Meera Senthilingam

A woman in Minnesota lost part of her vision and inadvertently put her entire household at risk of mercury poisoning, most likely from using beauty creams.

Skin whitening is a multi-billion-dollar industry and predominantly targets women of color in every region of the world. Find out more about the global market, the culture of colorism promoting it, the effect these products can have on your health and the industry behind it all.

The Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine provides less protection in cancer patients than healthy individuals following a single dose, a new real-world study in the UK suggests, raising questions about whether the UK’s strategy to delay second doses should apply to such patients.

Foxxy Angel has been a sex worker in the Netherlands for 15 years and still loves what she does. However, though the profession is legal, sex workers across the country are fighting for change, matching a global sentiment for the job to recognized as just that: a job.

South Korea has banned coffee sales on school premises in a bid to improve the health of its increasingly stressed students.

Eating just the right amount of carbohydrates is the best option for a healthy lifespan, a new study suggests. Less than 40% and over 70% of your calories coming from carbs showed the greatest risk of an early death.

Among scourges like malaria, diabetes and cancer, AIDS is the only major epidemic that could be ended “in our lifetime,” if only old-fashioned attitudes and society could be changed, Elton John said Tuesday.

In certain areas of sub-Saharan Africa, nearly one in four blood bank supplies comes from donors infected with malaria parasites, a study suggests.

At least three out of five of people who try a cigarette end up smoking them daily, a study finds. Experts believe efforts to prevent experimenting should be prioritized.

When she was 18, Jenipher Mukite’s world was turned upside down: Her mother revealed that she had been living with HIV, and her family would soon find out they were, too.

Whether it’s the streets of London, New Delhi, Washington or Cape Town, the issue of sexual harassment is independent of country and culture. This year, one thing has been made clear -- it’s everywhere.

Meat substitutes and other vegetarian and vegan products are helping Germans increasingly drop meat from their diets -- but are such products the way forward for health?

When someone is HIV positive, taking antiretroviral drugs can pretty much zero their chance of spreading HIV to others.

A 9-year-old, diagnosed with HIV soon after birth, was given antiretroviral drugs for just 40 weeks and has been controlling the virus on his own ever since.

Four former soccer players who had advanced forms of dementia were also found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, according to a study published Tuesday.