Five years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 as a pandemic. Under the ...

World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan voiced deep concern about the increase worldwide of childhood obesity, with numbers climbing fastest in developing countries.

Measles cases in the European region surged last year to reach their highest levels since 1997, the World Health Organization ...

"It has not yet become a global health emergency. It may yet become one," World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said as Wuhan closed its city limits. Shoppers raced ...

On Monday, the Director of the Pandemic Center Jennifer Nuzzo presented a lecture titled “Pandemic-Proofing the Future” at a ...

The World Health Organization warned last week that the ... in the fight against TB is at risk,” Dr. Tereza Kasaeva, director of the WHO’s Global Programme on TB and Lung Health, said in ...

LONDON/NAIROBI (Reuters) -Governments and global health groups are working to try to fill the most urgent gaps in the fight ...

Despite having one of the most sophisticated health care systems in the world, the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic fell well short when compared to other developed nations.

The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr Jarbas Barbosa, has underscored the need to address public ...

Five years ago on Tuesday, the World Health Organization announced Covid-19 had become a pandemic -- a moment when the world ...