The Minamata Convention—a global agreement to tackle mercury—will enter into force on Aug 16, 2017, as the required 50th of the 128...

Data from 77 countries show that antibiotic resistance is making gonorrhoea – a common sexually-transmitted infection – much harder, and...

The death toll continues to rise in Yemen, where a cholera outbreak has been spreading for months, according to the World Health...

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, will lead the WHO delegation participating in the G20 Summit taking place on 7–8...

Today, WHO declared the end of the most recent outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). "With the end...

Last month, WHO reinstated snake-bite envenoming to its list of category A neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which is an important...

Implementation of IraPEN, Iran’s adaptation of WHO’s Package of essential noncommunicable disease (PEN) interventions for primary health...

Suresh Kuchipudi, associate professor of virology in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, conducted research to determine if...

Public health officials regularly collect and analyse data to map disease, spot patterns, identify causes and respond to outbreaks. But...

Globally, 1 in 20 people still lacks access to essential health services that could be delivered at a primary care clinic instead of a...