The World Health Organization (WHO) has labeled the coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic. WHO chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that untested drugs can be used to treat patients infected with the Ebola…
The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak an international health emergency. WHO officials said a coordinated international response…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned over the spread of polio as the disease becomes an international public health…
The new World Health Organization guidelines for HIV treatment could see millions more people in developing countries getting life-saving medicine.…
Michael Douglas did not say he developed throat cancer because of a HPV infection, his publicist has said. Michael Douglas,…
Two leading doctors at an European meeting of anaesthetists urged for an international agreement on when and how death is…
A Tunisian man has died of the novel coronavirus (NCoV), in what is believed to be the first such case…
DSM-5, an update to one of the most important manuals in mental health - known as the bible of psychiatry…
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), it appears likely that the new coronavirus (NCoV) can be passed between people…
Chinese authorities have reported the first case of H7N9 "bird flu" in Beijing after a 7-year-old girl has been hospitalized…
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a tough new bill into law banning smoking in public. Under the new legislation, smoking…
At least one in five people, including half of schoolchildren, were infected with swine flu during the first year of…
The United Nations has suspended an anti-polio campaign in Pakistan after three more health workers died in the latest of…
A new research has contradicted the idea that exercise is more important than diet in the fight against obesity. A…
A new study showed three drugs given in combination killed more than 99% of tuberculosis bacteria after two weeks of…
Experts writing in the Lancet have explained that drug-resistant HIV has been increasing in parts of sub-Saharan Africa over the…
Diesel engines exhaust fumes do cause cancer, a panel of experts working for the World Health Organization says. It concluded…
Vietnam plans to ask for international help to find out what is causing a skin infection that has already killed…
World Health Organization experts have delayed a decision on whether controversial research into the H5N1 bird flu virus should be…
Scientists who created a mutant bird flu, a potentially more deadly strain, have temporarily stopped their research amid fears of…