The Guardian: Time to talk dirty Guardian blogger, Sarah Boseley, highlights a new report by the World Health Organization and UNICEF, which says that “the world is on track to meet or even exceed the drinking-water target,” as part...

The World Health Organization and the US Food & Drug Administration have decided on the composition of the influenza virus vaccine that will be used during the 2010-2011 season in the northern hemisphere.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is releasing new guidelines for the treatment of malaria, and the first ever guidance on procuring safe and efficacious anti-malarial medicines. In recent years a new type of treatment called art...

AIDS leaders gathering in London today face the daunting challenge of implementing new World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations for earlier treatment with better AIDS drug cocktails at a time when donors are backing away from...

By the year 2030, the World Health Organization estimates that 1.2 billion women will be age 50 and older, the age when hormone production by the ovaries declines and most women experience symptoms of menopause like hot flashes, rap...

26 February 2010 -- The fifth anniversary of the entry into force of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control was held today in the Geneva headquarters of the World Health Organization.

The World Health Organization announced Wednesday that it was too early to declare that the H1N1 pandemic had peaked and urged nations around the world to remain vigilant. ...

Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX) presented to the world's leading pandemic influenza vaccine experts a summary of the recent preliminary safety and immunogenicity data from its Pivotal 2009 A/H1N1 VLP pandemic influenza vaccine study in...

By Miriam Falco CNN Medical News Managing Editor The World Health Organization is recommending that the H1N1 flu virus that’s currently circulating be included in the next seasonal flu vaccine for the Northern Hemisphere. The WHO ...

During a video address to the 7th U.S.-Islamic World Forum meeting in Doha, Qatar, on Saturday, President Barack Obama appointed Rashad Hussain, deputy associate White House counsel, to serve as Special Envoy to the Organization of ...

By Miriam Falco CNN Medical Managing Editor The World Health Organization announced Thursday that although the number of H1N1 flu cases around the world is declining, the virus has not disappeared yet. Dr Keiji Fukuda, the special ...

The Newshour has a transcript of a feature report on Dr. Atul Gawande's new book, "The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right," which "grew out of work he did for the World Health Organization, which asked him to help them fin...

Four leading national health professional associations have collectively recommended the adoption of the World Health Organization (WHO) Growth Charts for monitoring the growth of Canadian children in all primary health care and cli...

Guest Blog By: Joy DuBost www.joyofnutrition.wordpress.com Around the world the prevalence of obesity is increasing in both developed and developing countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that approximately 1.6 bil...

QOTD [Digital Daily] People don’t understand the scale of criminal activity on the internet. Whether criminal, individual or nation states, the community is growing more sophisticated. We need a kind of World Health Organization fo...

Today is World Cancer Day. The World Health Organization (WHO) promotes this day to bring about greater global awareness about cancer. Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, and WHO projects cancer deaths to continue rising, ...

Today is World Cancer Day, which was created by the World Health Organization to raise awareness about one of the world's leading causes of death. And in an effort to raise awareness of not only cancer, but all major health issues, ...

Based on the scientific literature, besides World Health Organization reports, there is explicit evidence that the use of sex hormones to increase meat production poses serious dangers to consumers.

The World Health Organization welcomes the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledge of US$ 10 billion over the next ten years to accelerate global vaccine efforts. "The Gates Foundation's commitment to vaccines is unprecedented, but n...

WHO spokesman, Gregory Hartl, said in a new briefing that the H1N1 flu pandemic (swine flu) continues to spread in parts of eastern and southeastern Europe, parts of Asia, and North Africa. However, he added that globally it is gene...