Health / Medicine

By David Stanway and Martin Quin Pollard SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Shanghai achieved its long-awaited milestone of three consecutive days with no...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Lawmakers in Mexico's southwestern state of Guerrero voted on Tuesday to allow abortions, making it the...

By Gloria Dickie (Reuters) - Worsening outdoor air pollution and toxic lead poisoning have kept global deaths from environmental contamination...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's leftist coalition government on Tuesday approved a draft bill to reinforce abortion rights and make Spain...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia will drop requirements for people to mask up outdoors and for vaccinated travellers to show negative...

By Fatos Bytyci and Florion Goga TIRANA (Reuters) - A small company in Albania is struggling to meet demand and...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain is set to become the first European country to introduce paid leave for women who suffer...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - His doctors probably don't agree but Pope Francis thinks a shot of tequila just might help...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea has mobilised its military to distribute COVID medications and deployed more than 10,000...

LONDON (Reuters) -Measures taken in North Korea to fight the first reported COVID-19 outbreak could have "devastating" consequences for human...

LONDON (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights office's spokesperson on Tuesday urged Iran to halt the imminent execution of Swedish-Iranian...

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has sent aircraft to China to pick up medical supplies days after it confirmed its...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan said on Tuesday it would start conducting "test tourism" in the form of limited package tours...

By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -The cost of life-saving treatment for the most severely malnourished children is set to jump...

By Roxanne Liu and Ryan Woo (Reuters) - Plans by COVID-hit Chinese cities to exit or avoid lockdown are more...

By Julie Zhu and Engen Tham HONG KONG/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's worst COVID-19 outbreak has frayed nerves and stirred resentment...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's capital Beijing reported 43 new symptomatic coronavirus cases for May 16, up from 39 a day...

By Sunil Kataria NOIDA, India (Reuters) -For construction worker Yogendra Tundre, life at a building site on the outskirts of...

By SungHyuk An and Heejung Jung SEOUL (Reuters) - Standing tall in bright red hazmat suits, five North Korean health...

By Josh Smith and Joori Roh SEOUL (Reuters) -Leader Kim Jong Un has ordered North Korea's military to stabilise distribution...