The European Commission has approved four genetically modified crops for use in the food and animal feed industries. These are two genetically modified lines of cotton, one line each of corn and soybeans.

Children who get more than 30 percent of their daily energy from ultra-processed foods, such as soda drinks, packaged snacks, and sweetened breakfast cereals, have a nearly fourfold risk of developing asthma in their early school years.

A new global analysis by Tulane University found that high blood pressure remains a stubborn and deadly silent epidemic whose burden on public health systems has only increased in the past 20 years, particularly in countries least equipped to address it.

World Health Organization member states say they have extended talks on pathogen-sharing rules, casting doubt on when a pandemic treaty adopted last year can come into effect.

Canada’s military reprimanded soldiers after they raised concerns about an order to monitor Canadians' online activity during the COVID-19 pandemic, CBC News has learned.

A new global analysis has revealed that nearly a third of people who develop one of 17 major cancers may die before receiving an official cancer diagnosis. The danger is not only that cancer is rising worldwide; millions of cases may never enter the medical record at all.