Lebanon Health News

Gratitude is one of the most important virtues. A person who is grateful for everything and for anything is a person that has it all. Gratefulness is a second pleasure; it is an echo of joy to the joy felt....

Dr. Cara Peggs is worried there may come a day when she doesn't feel completely comfortable with her family members going to the doctor. "It takes many years of education and is a hard lifestyle with many nights, weekends and...

Partial smoking bans in Lebanon have had some success but are undermined by lack of enforcement and wide acceptance of public smoking, a study by the American University of Beirut (AUB) has found. Researchers at the university’s Department of Health Behavior...

A conference to mark World Diabetes Day was held on Saturday at the Lebanese University in Beirut to raise awareness about the disease and help prevent it. The conference dubbed “Diabetes Education and Prevention” was organized by the Health Ministry and...

In an interview with An-Nahar newspaper on Tuesday, Health Minister Mohammad Jawad Khalifeh said there is yet to be vaccines for the A(H1N1) virus, or the swine flu, in Lebanon, adding that any report claiming otherwise is unfounded and “irresponsible.”...