World health organization News
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Digital health initiatives have been given a boost by the World Health Organization, which has pledged to help with the development of new technology while also working on a governance structure.
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At an audio briefing held on June 18, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced key goals to prevent antimicrobial resistance in countries around the world using a new tool, named AWaRe.
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The World Health Organization has called upon the nations of the world to come together and to work towards the global eliminate of hepatitis.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is on "high alert" over the number of outbreaks of avian influenza in birds and poultry worldwide. There is real concern the virus could spread to humans, signaling the start of a flu pandemic.
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September 10 was World Suicide Prevention Day and at last the epidemic rate of male suicides is being noted. Men are three to four times more likely to take their own lives, a stat that holds true in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and other countries.
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The World Health Organization and its partners sent over six million doses of yellow fever vaccine to Angola in February, but one month later, over one million of those doses had disappeared.
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A number of major health agencies are coming together to improve public health on the global scale. The only downside is the pubic won't get to see the outcome of the information exchange.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for greater transparency with the reporting of clinical trials. This has been welcomed by advocates of open science.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is predicting that cancer rates globally are set to increase. At the same time the health agency calls for restrictions on the levels of sugar and alcohol made available to the world's population.
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The estimated rate of tuberculosis (TB) per 100,000 people, compiled from World Health Organisation (WHO) data for each country (2013), shows a rise. There are some interesting geographical findings.
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An internal document from the World Health Organization (WHO) admits that the organization "botched" efforts to control the spread of Ebola.
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The administration of an experimental serum to two U.S. healthcare workers treated for Ebola raises questions of safety, efficacy, access, and ethics, according to the World Health Organization.
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An emergency committee of international health experts at the World Health Organization in Geneva has announced its decision to declare a global health emergency because of the four-country Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
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On Wednesday British Airways (BA) announced it was suspending flights to and from Liberia and Sierra Leone until end August in the wake of the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus that has struck a number of countries in West Africa.
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As the worst ever outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus unfolds across a swathe of countries in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) is set to reveal a $100 million package of measures to combat the virus.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has again postponed its decision whether to destroy the world’s remaining stocks of smallpox virus.
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A group of scientists has warned the WHO not to classify e-cigarettes as tobacco products, arguing that doing so would jeopardise a major opportunity to slash deaths caused by smoking. E-cigarettes are considered methods of quitting.
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Gareth Williams, a medical doctor, has said that the smallpox virus is no longer necessary for research purposes and could pose a significant threat were it to escape the confines of the lab. He has called for all remaining stocks to be destroyed.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) wants global governments to crack down after study shows that alcohol kills millions per year.
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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is working to educate and not alarm the public amid the first confirmed case of MERS in the United States.
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Chinese researchers have reported that some industrial solvents may help bacteria share an antibiotic resistance gene. This means that some solvents might be leading to a rise in certain bacterial diseases.
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The world is facing what appears to be a cataclysm in the global health care arena. “Superbugs” - bacteria that use nature’s micro-evolutionary mechanisms to develop antibiotic resistance have become a major threat to public health.
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World Health Day is celebrated on 7 April every year to mark the anniversary of the founding of WHO in 1948. Each year a theme is selected that highlights a priority area of public health.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) says cancer is growing at an alarming pace and cannot be cured by today’s treatments, adding that it expects 22 million cancer cases worldwide by 2030.
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A team of Irish and American researchers say governments can — and should — impose measures they believe can control the epidemic of obesity, reducing such long-term health effects as diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer.
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The numbers of worldwide dementia sufferers increased by 22 percent over the last three years according to a new study published Thursday. By 2050, there could be almost 150 million sufferers globally.
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France’s Ministries of Agriculture and Health issued an alert Thursday, Oct. 31 after a kitten was found to be suffering from rabies in a suburb of Paris.
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One of northeastern China's largest cities was brought to its knees today, a casualty of a thick, choking smog. The airport and schools were closed, and traffic came to a stand-still. Officials say the cloud of dense pollution could last another 24 hours.
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The World Health Organization has recorded the first suspected outbreak of polio in Syria in 14 years, renewing panic at the collapse of health care as a result of the country's civil war.
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While it’s something many people have assumed, it’s now been officially proven that outdoor air pollution is the leading environmental cause of cancer.
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As three West African countries face the biggest outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in history the World Health Organization has launched its biggest ever initiative to combat spread of the virus. World Health Organization YouTube screengrab
IASP encourages use of this banner which declares September 10th to be the anniversary for World Suicide Prevention day International Association of Suicide Prevention
The IASP encourages use of the "September 10th is Suicide Prevention day" and has printed the banner in 39 languages International Association of Suicide Prevention
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