China's use of the death penalty remains shrouded in secrecy and outpaces the rest of the world combined, activists say, even after the nation's execution rate fell sharply in recent years
A senior World Health Organization official says Japan should ban smoking in all public places if it wants to successfully promote tourism and host the Tokyo Olympics in 2020
A child diagnosed with thyroid cancer after the Fukushima nuclear accident is missing from government checkup records, an aid group says, raising questions about the thoroughness and transparency of the screenings
The World Health Organization said it and partners have shipped 3.5 million doses of yellow fever vaccine to Brazil to help the country stamp out its worst outbreak in years
Prince William, his wife, Kate, and Prince Harry are spearheading a campaign to encourage people to talk openly about mental health issues
Britain's High Court has denied a bid by a terminally ill man to challenge the law on assisted suicide, ruling that the issue was already considered in recent years and does not merit further analysis
A tribunal has found a doctor who misled other medics over the temperature of Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey is guilty of serious misconduct
A paralyzed Ohio man was able to feed himself for the first time in eight years, after doctors implanted sensors in his brain that sent signals to his arm
The World Health Organization says it's aiming to vaccinate more than 115 million children against polio across Africa next week, in its continuing bid to wipe out the crippling disease
China's trading partners are trying to persuade Beijing to scale back plans to require intensive inspections of food imports _ including low-risk items such as wine and chocolate
