Parents of at least 35 children who have died in a state-run hospital in northern India over the past three days have alleged that the fatalities were due to the lack of a sufficient oxygen supply in the children's ward

Ruth Pfau, a German physician and nun who devoted her life to the eradication of leprosy in Pakistan, has died at age 87

Yemen's national blood bank could shut down within a week after a medical aid charity said it would stop its two-year support

Destruction from Yemen's two-year civil war has turned country into incubator for cholera

Nepal has strengthened laws against demanding dowry payments and exiling menstruating women in an effort to improve women's safety and equality

A new study shows a correlation between rising temperatures and the rate of farmer suicides in India

UN agencies say nearly 80 percent of Yemeni children need immediate humanitarian assistance

The international Red Cross chief has made a rare visit to the front lines in Yemen, taking a dirt road to reach the besieged western city of Taiz devastated by more than two years of fighting

Australia says it is helping Sri Lanka to combat deadly a mosquito-borne disease dengue fever which has claimed 250 lives and infected nearly 100,000 so far this year in this Indian ocean island nation

Hundreds of thousands of American students study abroad each year, but there's little transparency when things go wrong and no one can say exactly how many are injured or die