“Ooh, that’s a big one,” Donald Trump said Monday as he signed an executive order – one of dozens during his first hours as president – to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization ...

The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health. It was established on 7 April 1948, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland ...

Nearly 200 countries are legally bound by the International Health Regulations (IHR) to operate a national disease ...

Climate change is already driving a global health emergency, with over 540 000 people dying from extreme heat each year and 1 in 12 hospitals worldwide at risk of climate-related shutdowns, warns a ...

Nigeria remains committed to halting all poliovirus transmission by 2030, investing in surveillance, routine immunisation, ...

President Donald Trump's decision to exit the World Health Organization means the U.N. agency is losing its biggest funder.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday declared a global public health emergency over the spread of the coronavirus, which has killed at least 171 people and infected more than 8,200 people ...

Health officials are now warning that the United States could face a similar situation as the disease spreads across North ...

Tedros noted that there is no evidence of any public health benefit from e-cigarettes, but growing evidence of their harm.

The World Health Organization said it was the first such detection in Europe since 2010 and reinforced the message that no ...