Everyone feels lonely sometimes—but when that feeling lingers, it can silently erode our health and happiness. The World Health Organization (WHO) now warns that chronic loneliness affects one in six ...

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Wednesday eight new members of the CDC's independent vaccine advisory committee, some of ...

Governments, donors, multilateral institutions, the private sector and partners today announced significant policy, ...

Drs. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Senait Fisseha: Remembering Dr. Timothy R.B. Johnson, a giant in global women’s health Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook ...

The virus killed at least 20 million people, wiped at least $10 trillion from the global economy and upended billions of lives.

World Health Organization DG Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus meets with Indian Prime Minister's Secretary P.K. Mishra to discuss collaboration on the WHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre and India's ...

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Rather than push for new WHO leadership, the Biden administration voted to allow Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to serve a second five-year term, which ends in 2027. These ...

WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the agreement was "a victory for public health, science, and multilateral action," after it was formally adopted without opposition. Eleven ...

Before the vaccines, such illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth ...

Amazon Books editors have once again emerged from the literary battlefield, crowning "Wild Dark Shore" by Charlotte McConaghy the "Best Book of the Year So Far." Around the halfway point every ...