World Health Organization

Cancer surgeon Dr. Andre Ilbawi says he's haunted by the memory of a patient in Kenya whose sufferin...

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Just over a week after the fragile truce between Israel and Hamas collapsed, the World Health Organi...

Earlier this week, aid workers with the U.S.-based humanitarian organization Anera delivered about 4...

Fewer children around the world missed receiving routine vaccinations in 2022 compared to the year b...

The announcement this week by a World Health Organization agency that the artificial sweetener aspar...

Jonathan and his twin brother were born in Sierra Leone with clubfeet. His twin died as a baby, and ...

We sent journalist Thomas Bwire to interview residents of Kibera, often referred to as the biggest s...

The World Health Organization has lifted the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC...

"What gets measured gets done." It's an expression often cited by global health advocates, notes Wor...

What should the World Health Organization add to its agenda? That's a question to ponder as WHO mark...

The World Health Organization is asking Chinese officials to release data that may show a link betwe...

The World Health Organization is calling on officials in China to release data that may show a link ...

Three years ago, on March 11, 2020, COVID-19 was officially designated a pandemic by the World Healt...

The World Health Organization convened an emergency meeting earlier this week, just a day after Equa...

DUBAI — In a dusty, industrial corner of Dubai, far from the city's gleaming skyscrapers and marbled...

The Nipah virus is on the World Health Organization's short list of diseases that have pandemic pote...

Just three years ago, on Jan. 30, 2020, the head of the World Health Organization made a landmark de...

The idea of deadly fungi might conjure up images of poisonous red mushroom caps with distinctive whi...

After the World Health Organization linked Indian-made cough syrup to acute kidney failure, leading ...