Exercising won't help people avoid gaining weight if they consume foods containing monosodium glutamate, or MSG, as a flavor enhancer, researchers found.

A study done by scientists at the University of North Carolina's Chapel Hill School of Public Health found that people who consumed foods containing MSG were more likely than people who didn't use it to be overweight, even if the two groups exercised the same amount of time and consumed the same number of calories

A cheap drug developed to prevent brittle bone disease is touted as a breakthrough in the treatment of breast cancer, British and Finnish researchers say.

The drug, zoledronic acid, when used with a common chemotherapy drug, doxorubicin, stops tumors from growing and even keeps the cancer cells at bay after the termination of treatment, the Mail Online reported

Child survival in Asia and the Pacific has improved considerably deepening economic disparities have meant that the region's poor are often unable to get proper health care, the United Nations said.

The region's robust economic growth, the fastest in the world since 1990, has lifted millions out of poverty and led to numerous improvements, including in child and maternal health, according to a new report by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Low levels of Vitamin D may contribute to chronic pain among women and taking an extra daily dose of the sunshine vitamin may prove beneficial, studies suggest.

The same, however, does not hold true for men as they have different hormones, British researchers say in a study published in the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases

Indian women who are physically and sexually abused by their husbands have more risk of HIV infection than other wives, according to a new study.

This first large-scale national study to examine the relationship between intimate partner violence against wives and clinically verified HIV infection appears in the Aug. 13 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association