India’s laissez-faire attitude to drug regulation is a serious threat to global efforts to tackle antimicrobial resistance.
A woman with symptoms of cholera walks into a cholera treatment center at Immaculate Conception Hospital in Les Cayes, Haiti in November 2016 in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew.
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Kanyiva Muindi, African Population and Health Research Center dan Blessing Mberu, African Population and Health Research Center
Research in Kenya’s capital found average levels of hazardous solid and liquid particles in the air within households were three times more than the WHO recommended maximum level.
New World Health Organisation Director-General De Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
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In the past year, 3,300 cases of measles were reported in Europe. Most of them were entirely preventable.
An epidemic of Group B meningococcal disease in New Zealand prompted the development of a vaccine, which also provides moderate protection against gonorrhoea.
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As the WHO calls for urgency to address antibiotic resistance in gonorrhoea, new research shows that a vaccine developed against an unrelated disease offers protection.
Almost one-third of human disease requires surgery, but most of those people who need surgery are not getting it. Here’s why we need to make surgery more accessible.
African leaders need to up their health allocations to help the new World Health Organisation Director-General meet his health care targets for the continent.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the new Director-General of the World Health Organisation
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The new director-general of the World Health Organisation has set universal health coverage as a priority. There are several ways to make headway with this goal.
Providing green space can deliver health, social and environmental benefits for all urban residents – few other public health interventions can achieve all of this.
Anne Cleary
Urban green spaces are most effective at delivering their full range of health, social and environmental benefits when physical improvement of the space is coupled with social engagement.
Tedros Ghebreyesus, the newly elected Director-General of the World Health Organisation.
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There are a number of challenges that the World Health Organisation’s new leader, Ethiopian-born Tedros Ghebreyesus, will have to navigate during his tenure.
Medical panels are constantly lowering thresholds across many diseases, which results in more and more healthy people being diagnosed as sick.
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More of us are labelled as sick with the constantly changing diagnostic cut-offs for diseases. Now an international expert panel has drafted a list of things to consider before setting new thresholds.
Sania Nishtar, David Nabarro and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus are the final three candidates.
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An active outbreak of a type of bird flu in China raises concerns about worldwide pandemics. Ebola and Zika viruses still threaten. Here’s why this is not the time to cut funding.
Director of Koi Tū, the Centre for Informed Futures; former Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of New Zealand, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau