Fake medicines are becoming a growing problem, according to the World Health Organization. A few examples that the organization has identified are...
The World Health Organization has urged farmers to cut down on using antibiotics to treat pigs, chickens and cattle raised for meat,...
Bhutan and the Maldives have become the first countries in their region to eliminate measles, according to the World Health Organization. This...
Health officials from over 180 countries who met in Geneva on Tuesday elected a new director-general for the World Health Organization in...
The World Health Organization is under fire, after a report stated that the agency spends millions of dollars on travel costs –...
The verdict is in: depression is now the number one cause of poor health and disability worldwide, according to the World Health...
The World Health Organization released a list of twelve kinds of bacteria the organization deemed “priorities” in need of new antibiotics –...
Officials at the National Institutes of Health will be questioned by a congressional committee on the funding of a controversial World Health...
Dr. Donald Anderson, the man behind one of the world’s greatest health achievements, passed away on Friday in Towson, Maryland at the...
Two children were paralyzed by the first cases of wild poliovirus in over two years in Borno, Nigeria, prompting a call for...
Discussion on the Zika virus doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon, especially with the upcoming Summer Olympics to be held...
The World Health Organization’s Emergency Committee on Zika will be meeting in the next few weeks to discuss the risks and concerns...
A report has been issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) that estimates environmental risk now causes 12.6 million deaths each year...
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan has said that pervasive misunderstanding about the role of antibiotics has caused a global health crisis and could, according...
A recent surge in Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) has officials in Saudi Arabia worried because of the upcoming Hajj in September....