On the International Day of the Older Person – 1 October – WHO calls for a new approach to providing health services for older people....

WHO is supporting efforts in Manila to step up prevention, detection and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, the world’s number one...

Periodic deworming programmes with a single-tablet treatment can drastically reduce the suffering of those infected with parasitic...

Homeless residents live in tents in downtown San Diego, where a hepatitis A virus has killed 17 people and sickened more than 460 others....

A refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh in 2011. Photo by: IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation / CC BY-NC-ND BANGKOK — A mobile,...

A report, Antibacterial agents in clinical development – an analysis of the antibacterial clinical development pipeline, including...

Universal health coverage is based on the conviction that health is a human right, not a privilege. People must not have to choose...

Governments are making limited progress, so more action is needed to address NCDs and main risk factors to meet global targets to reduce...

815 million people now hungry – Millions of children at risk from malnutrition After steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger...

This photomicrograph reveals Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria using acid-fast Ziehl-Neelsen stain; Magnified 1000 X. The acid-fast...