A new study shows that a switch of just two weeks from a traditional African diet to a Western diet causes inflammation, reduces the immune response to pathogens, and activates processes associated with lifestyle diseases. Conversely, an African diet rich in vegetables, fiber, and fermented foods has positive effects.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is proposing to significantly reduce staff numbers and the scale of its work due to the impact of U.S. funding cuts, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters.

The World Bank reports that air pollution claims the lives of around 5.7 million people each year, with 95 percent of deaths occurring in low- and middle-income countries.

Exposure to multiple pesticides significantly increases the risk of childhood cancers compared with exposures to just one pesticide, first-of-its-kind research finds, raising new fears that children are more at risk to the substances’ harmful effects than previously thought.

Mexico's lower house of Congress has approved a constitutional reform to ban the planting of genetically modified (GM) corn.

Children under 15 accounted for 4.3 percent of new and relapsed cases of tuberculosis in the World Health Organization's European region in 2023, 10 percent more than in the previous 12 months, a report has found.