In a new set of guidelines, the World Health Organization said that infants under 1 year old should not be exposed to electronic screens and that children between the ages of 2 and 4 should not have more than one hour of “sedentary screen time” each day.
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Many women who’ve just given birth experience some type of mental disorder. The suffering is sometimes so acute they commit suicide. Now, the first drug to specifically treat postpartum depression, has just hit the market in the U.S.
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Almost half of Pakistani children under the age of five suffer from stunted growth due to chronic malnutrition. Neither the body nor brains of these children develop as they normally should prompting health experts there to call for greater efforts at intervention. Our correspondent Danial Khan has more from Islamabad.
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Food is by and large one of the world’s largest industries, and over the past decade, the resources, land and energy needed to get food on our plates have become vast, and become a burden on the planet.
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Loneliness is on the rise and has become an international health concern. If prolonged, it can have dire consequences on a person’s health.
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The world needs millions more acres of farmable land by 2050 and the United Nation’s Food agency says more than half of that is in Brazil. The South American country is already one of the world’s biggest food producers, and its importance is rising.
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The popularity of breastfeeding is growing in the United States thanks in part to global guideline, that the Trump administration reportedly tried to water down earlier this year. Many women still face challenges trying to maintain a regimen.
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The Trump administration is resisting the World Health Organization’s effort to sharply limit antibiotic use in farm animals, a move intended to help preserve the drugs’ effectiveness.
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Published in April, the study involved over 200 scientists and genetic data from 135,000 people reportedly with depression and nearly 350,000 healthy people across several countries has vastly expanded our knowledge of the genetic factors that increase risk of depression.
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The World Health Organization estimates it kills 7.5 million people per year and many of those deaths are preventable. In the U.S. leading health organizations have just lowered their blood pressure guidelines in the hopes of saving more lives.
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CGTN America is proud to announce receiving a 2018 Gracie Award for ‘Forgotten Mothers’ – a Global Business story focusing on the dramatic increase of maternal deaths in the United States.
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More than two million people every year get ill in the US because of infections that are resistant to antibiotics.
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For decades, the Philippines has managed to dodge the HIV epidemic, but it’s now spreading fast in the country, particularly among males having sex with males. As Barnaby Lo reports, it’s got the highest rate of new infections in the Asia Pacific region.
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Thirty years ago, an HIV/AIDS diagnosis was a death sentence. This year, the medical community confirmed that, if HIV in your blood is undetectable, you can’t transmit it. Implications for more than 36 million HIV-positive people worldwide are great.
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Healthcare is a lucrative business and there’s one sector looking to get in on the act – the tech industry. As VR matures, it’s being used more and more to treat both psychological and physical pain. CGTN’s Phil Lavelle reports.
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If you were at risk for a life threatening disease like cancer you’d want to know as early as possible so you could treat and hopefully erradicate the disease. New technology coming out of Israel may help. for patients, it’s as easy as taking a routine blood test.
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In the United States, women are three times more likely than Canadians and six times more likely than Scandinavians to die during the ‘maternal period.’
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Kuli Kuli began with a moringa energy bar, which turned out to be one of the most popular food campaigns ever on crowdfunding site Indiegogo.
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Like many parents Alec Bourgeois wants to feed his kids healthy food, but most food labels on food in the United States don’t reveal how much sugar has been added to an item.
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Nutritional supplements have been pouring out profits over the last few years. It’s an estimated $30 billion a year industry. But studies suggest they don’t actually improve our health, and some may even have adverse effects.
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According to Buenos Aires University, Argentina has more psychologists per capita in the world.
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Eating disorders are becoming a serious concern in Japan—something not many Japanese are aware of.
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As For health and beauty concerns, some are turning to doctors for help.
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Nearly half of all the food America produces ends up uneaten and thrown away. Now, a small but growing number of companies are trying to change the game by turning waste into wealth.
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Reducing food waste is a popular theme these days. According to recent studies, about 40 percent of the food purchased in the United States gets tossed, leading to wasted time, energy and resources for both cook and farmer.
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The World Health Organization projects that 163,000 Liberians are at risk of severe mental illness. Some 17,000 people were infected and lived to tell about it.
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According to the Center for Disease Control, about 1 percent of the world’s population has autism spectrum disorder and one in 160 children are on the spectrum.
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This month’s segment of “Inside and Out” looks at getting back to the basics of food.
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Faced with the exorbitant costs of in vitro fertilization, many couples hoping to conceive are turning to Argentina as a less-expensive and less-restrictive option. CCTV America’s Joel Richards reports from Buenos Aires.
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Could you really eat to conceive? Find out here.
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Last September, the United Nations set new targets to keep more moms and newborn babies alive.
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Here’s one of my favorite summer salads that expectant mothers will be able to keep down!
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Martial arts star Daniel Wu trains often with Matt Lucas who runs a yoga and martial arts studio in Oakland, California.
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Chinese-American actor and martial artist Daniel Wu has performed in more than 60 films in Asia. His new U.S. show “Into the Badlands” was recently renewed, and he has a huge role in the film “Warcraft” that opens in theaters today.
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CCTV America’s correspondent in Mexico, Franc Contreras, brings us an extraordinary, first person account of his own quintuple bypass heart surgery. A warning, this story contains come graphic images of surgery.
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CCTV America’s Franc Contreras recently underwent a multiple bypass heart surgery. Watch his personal account and follow along as he answers questions about the experience in this Q&A.
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CCTV America’s Franc Contreras interviewed best-selling author and physician Joel Fuhrman and asked him one more question about what research backs up his Nutritrian diet and how the diet works. Here’s his response:
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One of my favorite breakfast meals is huevos rancheros. But I’m biased — I grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where its a breakfast staple. A more heart-healthy version of this dish retains all the flavors of huevos, but removes a the cholesterol found in eggs.
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