Health

The research, led by the UN World Health Organization Center for Cancer Research, collected data from nearly 2.5 million people throughout Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. It revealed one “Modest but significant” correlation between alcohol consumption and the risk of developing pancreatic cancerregardless of gender or smoking status. “Alcohol consumption is a known carcin […]

16 years – that was how long Dah had to live with the annoying state and undergo eight different surgical procedures before finally getting the fistula repaired. In recognition of the over 500,000 women like Dah, forced to endure what is a very treatmentable state, the international day is marked to end obstetric fistula on

The effects of the devastating Covid-19 pandemic are still felt. About seven million people died, health systems were overwhelmed and the global economy was practically driven to standstill. Global turmoil led a stunned international community to pursue an agreement with the purpose of preventing such a disastrous event from happening again – and ensuring that

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director -General of the World Health Organization, called on Member States to remain focused on shared goals, even in the midst of global instability. “We are here not to serve our own interests but the eight billion people in our world“He said in his main address of the Palais des Nations.” To

The effort is high for this year’s World Health Assembly, the UN’s leading health forum, where officials will tackle a sweeping agenda-from pandemic emergency preparedness and climate-related health risks for mental health, maternal care and environmental justice. But with geopolitical tensions that run high, international cooperation on these and other important issues will be tested.

Mr. Hassan and his colleagues are actively advising and engaging with the WHO General and Agency’s senior management, designing and expanding the agency’s programs and strategies. In an interview with UN news ahead of the 2025 World Health Assembly-Fn’s highest forum for Global Health-Explorer Mr. Hassan, born and raised in Texas, USA, which is why

Updating journalists in Geneva, Dr. Margaret Harris described another night of terror in the war -hired enclave. She said some of the wounded in the attacks had sought help from the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza, even if it was now ”Just a shell“After 19 months of war. “We’ve done our best to bring it

Many women came to the clinic that had gone several hours to receive maternal care – some of them with their newborns and some strong pregnant women. And then there were even health workers who were obliged to serve the distressed in difficult to reach areas of the poor Taliban-controlled nation. ‘Off the Radar’ These

“Behind every data point is a person – a child who did not reach their fifth birthday, a mother lost in birth, a life that is cut off by a preventable illness“Said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, as the organization’s latest statistics report revealed the deeper health effects of the pandemic. Warning that the overall

The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, reported on Wednesday that most of the newcomers are women and children. Many have come from Zamzam Camp and the city of El Fasher, locations targeted by paramilitary rapid support forces who have fought for the military government’s forces for more than two years. In Tchad, the high number of