The vast majority of Africans have no access to a toilet, according to preliminary data from a World Health Organization report to be published later this year.
A cottage industry that employed people, including many mothers, to extract poisonous lead from used car batteries has been blamed for the deaths of nearly 20 children in a Senegalese fishing town
China faces growing demand for mental health care in the aftermath of last month's devastating earthquake, which killed at least 70,000 people and left millions homeless, the World Health Organization said Friday
For the first time, U.S. life expectancy has surpassed 78 years, the government reported Wednesday, although the United States continues to lag behind about 30 other countries in estimated life span
Tobacco companies are targeting the half billion young people in the Asia Pacific region by linking smoking to glamorous and attractive lifestyles, the U.N. World Health Organization said Friday
China has made it mandatory for health care providers to report all cases of a viral illness that has sickened thousands of young children across the country, as the death toll rose Wednesday to 28
Millions of people could face poverty, disease and hunger as a result of climate change, which is expected to hit poor countries the hardest, the World Health Organization warned
If you are a hammer, as the saying goes, everything looks like a nail. If you are the World Health Organization, everything looks like a disease - even traffic accidents.
If you fix the cities, do you fix the problem? With 50 percent of the entire human race currently living in cities and responsible for emitting up to 80 percent of all global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions every year, they certainly don't seem a bad place to start.
Argentinians planning to travel to the northern part of the country, Brazil and Paraguay were lining up for vaccinations Tuesday, because of a yellow fever breakout that has killed at least 21 people in the region.
The vast majority of Africans have no access to a toilet, according to preliminary data from a World Health Organization report to be published later this year.
A cottage industry that employed people, including many mothers, to extract poisonous lead from used car batteries has been blamed for the deaths of nearly 20 children in a Senegalese fishing town
China faces growing demand for mental health care in the aftermath of last month's devastating earthquake, which killed at least 70,000 people and left millions homeless, the World Health Organization said Friday
For the first time, U.S. life expectancy has surpassed 78 years, the government reported Wednesday, although the United States continues to lag behind about 30 other countries in estimated life span
Tobacco companies are targeting the half billion young people in the Asia Pacific region by linking smoking to glamorous and attractive lifestyles, the U.N. World Health Organization said Friday
China has made it mandatory for health care providers to report all cases of a viral illness that has sickened thousands of young children across the country, as the death toll rose Wednesday to 28
Millions of people could face poverty, disease and hunger as a result of climate change, which is expected to hit poor countries the hardest, the World Health Organization warned
If you are a hammer, as the saying goes, everything looks like a nail. If you are the World Health Organization, everything looks like a disease - even traffic accidents.
If you fix the cities, do you fix the problem? With 50 percent of the entire human race currently living in cities and responsible for emitting up to 80 percent of all global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions every year, they certainly don't seem a bad place to start.
Argentinians planning to travel to the northern part of the country, Brazil and Paraguay were lining up for vaccinations Tuesday, because of a yellow fever breakout that has killed at least 21 people in the region.
The World Health Organization plans to send 2 million vaccines to Paraguay by Sunday after yellow fever emerged there for the first time in 34 years.
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A sweeping new global report, released by the World Health Organization today in New York City, urges governments to get tough on the tobacco epidemic before it's too late
Two new studies throw some doubt into the conventional wisdom of what the Earth was like when dinosaurs roamed it
A study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine estimates that 151,000 Iraqis died of violent causes between March 2003, when the war began, and June 2006.
Eight cases of bird flu among people have been confirmed in Pakistan, the first such cases in the country, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
China has sent a notice to the World Health Organization defending its food safety standards and repeating what is becoming a standard line that more than 99 percent of its food exports are up to standard.
Infectious diseases are emerging more quickly around the globe, spreading faster and becoming increasingly difficult to treat, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
With an estimated 2.1 billion airline passengers roaming the planet last year alone, infectious diseases are spreading faster than ever before, the U.N. health agency said Thursday.
New HIV infections still dramatically outpace efforts in poor nations to bring treatment to patients, health officials said
Four people have tested positive for a mild strain of bird flu, British authorities said Friday
A genetic mutation that raises the risk of breast cancer is found in up to 60 percent of U.S. women, making it the first truly common breast cancer susceptibility gene, researchers report.
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A British veterinary employee hospitalized for a "mild respiratory illness" after working on a weekend outbreak of avian flu does not have the deadly strain of the virus, authorities said Wednesday.
A New York City Council member Thursday proposed pushing sponsors to ban abnormally thin models from walking New York Fashion Week's runways.
The number of people who died worldwide from measles has fallen 60 percent since 1999, a decrease being called an incredible achievement in global public health.
Problem: AIDS and hepatitis are spread by reused needles.
In the northern Kenyan coastal town of Kilifi, a young mother grieves.
Six more human cases of the H5N1 strain of avian flu have occurred in Indonesia, the World Health Organization has said, citing Indonesia's Ministry of Health.
Stocks fell for the third straight session Wednesday after a leading indicator on manufacturing activity came in weaker than expected and bird flu worries rattled investors.
The World Health Organization says a cluster of bird flu cases in Indonesia may have been caused by human-to-human transmission.
Indonesian and World Health Organization officials on Saturday were investigating eight suspected bird flu cases, four of them fatal.
Most people looking out across the sky of a large city are aware that breathing in that hazy, gritty cocktail of suspended pollutants simply cannot be good for the health.
A young girl in Indonesia died of highly pathogenic bird flu last month, bringing the country's total number of confirmed H5N1 human cases to 30, the World Health Organization announced Tuesday.
Initial testing indicated that an Egyptian woman who died Thursday near Cairo was a victim of bird flu, a World Health Organization spokesman said.
Three new countries on Tuesday reported they had detected the deadly strain of bird flu as public health officials battled the H5N1 strain of avian influenza on various fronts across the globe.
A highly pathogenic strain of avian flu has reached the African continent, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday.
No country is fully prepared for bird flu, which is much more genetically diverse than previously thought, according to a global team of researchers.
A 29-year-old Indonesian woman has died from what is believed to be bird flu, a doctor at Indonesia's Sulianti Saroso Hospital has said.
The World Health Organization says two more people have died from bird flu in China, as Turkey sets up a bird flu crisis center in its capital Ankara to curb a growing spate of human cases.
The bird flu virus could become endemic in Turkey and poses a serious risk to neighboring countries, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says.
A 15-year-old girl has died of bird flu in Turkey, becoming the country's second person to succumb to the virus, according to health officials.
A second Chinese woman is reported to have died from bird flu in the eastern Anhui province, the third confirmed human case in the country.
While health officials have serious concerns about the H5N1 bird flu virus becoming a pandemic, they say it won't be a worldwide threat until the virus is able to spread easily between people.
The World Health Organization has confirmed two more people in Indonesia have died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu, one day after it reported China's first known death from the virus.
Preliminary tests indicate a 4-year-old boy in Indonesia has been infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza, according to officials from the national Department of Health's bird flu monitoring center.
Romanian officials quarantined a Danube delta village of about 30 people Friday after three dead ducks there tested positive for bird flu -- the first such cases reported in the region.
America's top health official says the world is "woefully unprepared" to respond to a pandemic, a problem made more urgent by concerns that the current avian flu virus could spread into a global health crisis.
President Bush says the possibility of an avian flu pandemic is among the reasons he wants Congress to give him the power to use the nation's military in law enforcement roles in the United States.
The World Health Organization has announced a third confirmed case of H5N1 avian flu in Indonesia and warns of more to come.
It is a time to take a breath and reflect.
The number of cases of Marburg hemorrhagic fever has continued to rise in northwestern Angola, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
Authorities are doing everything possible to ensure samples of a killer influenza virus sent to more than 4,000 laboratories worldwide are destroyed before anyone becomes infected, a top U.S. disease expert says.
The World Health Organization has told laboratories to immediately destroy samples of a flu virus after a Canadian lab identified it as a strain that triggered a 1957 pandemic.
The World Health Organization is investigating an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever in northwestern Angola, it said Friday.
Angola's death toll from the Marburg virus has climbed to 173 and four more countries have been placed on alert, as health officials struggle to contain the deadly virus, according to the World Health Organization Web site.
Poor countries have cancer rates much closer to those of rich nations, reversing a long-held belief among medical researchers, a study released Thursday reports.
The nation's top disease expert said Tuesday that the federal government has prepared a plan to stem a possible outbreak of avian flu among humans, although the danger of it is not high.
The World Health Organization has confirmed a report that a 42-year-old man is suffering from bird flu and is being treated in a hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam.
The World Health Organization has said that nearly all the people affected by the tsunami that hit southern Asia last month will suffer some form of psychosocial trauma.
The World Health Organization says it is chasing up reports of another case of "bird flu" infection in a 42-year-old man in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Rotting corpses pose little threat to the health of survivors, and there is no need to rush to bury or cremate them, health officials have said.
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The World Health Organization has issued a dramatic warning that bird flu will trigger an international pandemic that could kill up to seven million people.
A sharp increase in the demand for a potent anti-malaria drug has raised concerns of a supply shortage, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
International health officials at an emergency meeting in Bangkok Monday said there is no evidence that bird flu has been passed from one human to another.
Scientists have played down hopes that an AIDS vaccine could be developed within the next few years.
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Only about 14 percent of the six million people infected with HIV in developing countries who need immediate access to AIDS medicine are receiving it, according to a World Health Organization report.
Millions may die in the Darfur region of Sudan as a result of fighting between the Sudanese government, allied militias and rebel groups unless there is an immediate outpouring of international aid, the World Health Organization has warned.
A Red Cross worker who visited the site of a train explosion in North Korea has described the scene as one of devastation, with burned and "totally flattened" buildings.
North Korea has broken its official silence on a massive blast at a train station staying "carelessness" caused the explosion.
The World Health Organization is trying to calm fears that the reported infection of cats with bird flu could signal an increased risk to humans.
There is no evidence from the latest genetic testing that the deadly bird flu in Asia is being passed from person to person, the World Health Organization says.
Since South Korea confirmed a bird flu outbreak in December, authorities have been scrambling to crack down on a disease which has already resulted in human deaths and is ravaging chicken farms in Asia.
United Nations health experts have issued stern warnings about bird flu as the human death toll in Asia rises to 18.
Two more children have died of bird flu, bringing the human toll from the disease to at least 14, as world health experts warned against panic in stricken countries.
China's vice agricultural minister has admitted there are weaknesses in the country's prevention policy on bird flu with widespread outbreaks across the nation.
Health experts are meeting in Rome for an emergency bird flu summit as deaths from the disease mount in Asia and fears rise the illness may have reached Europe.
The World Health Organization has confirmed two Vietnamese women recently died from bird flu, and say they may have caught the illness from their brother.
Chicken cullers across Asia have been warned to wear protective clothing or risk catching the lethal bird flu and creating a global epidemic.
The World Health Organization has called for a united international effort -- similar to the SARS response -- to combat bird flu as the human death toll from the virus mounts.
The World Health Organization has confirmed a fifth person in Vietnam has died after contracting a bird flu that has been wiping out chicken farms throughout Asia.
Scientists have accused international health agencies of supporting cheap, ineffective and outdated drugs to fight malaria in poor countries in a report published this week.
A fourth death caused by bird flu has been confirmed by the World Health Organization, while Vietnam reported more suspected cases.
Vietnam has reported four more suspected human cases of avian flu, prompting import bans on chickens and increased warnings from the World Health Organization.
China has confirmed a 35-year-old male patient in the southern province of Guangdong as a suspected SARS case -- its third since the world was declared SARS free in July.
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