That's the message in a study that suggests just four monthly text messages might spur health improvements for heart patients. The simple, heart-related advice led to substantial changes in blood...

Cardiac MRIs are now available at Mater Dei Hospital, the parliamentary secretariat for health said today, International Heart Day. In a statement, the government said that patients needing...

Odds have improved that many extremely premature U.S. infants will survive without major problems, although prospects remain poor for the smallest and youngest, born nearly four months too soon, a...

Federal officials need to do more to prevent for-profit stem cell clinics from exploiting and potentially injuring patients, according to an article published in a...

Aiming lower saves more lives when it comes to controlling high blood pressure, says a major new U.S. study that could spur doctors to more aggressively treat patients over 50. Patients who got...

Most Americans will experience at least one wrong or delayed diagnosis at some point in their lives, a blind spot in modern medicine that can have devastating consequences, says a new U.S. report that...

Malta has tipped the scales as the fattest population in the European Union according to the 2015 European health report published by the World Health Organisation (WHO). When non-EU countries in...

Would you like to know how to prevent a kidney failure? How genetics is being used to battle a host of uncommon diseases? About breast cancer research programmes at the University of Malta? Or have a...

PL party whip and former health minister Godfrey Farrugia – who is currently undergoing cancer-related treatment and is recovering from major surgery – said that he is thrilled to see that...

The European Food Safety Authority is to publish its conclusions on glyphosate use in the next few months and will take into account the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) study...