A substance abuse summit has suggested tightening the
alcohol laws.
Spain leads the world in organ transplants, but its success in the operating theatre is matched by its holistic approach outside.
An active approach to identifying TB at the community level is needed in a country with one of the highest rates of the disease in the world.
You have a bit of a cough, night sweats and a searing headache every now and again. So, what’s the diagnosis?
Australia, Canada and Singapore joined a list of countries shunning Japanese food imports as radioactive steam wafted anew from a nuclear plant.
By 2015 more than two-million people will contract a form of TB resistant to standard drugs, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday.
The WHO said on Monday that radiation in food after an earthquake damaged a Japanese nuclear plant was more serious than previously thought.
In the aftermath of the earthquake and the tsunami, Japan is facing the most important nuclear accident worldwide since 1986.
Dealing with patients who are in the later stages of a terminal illness is never easy.
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/ 11 February 2011
Alcohol causes nearly 4% of deaths worldwide — more than Aids, tuberculosis or violence, the World Health Organisation warned on Friday.
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/ 25 January 2011
WHO has turned to mobile instant messaging and social networks MXit and JamiiX to prepare communities in southeast Asia for disaster management.
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/ 12 January 2011
The World Health Organisation launched a plan on Wednesday to stop a form of drug-resistant malaria from spreading from Southeast Asia to Africa.
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/ 21 December 2010
Tuberculosis killed 4 700 people every day last year. The annual death toll of 1,7-million includes 380 000 people.
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/ 15 December 2010
Bed nets and indoor spraying credited with cutting rates of admissions and deaths, but gains are fragile, WHO warns.
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/ 10 December 2010
Inadequate training is a barrier to successfully preventing TB infection in HIV patients.
Lax immunisation has resulted in outbreaks in formerly virus-free zones on the continent.
Strategies include harder bargaining over prices paid for ARVs and earlier onset of treatment.
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/ 7 December 2010
Africans are not eating enough fruit and vegetables, a critical problem on a continent where obesity, diabetes and heart disease are very concerning.
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/ 13 October 2010
Alcohol has formed an integral part of human life for many thousands of years.
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/ 13 October 2010
Around the world and across all cultures, drinking and interpersonal violence are inevitably linked.
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/ 13 October 2010
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday unveiled a new five-year plan to help fight tuberculosis (TB).
The WHO on Tuesday announced the end of the swine flu pandemic, more than a year after the disease began spreading around the world.
The WHO says cholera cases in Somalia are increasing fast as many people are driven from their homes by fighting between the government and rebels.
Governments around the world could save huge health costs and avert millions of early deaths if they introduced laws to cut salt levels in food.
The internet had a disruptive impact on the handling of the flu pandemic by fanning speculation and rumours, officials said on Tuesday.
Medics in Mogadishu’s hospitals are being overwhelmed by casualties from the fighting in Somalia, the WHO said on Tuesday.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday conceded shortcomings in its handling of the H1N1 swine flu pandemic.
The World Health Organisation will launch a major campaign on Wednesday to counter a triple threat to health in fast growing cities.
Medical workers are concerned that the lethal combination of HIV infections and tuberculosis may become the world’s next major health crisis.
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/ 4 December 2009
The WHO launched a campaign on Friday to try to stop what could become a health catastrophe caused by rapidly rising levels of smoking in Africa.
The World Health Organisation restated its confidence in the H1N1 flu vaccine on Tuesday, calling it the most important tool against the pandemic.
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/ 18 September 2009
Production of swine flu vaccines will fall ”substantially” short of the amount needed to protect the global population, the WHO warned on Friday.