New York : The head of the UN health agency, WHO, has set out his urgent global health challenges for the next ten years – designated the “Decade of Action” by the UN Ge ...
New York : Countries are being asked to step up assistance to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) which is facing the world’s worst measles epidemic, with more than 6,000 dea ...
New York : The spread of polio internationally remains a global public health concern, experts meeting in Geneva have concluded.
Moscow/Sputnik: Public hospitals in Hong Kong have identified 21 cases suspected to be related to the recent pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan in Central China, the city’s Hospital Author ...
New York : At the start of the new year and new decade, the head of the United Nations health agency thanked “the brave health workers” around the globe and asked that the wor ...
New York : The world will need an additional nine million nurses and midwives to achieve the commitment of providing all people with access to health care by 2030, the World Health Organi ...
Baghdad/Xinhua: Two people died of swine flu, also known as influenza A/H1N1, and eight cases others were confirmed infected in Iraq's central province of Salahudin, a medical source ...
New York : Three African countries have halted recent polio outbreaks which indicates that the disease can be stopped elsewhere in the region, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on ...
New York: International action to drive down cholera led to a 60 per cent decrease in cases in 2018, compared with the previous year, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Thurs ...
- UN health agency signals tobacco might be reaching burn-out among men
- Low cost breast cancer medicine move good news for women: UN health agency
- One third of poorer countries face both undernutrition and obesity: WHO report
- ‘Air bridge’ vaccination operation begins for Ebola-hit communities in DR Congo
- Universal Health Coverage will ‘drive progress’ on 2030 Development Agenda
