Health

News Hour: World Rabies Day is 28 September, 2016, and is designed to raise awareness about the prevention and control of this neglected disease. Almost all human rabies are transmitted by domestic dog bites or scratches, usually...

News Hour: WHO and partners have launched seven strategies to prevent violence against children and enhance victim services. The set of approaches launched in July, called INSPIRE, have all been tested and shown to be effective...

News Hour: A new international initiative was launched in July to make tuberculosis diagnostics more widely available in African countries, especially for HIV-associated and drug-resistant tuberculosis. The burden of tuberculosis, including multidrug-resistant forms, is high, while...

News Hour: A new WHO reports calls on governments to step up action to protect people from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), especially heart disease, cancers, diabetes and lung diseases that are responsible for most deaths in people...

News Hour: A vaccination campaign got under way last month in South Sudan to stop a deadly outbreak of cholera. The health ministry, with support from WHO and other partners, has been ramping up disease surveillance,...

News Hour: Malaysia is bracing for more Zika cases, officials said on Sunday, after detecting the first locally infected patient, which could further stretch a health system struggling with dengue, another mosquito-borne virus that can be...

News Hour: Global leaders gather this month at the United Nations in New York to commit themselves to the fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and decide on what action to take. Antimicrobial resistance has become one...

News Hour: According to a new study, infants who have a genetic profile linked with asthma risk could be protected against respiratory symptoms if they are breastfeed. The study is presented today (4 September, 2016) at...

News Hour: According to the findings of a new study., artificial intelligence could improve the interpretation of lung function tests for the diagnosis of long-term lung diseases. The results, presented today (04 September, 2016) at the...

While it is preventable and treatable, rotavirus diarrhoea continues to have a devastating toll on children around the world. It is a leading cause of child death and is responsible for hospitalizing millions more....Read More