable because they have fewer resources to deal with the changes, officials say

A lack of political will remains the greatest obstacle to efforts to drastically reduce the number of people without access to basic sanitation and clean, running water, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday, calling on the international community to take firmer and faster steps to tackle the problem.

"If we take up the challenge, the positive impact will reverberate far beyond better access to clean water," the U.N. chief said in a message to mark World Water Day, which is celebrated on Saturday. This year's Day also coincides with the International Year of Sanitation

A happy marriage is good for your blood pressure, but a stressed one can be bad for your blood pressure, a preliminary study suggests. The study, published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine included 204 married people and 99 single men and women.

Participants were 20-68 years old, with an average age of 31. Most of the singles - 89 percent - had never been married and none was living with a partner. Married participants had been married for eight years, on average

Growth hormones in athletes does not increase their performance, according to a new research at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

The researchers summarized the gathered data from 44 previous articles on the effect of growth hormones on athletic performance

An estimated 10 million American baby boomers will develop Alzheimer's disease in their lifetime, affecting one in every eight baby boomers, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Alzheimer's Association.

Currently, at least 5.2 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's, including 200,000 to 250,000 people under age 65. It is estimated that there will be 500,000 new cases of the mind-wasting disease each year by 2010, and nearly one million new cases annually by 2050, the report estimates