NPR interviews Maria Van Kherkove, the infectious disease epidemiologist who is a leader in the World Health Organization.

By Gift BritonProfessor Mohamed Janabi of Tanzania has been nominated as the next Regional Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region.The nomination came during a Special Session ...

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CET on April 16, 2025, in Geneva, after years of negotiation and a final day of intense deliberation, the World Health ...

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On World Ovarian Cancer Day, doctors share key symptoms, risk factors, and lifestyle tips to help women lower their risk of this often undetected disease. Ovarian cancer can be benign or malignant ...

May 8, 2025 – Today, TIME reveals the second annual TIME100 Health list recognizing the 100 most influential individuals in ...

Burmese academic Sophia Htwe spent hours desperately trying to call home from Australia after the 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck her hometown in Myanmar in late March, learning that a childhood ...

For over 75 years, the WHO has been promoting global health. They have kept the world safe from some of the most dangerous and infectious diseases on the planet and achieved the very highest standards ...

In a case of first impression in federal court involving the Act, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health ("WPATH"), an Illinois non-profit organization, invokes the Act and ...

according to World Health Organization. Measles was declared eliminated from the U.S. in 2000 after the debut of the vaccination program, meaning there is no measles spreading within the country ...