Q&A on Trump’s Impending Exit from the World Health Organization
As part of a rash of executive orders completed on his first day back in the White House, President Donald Trump began the ...
Nation’s second-largest egg producer hit by bird flu as virus spreads across the US
The Indiana farm said it is working with the state to combat the risk of spread to other birds as the virus proliferates across the nation ...
Victorian lung disease tuberculosis surges in the UK
UK Health Security Agency figures show 5,480 people were struck by the bacterial infection - spread by coughing - in 2024, a ...
On This Day: WHO declares COVID-19 a public health emergency
World Health Organization officials declared the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak -- later to be dubbed COVID-19 -- a public ...
Measles, bioweapons, bird flu, and abortion rights: RFK Jr repeatedly pounded with his past comments at tumultuous hearing
Trump’s nominee for health secretary faced a group of bipartisan senators during the first day of his confirmation hearing ...
Health chiefs issue warn of 'highly infectious' disease spreading across UK
The Government's health bosses have cautioned Brits of a "highly infectious" disease and urged the public to get vaccinated. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) sounded the alert about measles on ...
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4 facts about Americans’ views of the World Health Organization
More than half of Americans believe the U.S. benefits from its membership in the WHO. As of April 2024, 25% of U.S. adults say the country benefits a great deal from its membership, while about one ...
Despite waiver from U.S. on aid freeze, health and humanitarian groups uncertain if they can proceed
Health and humanitarian groups around the world were still uncertain on Wednesday if and how they could resume work after the ...
Human Rights Watch1d
Protesters’ Appeal Hearing Tests the Health of UK Democracy
On January 29, the United Kingdom Court of Appeal will begin an appeal hearing for 16 environmental protesters from the group Just Stop Oil who are contesting their “unduly harsh” sentences for a ...
Loughborough University1d
New research will tackle the global threat of antimicrobial resistance
A Loughborough University-backed research project investigating the development of new treatments for drug-resistant ...
Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research
Paper mills’ are contaminating the world’s scholarly output with fake papers that hinder research. Lifesaving biomedical fields are especially hard hit.
Leaving the W.H.O. Could Hurt Americans on a Range of Health Matters
President Trump’s decision to pull out of the international health agency could deprive the United States of crucial ...