The US president might learn that starting wars is much easier than ending them, writes the BBC's international editor.

Florence Nightingale never set foot in India. Yet from a sickbed in London, armed with mortality data and an unstoppable pen, she rewrote the country's sanitary code, slashed soldier death rates from ...

The Lees — and their hounds — were renowned for outfitting jaguar hunts south of the border. I was just wrapping up my trip ...

A Grim Reality in 1859 In the year 1859, a staggering sixty-nine out of every thousand British soldiers stationed in India succumbed to illness—not due to combat, but from cholera, dysentery, and ...

Captain James Cook is widely renowned as an explorer, pioneering navigator and preventer of scurvy. Glyn Williams investigates the standards he set in maritime exploration. The three major voyages of ...

Experts warn that the risks will extend beyond immediate injuries, displacement, and deaths, based on scientific prediction and evidence from previous disasters. Floodwaters are likely to seep into ...

Kokum and amla juice benefits are many but their cooling properties are what makes them a popular choice. Here is how their nutritional profile plays a role in their individual cooling properties.

The Ministry of Health has already announced an ongoing flu outbreak associated with the long rainy season. But waterborne and vector-borne diseases pose an even greater threat. Aggrey Aluso, Director ...

ETVAX is the first vaccine that offers significant protection against pathogenic E. coli in children ...

Ingram's Water & Air Equipment reports that water filtration systems improve water quality by removing harmful contaminants, ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a rare mutation in the MET gene that can directly cause metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease. The mutation disrupts the liver’s ability to ...

Most people know only two things about the appendix: You don’t need it – and if it bursts, you need surgery fast. That basic ...