The World Health Organization chief on Monday urged countries to nail down a landmark global agreement on handling of future pandemics after they missed a hard deadline.
May 27, 2024
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The World Health Organization launched Sunday a new financing mechanism that aims to raise $7 billion of funds that can be deployed more quickly and flexibly.
May 27, 2024
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Access to effective antibiotics is essential to all health systems in the world. Antibiotics prolong lives, reduce disabilities, limit health care costs and enable other life-saving medical interventions such as surgery. ...
May 24, 2024
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Leading African scientists have issued a compelling call for more equitable research partnerships in a new paper published in Nature Medicine. The paper underscores the critical need for fair and collaborative research efforts ...
May 24, 2024
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Extreme weather events have hit parts of Africa relentlessly in the last three years, with tropical storms, floods and drought causing crises of hunger and displacement. They leave another deadly threat behind them: some ...
May 24, 2024
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Countries are trying to finalize a global agreement on how to prepare for and avert pandemics by Friday evening, after two years of negotiations triggered by the horrors of COVID-19.
May 24, 2024
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Scientists from EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have used Danish health registries to predict individual risks for the 20 most common types of cancer.
May 23, 2024
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Speaking at the World Health Assembly, authors of a new Lancet Series call for urgent global action on antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
May 23, 2024
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A deadly heat wave gripped large regions of Asia for weeks in April and May 2024. As temperatures climbed past 110°F (43.3°C) in India on May 7, campaigning politicians, local news announcers and voters waiting in long ...
May 23, 2024
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Teens from less affluent families in Europe are at greater risk of obesity, inactivity and poor diet, which are risk factors for cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes, the WHO said Thursday.
May 23, 2024
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