“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 ...

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 ...

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For decades, the United States has held considerable power in determining the direction of global health policies and programs. President Donald Trump issued three executive orders on his first day in ...

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 ...

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

LONDON — The World Health Organization plans to officially back the use of weight-loss drugs to treat obesity in adults for the first time, a memo reviewed by Reuters on Thursday shows, marking a ...

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

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

There's a global shortage of radiologists. Now artificial intelligence is helping speed up the diagnosis of tuberculosis in ...