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WHO Warns of Potential Polio Outbreak in Syria
By Cheri Cheng | Oct 21, 2013 10:56 AM EDTWHO is currently investigating a potential polio outbreak in Syria.
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WHO Urges Nations to Stop Manufacturing and Selling Lead Paint
By Cheri Cheng | Oct 21, 2013 09:27 AM EDTWHO urges nations to stop producing and selling lead paint.
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WHO Reports: Air Pollution Leads to Cancer
By Cheri Cheng | Oct 17, 2013 09:41 AM EDTThe cancer agency of the World Health Organization, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, announced that air pollution is a carcinogen.
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Officials Launch Ambitious Plan to Stop TB in Kids Worldwide
By Kamal Nayan | Oct 03, 2013 09:44 AM EDTWith an ambitious plan health officials have shifted their focus on wiping out tuberculosis in children throughout the world.
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WHO Calls for a MERS-Emergency Committee
By Cheri Cheng | Jul 05, 2013 10:24 AM EDTWHO has called for an emergency committee of international experts to prepare for the potential of a global MERS outbreak.
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WHO Pushes to End HIV/AIDS Pandemic
By Cheri Cheng | Jul 01, 2013 10:01 AM EDTThe World Health Organization has proposed a new set of guidelines that push for faster treatment administered to HIV positive patients with the goal of stoping the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
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1 in 3 Murdered Women Are Killed By an Intimate Partner, WHO
By Christine Hsu | Jun 20, 2013 03:06 PM EDTMore than a third of all women murdered worldwide are killed by an intimate partner, according to a new study.
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First Known Case of MERS Originated in Jordan
By Cheri Cheng | Jun 17, 2013 02:16 PM EDTResearchers found the first case of a MERS coronavirus outbreak in Jordan 2012.
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Study Confirms that Tobacco Ads Can Lead to Teenage Smoking
By Cheri Cheng | Jun 13, 2013 03:39 PM EDTA new study found that exposure to tobacco ads could be responsible for teenage smokers.
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As Researchers Are Stifled by Legal Hurdles, Novel Coronavirus Spreads to Tunisia, Kills 16 in Saudi Arabia
By Makini Brice | May 21, 2013 09:58 AM EDTTunisia has announced three new cases and one death from the SARS-linked novel coronavirus, which has finally received a name and which has affected 40 people worldwide.
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WHO Says New SARS-like Virus "Can Transmit From Person-To-Person"
By Christine Hsu | May 13, 2013 10:30 AM EDTOfficials at the World Health Organization said on Sunday that it the new SARs-like coronavirus (NCoV) that has so far killed at least 18 people and infected 34 people in the Middle East and Europe could be passed between people in close contact.
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France Reports Three New Possible Cases of SARS-Like Coronavirus
By Cheri Cheng | May 10, 2013 10:30 AM EDTAfter confirming the first case of coronavirus in France on Wednesday, there have been three new possible cases of the virus.
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5 Saudi Victims of SARS-Like Virus Dead, Two in Intensive Care: Report
By Jennifer Broderick | May 04, 2013 08:02 PM EDTFive Saudis died after contracting a new SARS-like virus last week and two are in intensive care in Saudi Arabia's Alhasaa province, according to the Saudi Press Agency.
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WHO States No Evidence Found of Bird Flu Spreading Between Humans
By Cheri Cheng | Apr 08, 2013 12:54 PM EDTWHO stated that the H7N9 virus in China, which has killed seven people already, cannot be spread via human-to-human contact.
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China Bird Flu Scare: Shanghai Begins Culling Poultry
By Jennifer Broderick | Apr 04, 2013 08:51 PM EDTIn response to the recent H7N9 bird flu scare in China which has already killed four, Shanghai started culling chickens from the area's poultry dealers on Friday, Shanghai Daily reports.
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