Even birth rates in Latin America and Caribbean, where families are typically large, are shrinking. U.S. is well below ...

It turns out that obesity may be much more complicated than we thought, with the condition potentially existing in up to 11 ...

Undernutrition impairs child growth and brain development, while obesity can led to type 2 diabetes, cancer and heart disease. According to the World Health Organisation, obesity is an epidemic ...

UnitedHealth Group is considering multiple bids for its Latin American operations, Reuters reported Monday. | The company has four nonbinding bids for its Banmédica subsidiary, which operates in ...

Latin America is facing an escalating education crisis as school dropout rates continue to climb, affecting not only the region's poorest countries but also those with historically strong public ...

The White House released an expansive report that blames a crisis of chronic disease in children on ultraprocessed foods, chemical exposures, lack of physical activity, stress and excessive use of ...

Latin American and Caribbean officials gathered in Beijing as their countries are seeking to reduce their dependence on the U.S. and move closer to China.

The World Bank’s study follows analysis by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which recently estimated the average direct price of crime and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean was 3.5 ...

InSight Crime highlights how criminal dynamics have shaped homicide rates in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last decade.

Global obesity rates are surging as people gain weight younger and faster than in the past A teenager who had a bariatric surgery in 2022 walks along the hallway of his school in the US in March 2023.

Hunger increased 6 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2016, a region with 42.5 million people suffering from malnutrition, while overweight and obesity also continued to grow, the United ...