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US opposes plans to strengthen World Health Organization

BRUSSELS: The United States, the World Health Organization's top donor, is resisting proposals to make the agency more independent, four officials involved in the...

WHO issues new clinical advice on treating COVID-19 patients

WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told a U.N. briefing in Geneva that a WHO-led team of independent experts

Five simple ways to avoid influenza during winter

World Health Organization has issued some precautionary measures to avoid influenza during winter

DRAP to start inspection of pharmaceutical companies

Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan has decided to start the inspection of pharmaceutical companies in order to ensure the quality of medicines.

Congo’s former health minister arrested for ’embezzling Ebola funds’

Former DR Congo health minister Oly Ilunga has been arrested over allegations he embezzled public funds to tackle the Ebola epidemic

Vaccines group seeks $7.4 billion to save up to 8 million lives

GAVI, is backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization (WHO), donor governments and others, funds immunization programs for poor nations that cannot afford to buy vaccines

Microplastics in drinking water not a health risk for now: WHO

WHO says that microplastics larger than 150 micrometres are not likely to be absorbed by the human body.

WHO recognises ‘burn-out’ as medical condition

The decision could help put to rest decades of debate among experts over how to define burnout, and whether it should be considered a medical condition.

Measles cases rise 30 percent worldwide: UN

Measles cases worldwide jumped more than 30 percent last year compared to 2016, with increases recorded in wealthy European countries like Germany where vaccination...

Faltering malaria fight should refocus on high-risk countries, says WHO

LONDON: Global health authorities need to counter a worrying lull in the fight against malaria by focusing their efforts on the near-dozen mostly African...

Environmental risks kill 1.7mn kids under five a year: WHO

GENEVA: More than one in four deaths in children under five are linked to polluted environments, according to two new World Health Organization reports published...

Smoking costs $1 trillion, soon to kill 8 million a year: study

GENEVA: Smoking costs the global economy more than $1 trillion a year, and will kill one third more people by 2030 than it does...

World AIDS Day 2016 being observed today

The annual World AIDS Day is being marked on Thursday (today) in order to raise awareness of the disorder, which affects the immune system. World...

World Diabetes Day being observed today

World Diabetes Day is being observed across the world today. World Diabetes Day was first observed in 1991 by International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the...

Sania Nishtar outlines her vision for WHO at Chatham House

LONDON: Dr Sania Nishtar, Pakistan’s candidate for the Director General World Health Organization (WHO), has presented her vision and plan for the WHO at...

WHO chief going to the Olympics, says Zika risk low

The risk of Zika virus infections at the Olympic Games is both low and manageable, the chief of the World Health Organization said on Friday, a week before the event kicks off in Rio de Janeiro.

Pricing dispute hits supply of TB drugs in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Swiss pharmaceuticals firm Novartis AG said it has stopped making tuberculosis drugs in Pakistan in a dispute over pricing, prompting fears of a health crisis due to a shortage of drugs in a country with the world's fifth-highest TB rates.

Study shows durable benefits of early HIV treatment

Early treatment of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) can dramatically reduce the odds of passing the deadly disease on to others, and the protection persists for years, according to final results from a major study that looked at the timing of antiretroviral therapy, or ART.

WHO says $122 million needed for global response to Zika virus

LONDON: Almost $122 million is needed to prevent and manage the medical complications of the Zika virus spreading throughout the Americas and causing birth defects in babies, the World Health Organization said on Friday.

Guinea declared free of active Ebola transmission: WHO

Guinea has reached the end of active Ebola virus transmission, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, the second such declaration from the country at the epicenter of the world's worst outbreak of the disease.
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