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Coronavirus: WHO Labels Outbreak as A Pandemic

The World Health Organization (WHO) has labeled the coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic. WHO chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said…

5 years ago

WHO: Untested Ebola drugs can be used

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that untested drugs can be used to treat patients infected with the Ebola…

10 years ago

Ebola outbreak: WHO declares international health emergency

The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak an international health emergency. WHO officials said a coordinated international response…

10 years ago

WHO warns over international spread of polio

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned over the spread of polio as the disease becomes an international public health…

11 years ago

New WHO guidelines recommend earlier HIV/AIDS treatment

The new World Health Organization guidelines for HIV treatment could see millions more people in developing countries getting life-saving medicine.…

11 years ago

Michael Douglas throat cancer not caused by HPV infection

Michael Douglas did not say he developed throat cancer because of a HPV infection, his publicist has said. Michael Douglas,…

11 years ago

Global consensus on death diagnosis urged at European meeting of anaesthetists

Two leading doctors at an European meeting of anaesthetists urged for an international agreement on when and how death is…

11 years ago

Novel coronavirus kills Tunisian man

A Tunisian man has died of the novel coronavirus (NCoV), in what is believed to be the first such case…

11 years ago

DSM-5: Controversial updates to mental health manual to be published

DSM-5, an update to one of the most important manuals in mental health - known as the bible of psychiatry…

11 years ago

New coronavirus can be passed between people in close contact, says WHO

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), it appears likely that the new coronavirus (NCoV) can be passed between people…

11 years ago

China bird flu outbreak: First case of H7N9 detected in Beijing

Chinese authorities have reported the first case of H7N9 "bird flu" in Beijing after a 7-year-old girl has been hospitalized…

12 years ago

Vladimir Putin signs law banning smoking in public

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a tough new bill into law banning smoking in public. Under the new legislation, smoking…

12 years ago

Swine flu infected one in five people during first year of pandemic in 2009

At least one in five people, including half of schoolchildren, were infected with swine flu during the first year of…

12 years ago

Pakistan polio campaign suspended following three more killings

The United Nations has suspended an anti-polio campaign in Pakistan after three more health workers died in the latest of…

12 years ago

You need to eat less rather than exercise to keep you thin, a new study finds

A new research has contradicted the idea that exercise is more important than diet in the fight against obesity. A…

12 years ago

More effective tuberculosis treatment hope

A new study showed three drugs given in combination killed more than 99% of tuberculosis bacteria after two weeks of…

12 years ago

Drug-resistant HIV increasing in parts of sub-Saharan Africa over the last decade

Experts writing in the Lancet have explained that drug-resistant HIV has been increasing in parts of sub-Saharan Africa over the…

12 years ago

Diesel fumes do cause cancer, say WHO experts

Diesel engines exhaust fumes do cause cancer, a panel of experts working for the World Health Organization says. It concluded…

12 years ago

Vietnam seeks international help as mystery skin disease killed 19 people

Vietnam plans to ask for international help to find out what is causing a skin infection that has already killed…

13 years ago

WHO experts delay the decision on publishing H5N1 bird flu virus full work

World Health Organization experts have delayed a decision on whether controversial research into the H5N1 bird flu virus should be…

13 years ago

Research on mutant bird flu stopped amid fears of bioterrorism

Scientists who created a mutant bird flu, a potentially more deadly strain, have temporarily stopped their research amid fears of…

13 years ago