BANGKOK — One of the more ambitious targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the commitment to end preventable deaths of newborns and children over the next decade.

Mosquitoes may be tiny, but they have a powerful bite.

Vitamin D helps our bodies regulate levels of calcium and phosphate — nutrients that keep bones, teeth and muscles healthy.Often, sunlight on our skin can be enough to enable us to produce all the vitamin D we need.

A virus that infects your brain, makes you want to bite things, and is almost always fatal after symptoms appear probably sounds like something from a zombie movie.But this has been the modus operandi of rabies at least since 2300 BC, when it was described in the Eshuma Code

The world’s population is getting bigger, and older.

Before the horrors of the latest Ebola outbreak in West Africa could even begin to fade from our minds, the Zika virus emerged as a major global health risk, and is now occupying researchers and doctors in South America, Central America and the Caribbean.Yet the death toll from a