More than half of COVID-19 patients discharged from hospital still experienced symptoms of breathlessness, fatigue, anxiety and depression for two to three months after their initial infection.

Contacts of people confirmed to have coronavirus should be properly quarantined, the World Health Organization said on Monday, as the pandemic surges in Europe and North America.

Living in a fast transition from rural to urban settings in Kupang has taken toll on the lives of young people in East Nusa Tenggara, one of Indonesia’s poorest provinces.

Bottle-fed babies may ingest more than a million pieces of microplastics each day, new research showed Monday highlighting the abundance of plastics in our food products.

The coronavirus remains active on human skin for nine hours, Japanese researchers have found, in a discovery they said showed the need for frequent hand washing to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

China's disease control authority said that contact with frozen food packaging contaminated by living new coronavirus could cause infection.

Vapes containing nicotine are more effective in helping people quit smoking than patches or gum, and safer than cigarettes, although more evidence is needed on their potential long-term impacts.

The number of Spanish children treated for poisoning after ingesting hand-sanitizing gels has rocketed as the product has become ubiquitous during the coronavirus pandemic.

The virus that causes COVID-19 can survive on banknotes, glass and stainless steel for up to 28 days, much longer than the flu virus, Australian researchers said on Monday, highlighting the need for cleaning and handwashing to combat the virus.

Transgender children cannot understand the dangers of drugs that block puberty so should only be able to take them if a court approves, a lawyer argued in a landmark case against Britain's lone youth gender identity clinic.

Since the beginning of the global pandemic, coughing and sneezing in public can feel similar to taking your kid to the hairdressers when they've got nits. 

An Indonesian psychologist is developing a website that will show up as a Google advertisement whenever an internet user runs a search using keywords related to suicide.

Roughly one in 10 people may have been infected with the coronavirus, leaving the vast majority of the world's population vulnerable to the COVID-19 disease it causes.

A combination of antiviral drugs usually used to treat HIV has no beneficial effect in patients hospitalized with COVID-19, confirming the initial results of a large-scale randomized trial of the drug.

Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice together with Briton Michael Houghton won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus.

Many people with an eating disorder experience what’s known as body distortions. This means that what they see in the mirror is different to what other people see when they look at them.

Members of the public in Japan will get vaccinated against the new coronavirus for free, according to a health ministry policy approved Friday by its advisory panel, in a bid to curb serious and fatal cases of infection.

Timothy Ray Brown, the first person known to have been cured of HIV when he had a unique type of bone marrow transplant, has died in California after relapsing with cancer, his partner said.

Abortion remains a sensitive and controversial issue in many parts of the world.

If you find yourself incapable of scrolling past that video of a cute kitten or one of a koala eating eucalyptus leaves without stopping to watch, don't worry, it's actually a good thing! 

Neighbors have a cup of coffee and a chat on the terrace, or meet up in the park or at the gym before heading their separate ways home. But these are no ordinary villagers. Their average age is 79 and they all share a debilitating disease: Alzheimer's.

At its most simple, the practice simply involves walking barefoot to tune into the energy of the Earth. If its proponents are to be believed, many mental and physical benefits await. 

More than 70 percent of schoolchildren in Japan feel stress as a result of the spread of the novel coronavirus, according to a survey by a state-run medical institute.

A single dose of Johnson & Johnson's experimental COVID-19 vaccine produced a strong immune response against the novel coronavirus in an early-to-mid stage clinical trial, according to interim results published on Friday.

Those who need early screening for Alzheimer's disease can use the E-Memory Screening (EMS) app launched by PT Eisai Indonesia, a subsidiary of Japan-based pharmaceutical company Eisai Co., Ltd., in collaboration with PERDOSSI. 

Getting old is a fact of life, yet there are many negative images and false beliefs surrounding elderly people.

Scientists are providing a fuller understanding of the essential role that sleep plays in brain health, identifying an abrupt transition at about 2.4 years of age when its primary purpose shifts from brain building to maintenance and repair.

Far from bringing about a new era of social solidarity, often-changing and unclear guidance around the coronavirus may push people to act more selfishly.

Concerted efforts and innovative financing for sexual and reproductive health and rights in Asia and the Pacific are critical as the pandemic rages on.

Intensive care medics were significantly less likely to have been infected with COVID-19 than cleaners and other healthcare workers in departments deemed lower risk, according to a study of several British hospitals at the peak of the pandemic.