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New Data Uncovers Australia’s Back Pain Crisis: Spinal Health Week Champions WHO Guideline for Condition Impacting 8.35M Households
Ground-breaking progress made in Member State negotiations on amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR)
Ireland and WHO work together to improve access to assistive technology globally
WHO updates list of drug-resistant bacteria most threatening to human health
WHO launches updated guidance on HIV-associated TB
Sexual and reproductive health for all: 20 years of the Global Strategy
WHO prequalifies new dengue vaccine
Message by the Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals at WHO – April 2024
Nations unite to eliminate mercury-containing medical devices
Guidance for One Health field epidemiology workforce development
WHO launches new initiative to tackle the main cause of vision impairment
154 million lives saved in 50 years: 5 charts on the global success of vaccines
Attacks On Healthcare In War Must Not Become New Norm
Governments agree to continue their steady progress on proposed pandemic agreement ahead of the World Health Assembly
New guidance aims to reduce bloodstream infections from catheter use
Application period now open for the 2025 update of the WHO Model Lists of Essential Medicines
Not all ultra-processed foods are bad for your health, whatever you might have heard
Bridging disciplinary and sectoral silos to strengthen pandemic preparedness and response
World Asthma Day: WHO calls for better education to empower people living with asthma
WHO Results Report 2023 shows notable health achievements and calls for concerted drive toward Sustainable Development Goals
Breastfeeding should be recognised as a carbon offset: report
Latrobe City Joins Global Celebration Of Diversity
Global cooperation towards enhanced surveillance of foodborne diseases
Healthy eating guidelines for babies: when can your baby drink cow’s milk?
Rafah incursion would substantially increase mortality and morbidity and further weaken an already broken health system
To boost quality of life while aging – stay active or get active by 55
International Development Innovation Alliance and WHO renew collaboration on scale-up of health innovations
WHO advisory group convenes its first meeting on responsible use of the life sciences in Geneva
Anticipating the inevitable: how prepared are we for the next pandemic?
Strengthened global capacities on climate change and health: WHO training in Madrid
National Trauma Centre Ready For Future Health Crisis
Governments near agreement on package of amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005)
WHO reports widespread overuse of antibiotics in patients hospitalized with COVID-19
WHO and France convene high-level meeting to defeat meningitis
Statement on the antigen composition of COVID-19 vaccines
Spain’s Secretary of State for Health discusses health priorities with WHO
Global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives over the past 50 years
World Malaria Day 2024: “Accelerating the fight against malaria for a more equitable world”
Kourtney Kardashian Barker isn’t the first to drink breast milk – but we know surprisingly little about its adult health benefits
WHO-trained journalists win national road safety reporting award in Viet Nam
WHO Global Malaria Programme launches new operational strategy
Promising patient-friendly oral drug against visceral leishmaniasis enters Phase II clinical trial in Ethiopia
As Empire AI dawns, Cornell lays groundwork for public good
Parrot fever cases amid a ‘mysterious’ pneumonia outbreak in Argentina – what you need to know about psittacosis
Assistant Minister For Health And Aged Care, Speech 22 April
WHO prequalifies new oral simplified vaccine for cholera
Leading health agencies outline updated terminology for pathogens that transmit through the air
WHO launches first ever Patient Safety Rights Charter