A Japanese university and a medical venture said Thursday a smartphone app they have developed has proved effective in helping people stay away from smoking.

The paper, which was published in JAMA Psychiatry on Wednesday, estimated a 13 percent spike in suicides among 10 to 19-year-olds between April and June of 2017, with a higher proportion among females.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has removed transgenderism from its list of mental disorders and activists welcome the move.

The World Health Organization has for the first time recognized "burn-out" in its International Classification of Diseases (ICD), which is widely used as a benchmark for diagnosis and health insurers.

For months, Alia Ali endured the din of fighting in Iraq's second city Mosul. Then a missile slammed into her home, killing her husband and her hearing.

New research from the US suggests that self-monitoring weight on a daily basis can help people maintain a healthy weight, even during typically indulgent times such as the holiday season.

Former business student Greg used to resort to drink and drugs to get to sleep -- a common story at British universities struggling to adapt to growing concerns about student mental health problems.

Seeing scenes from Spider-Man alone is said to be able to decrease participants' fear levels by 20 percent.

Swiss drugmaker Novartis on Friday won US approval for its gene therapy Zolgensma for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the leading genetic cause of death in infants, and priced the one-time treatment at a record $2.125 million.

Unlike most developed countries, which place the majority of children who are abused, neglected, or can't live with their parents for other reasons in foster homes, Japan puts more than 80% of the 38,000 such children in residential-care facilities, according to government figures.

The US opioid crisis is taking a toll on children of users as a study published on Wednesday showed they were more likely to attempt suicide.

Doubts about vaccines have spread across social media like a disease and false information that "kills people" should be taken down by the companies running digital platforms.

Almost half of the people who followed Juul Labs Inc on Twitter last year were not old enough to legally purchase e-cigarettes in the United States.

Everyone struggles with something. We all do our best to get by. But sometimes we need help—which we all know comes in various forms and is different for everybody. 

A study said penis enlargement surgery should only be considered a last choice for men who question their size.

The "blue light" in LED lighting can damage the eye's retina and disturb natural sleep rhythms, France's government-run health watchdog said this week.

A Czech teacher survived more than 34 years with a heart transplant, making him one of the longest living transplant patients.

In 2009, Greece banned smoking in indoor public places, instituted stiff fines and created a complaints hotline. However, in practice, the law is still rarely enforced.

Titled 'Press Play', the webcomic tells the story of a man struggling to escape the abyss of depression. 

A 24 year-old Norwegian woman died this week of rabies, after she was bitten by a puppy she rescued while on vacation in the Philippines, her family announced.

Britain's young royals, brothers Prince William and Prince Harry and their wives Kate and Meghan, launched a new phone messaging service to help people suffering a mental health crisis.

Death rates due to heart failure are increasing, and this increase is most prominent among younger adults under 65, considered premature death, said a study from Northwestern Medicine.

Global rates of obesity among people who live in the countryside are rising faster than those among city dwellers, in part due to greater access in urban areas to healthier foods and places to exercise.

No one really likes crying but a good cry is actually favorable for everyone.

The active ingredients of commonly-used sunscreens end up in the bloodstream at much higher levels than current US guidelines from health regulators and warrant further safety studies, according to a small study conducted by U.S. Food and Drug Administration researchers and published on Monday.

The era of doctors prescribing patients powerful antibiotics while they wait for lab reports could soon be numbered, with a new device returning results within minutes instead of days.

A study revealed that a majority of people sleeping in a blue bedroom woke up happy and refreshed.

The National Cannabis Survey, which covered the first quarter of this year and was released Thursday, found that 18 percent of Canadians aged 15 or older say they have tried marijuana, compared to 14 percent in the same period of last year, Statistics Canada reported.

HIV-suppressing medication can make the AIDS virus "untransmittable" even among couples who have sex without using condoms, new research showed Friday.

The truth may be that our preferences for caffeine or alcoholic beverages derive not so much from the way they taste but how they make us feel, according to a new study.