Steep rises in international food and fuel prices since the Russian invasion of Ukraine have left millions more Africans facing hunger and food insecurity this year, the UN, local politicians, and charities have warned.

Over two years after the coronavirus was first detected in China, and after at least 6.3 million deaths have been counted worldwide from the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending in its strongest terms yet that a deeper probe is required into whether a lab accident may be to blame.

A new study has confirmed the benefit of supplements for slowing age-related macular degeneration.

Anyone who imagines that the suspension of Covid-related measures in much of Europe means that those measures, and hence the C-19 vaccination campaign, are things of the past should have a look at the recent pronouncements on the subject by the European Commission, starting with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s April 27 statement on the “next pandemic phase.”

The World Health Organization (WHO) has been forced to back down over controversial amendments to the International Health Regulations.

An international study of global progress in reaching World Health Organization (WHO) goals in the provision of universal healthcare coverage has found that many countries may be inflating their success by not counting people in prisons and youth detention in their data.

The World Health Organization’s Member States have re-elected Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to serve a second five-year term as the organization’s Director-General.