Everybody is talking about how best to reform the WHO, arguably the best vehicle for coordinating the ever-changing global health agenda. But a new election process using secret ballots for appointing the next director-general is hardly a promising start.
The World Health Organization (WHO) declined to classify the ongoing yellow fever outbreak in Angola and the Democratic Republic of…
Air pollution levels are unsafe in nearly all cities in developing countries, according to new data from the World Health…
The World Health Organization issued a new recommendation to cut the treatment time for people with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in half. The…
With only 22 cases of polio last year and nine cases in 2016, the end of the virus is nearly…
Since Brazil first reported a startling increase in the birth defect microcephaly last fall, scientists have been working around the…
The number of people who die from malaria each year fell by nearly half, from 839,000 in 2000 to 438,000…
Sierra Leone confirmed a new Ebola death just hours after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak over in…
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is over. More than 42 days passed since the last case in Liberia, marking…
Global health featured as a part of President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address last night. His remarks…