...outbreak, which has claimed over 560 lives and led to more than 12,500 recorded cases since August, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO). Over the past eight weeks, UNICEF reported, the country’s education and health-care system have collapsed....

...and sick for two days before you saw the doctor, or because the medicine didn’t work? How big is the problem? The World Health Organization estimates ten percent of all pharmacuticals are counterfeit. However, they note that only one percent of the drugs in...

...support. UN relief officials have been warning about the worsening situation across Zimbabwe, and earlier this week the World Health Organization WHO appealed for more funding so it can tackle the cholera epidemic. Richard S. Ehrlich writes from Bangkok: In...

...protest sent by Prof. Elliot Berry, Elihu Richter and Ted Tulchinsky and Dr. Ronny Shterksall to the director of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Dr. Margaret Chan, as well as in an article published in October by The Jerusalem Center for Public...

...person we can help will also help change attitudes in their community towards the stigma of disability.” According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 80 percent of all disabled people live in developing countries. There are an estimated 600 million disabled...

... "Our suggestion to ban smoking in all workplaces, public venues and public transportation is in line with the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which went into force in 2005 and was also signed by China," she said. "It has...

...its tests on the product -- as well as those by an independent laboratory -- gave results well below limits defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as well as by authorities in Canada, New Zealand and the European Union. The Saudi agency also found...

...flexibility”toward Taiwan’s bid to participate in U.N. activities, such as its hopes of gaining observer status in the World Health Organization, and find a way to reduce the Taiwan people’s sense of insecurity. He stressed that mutual trust is vital to reach...

...World Health Organization official said Wednesday that the agency will continue to provide medical materials and funding to bring Zimbabwe's widening cholera epidemic to a halt. The United Nations agency said the epidemic had claimed 565 lives as of Tuesday,...

...removed, the legislation would "introduce important and useful tobacco control measures," he said in a statement. The World Health Organization's tobacco control agreement has urged that such terms be prohibited, but the guidelines are not mandatory. Japan...