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The World Health Organization has rushed emergency supplies to flood-hit parts of Ukraine and are preparing to respond to an array of health risks including trauma, drowning and waterborne diseases like cholera, officials said on Thursday.…

The Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Prize for research in health care for the elderly reflects their position as a major development priority in health programs, Kuwait’s Health Minister Dr. Ahmad Al-Awadhi said on Friday. “The…

The World Health Organization called for caution on Tuesday in using artificial intelligence for public health care, saying data used by AI to reach decisions could be biased or misused. The WHO said it was enthusiastic about the…

The World Health Organization on Monday renamed the viral disease monkeypox as "mpox" due to concerns about racism and stigmatization. The new name will be used "simultaneously for one year" while the old one is phased out, the WHO said in…

Lack of physical activity is exacting a high price on the global economy, driving rising and costly rates of illness, according to the World Health Organisation. The United Nations agency puts the annual cost of physical inactivity at…

The antibody drugs GSK and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals developed against Covid-19 do not appear to work for Omicron and its subvariants, according to a panel of experts advising the World Health Organisation (WHO). The panel recommended…

Moderna has allowed its Covid-19 vaccine to be used in a World Health Organisation (WHO) effort to develop mRNA shots that would increase production and access for poor countries. Afrigen Biologics & Vaccines, a South African…

The Philippines on Friday (July 29) reported its first case of monkeypox. The virus was found carried by a Filipino who flew back to Manila on July 19, Health Department spokesman Beverly Ho said in a news briefing. He had been in…

Drowning has become the second leading cause of death for children under the age of five in Bangladesh as more than 14,000 children in the South Asian country die due to drowning each year. In a joint press statement issued on the World…

Around 3.2 million children are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition in Afghanistan by the end of this year, with 1 million of them at risk of dying as temperatures drop, a World Health Organisation spokesperson said on Friday (Nov…