The World Health Organization has added a mysterious disease to its already deadly roster of maladies like Ebola, Zika and SARS. “Disease...
Bhutan and the Maldives have become the first countries in their region to eliminate measles, according to the World Health Organization. This...
Health officials from over 180 countries who met in Geneva on Tuesday elected a new director-general for the World Health Organization in...
The World Health Organization is making the move to declassify transgender identity as a mental disorder on its international list of medical...
A report has been issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) that estimates environmental risk now causes 12.6 million deaths each year...
The sexual transmission of the Zika virus, responsible for an increasing amount of birth defects in the Americas, is thought to be...
While the mandatory surveillance periods for over 160 people in Liberia previously deemed at risk of contracting Ebola were wrapped up on...
There is nothing quite like a breath of fresh air, and for the inhabitants of Beijing, China’s capital, the fresh air has...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is being criticized by a panel of global health experts convened by the Harvard Global Health Institute...
While the world’s best amateur sailors are prepping themselves for a shot at gold in next summer’s Olympic Games in Rio de...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has expanded its list of essential medicines by adding several treatments for hepatitis C, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and a...
Response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa needs around $1 billion so it would not turn into a “human catastrophe”, the...
People infected with the deadly Ebola virus in four West African countries increased to 2,240 with 1,229 deaths, the World Health Organization...
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday endorsed the use of untested drugs to treat Ebola virus as ethical, hours after the...