Health
New York, May 18(Just Earth News): With about half of all clinical trial results unreported, some of the world's largest founders of medical research and international non-governmental organizations on Thursday agreed to adopt standards – based on United Nations health agency's recommendations – to register and publicly disclose results of all clinical trials they fund or support. more
1.2M adolescents' deaths mostly preventable with improved health services – UN agency

New York, May 16 (Just Earth News): The deaths of more than 1.2 million adolescents every year – about 3,000 per day – could have been prevented with good health services, education and ...

UN health agency deploying technical experts to site of Ebola outbreak in DR Congo

New York, May 16(Just Earth News): The United Nations health agency is deploying technical experts to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) amid an outbreak of Ebola virus near its nort ...

UN informed of Ebola virus outbreak in northern DR Congo

New York, May 13(Just Earth News): An Ebola outbreak in north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has killed at least one person, the United Nations World health Organization (WHO ...

UN-backed network brings together thousands to help tackle mosquito-borne diseases

New York, May 11(Just Earth News): In an effort to escalate the global fight against mosquito-borne diseases, the United Nations environment agency together with partners has launched a ne ...

Amid spreading cholera outbreak, UN migration agency aids South Sudanese

New York, May 10(Just Earth News): United Nations humanitarian workers are responding to a growing cholera outbreak in Ayod, the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan, one of multiple cou ...

UN health agency to examine lower-cost ‘biosimilar’ drugs to expand access to cancer treatment

New York, May 5 (Just Earth News): As a step towards making some of the most expensive treatments for cancer more widely available in low- and middle-income countries, the World Health Org ...

UN agency dispatches 3.5 million doses of yellow fever vaccine to counter outbreak in Brazil

New York, Apr 1(Just Earth News): In response to the yellow fever outbreak on-going in Brazil, some 3.5 million doses of vaccine from the emergency stockpile were deployed to the country thr ...

UN health agency highlights importance of measles vaccine amid Europe outbreak

New York, Mar 30 (Just Earth News): Hundreds of measles cases have been reported in Europe - where the disease was believed to be nearing elimination - leading the United Nations health agen ...

UN agencies, partners to launch polio vaccination campaign across Africa

New York, Mar 24 (Just Earth News): More than 116 million children are set to be immunized against polio starting on Saturdayin one of the largest of its kind synchronized vaccination campai ...