Long wait times to see specialists. Poor coordination between family doctors and hospitals. Duplicated tests. And some of the highest...

"We're seeing a change in the nature of the yellow fever outbreaks we're dealing with." That's how Bruce Aylward, M.D., World Health...

In 2013, Kenya’s Ministry of Health was faced with a debate over the alarming rate of women dying in childbirth: was the cause...

American author Mark Twain was fond of saying that there are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. To which WHO...

Abstract Background: North-Western and Western provinces of Zambia were reclassified as low-risk areas for yellow fever (YF). However,...

Tuberculosis is now the world’s commonest cause of death from infectious disease. The ominous spread of multi drug-resistant (MDR) and...

Voluntary, unpaid blood donations must be increased rapidly in more than half the world’s countries in order to ensure a reliable supply...

Malaria in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is "out of control" with many parents letting their sick children die at home...

Indonesia's gold mines are causing birth defects. More than a million small-scale miners in this island nation are poisoned, which is...

Recent moves to introduce plain (standardized) packaging of tobacco products can save lives by reducing demand for tobacco products,...