Namibia elected to WHO governing body again

PESHAWAR, May 24: World Health Organisation Pakistan polio chief Dr Elias Durry on Friday expressed concern over the emergence of a new polio case in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and warned that the province posed serious threat to the global polio ...

Private health-care companies have several advantages over public organisations. They have more incentive to make services more efficient, since they typically keep some of the savings. They are better at persuading their employees to adopt new ...

A number of programmes were organised in the city to mark the World Health Day on Sunday. This year the focus being on hypertension, doctors, hospitals and institutions organised events and talks t...

The World Health Organisation today revised up the death toll from the SARS-like corona virus from 18 to 20 worldwide, but said the two additional fatalities in Saudi Arabia were old cases.

Chinese scientists say the virus has been transmitted to humans from chickens, though the World Health Organisation says 40% of people infected with H7N9 had no contact with poultry.

In France, two confirmed cases of the new SARS-like virus were recorded at the weekend. The World Health Organisation called on people to stay calm and not overburden hospitals for fear of the deadly virus to allow for proper treatment of those actually ...

The World Health Organisation on Thursday announced a $ 400 million programme to combat a resistant strain of malaria that has emerged in South-east Asia in recent years. The programme, whi...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has removed India from the list of countries with active endemic wild poliovirus transmission. In written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury said ...

More than 270,000 pedestrians are killed on the worlds roads each year, the World Health Organisation said today, slamming decades of neglect in favour of vehicle transportation.