Researchers in Japan say they’ve discovered “super” resistant mosquitoes in Asia. In a study published this week, they detail finding populations of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes—a common ...

Disease burden from most communicable, newborn, nutritional, and maternal diseases declined while ischemic heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, and road injuries are causing more premature ...

Every year, 1.8 million people in Europe and Central Asia die from avoidable deaths from noncommunicable diseases such as cancer, heart disease, chronic respiratory issues, and di ...

The open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases will publish an article emphasizing the rising burden of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in Central Asia on Tuesday, Sept. 27th.

Vector-borne diseases, particularly mosquito-borne diseases, are a major public health problem in Asia, with malaria, dengue fever and chikungunya at endemic levels in the region. Climate change ...

Gene therapy has shown great potential for the treatment of diseases that previously were either untreatable or treatable but not curable with conventional schemes. Recent progress in clinical ...

MANILA, Philippines – Asia-Pacific countries face serious challenges from “lifestyle” diseases and aging populations even as they overcome more traditional illnesses, the World Health ...

Chronic illnesses including cancer, heart disease and stroke caused 2.6 million deaths, or 60 percent of all deaths, in Southeast Asia in 2005, and that will balloon to 4.2 million by 2030 ...