Mia Farrow visits Chad to promote new approach to fighting hunger
Groups of women had traveled for days to find care for their starving children in Chad, blankly staring in exhaustion and with little hope. But other women smiled, relieved to see their children "fattened" by a new and simplified initiative for hunger. In an interview ...
At tobacco industry forum, panic sets in over possible e-cigarette ban
While most of Washington is gripped by the impeachment storm swirling around Donald Trump, a few blocks up Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, hundreds of executives are pondering another potential presidential upheaval. Trump has floated the possibility of soon banning flavored e-cigarette products — ...
India announced on Wednesday a ban on the sale of electronic cigarettes, as a backlash gathers pace worldwide about a technology promoted as less harmful than smoking tobacco. The announcement by India came a day after New York became the second U.S. state to ban ...
The world faces a mounting threat of pandemics that could kill millions and wreak economic havoc, a international expert panel warns, saying governments should work to mitigate that risk. The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, convened by the World Bank and the World Health Organization, said ...
Nearly 800,000 people commit suicide each year — more than those killed by war and homicide or breast cancer, the World Health Organization said Monday, urging action to avert the tragedies. In a fresh report, the U.N. health agency said that the global suicide rate ...
For countries to grow, health care must come first, WHO's Africa director says on TICAD sidelines
Matshidiso Moeti has been one of Africa's foremost caretakers for more than three decades. Last week, she was nominated by 47 member states of the World Health Organization to serve a second five-year term as regional director for Africa, and this week in Yokohama she ...
Don't worry about drinking microplastics in water for now, but more study needed, WHO says
The World Health Organization says the levels of microplastics in drinking water don't appear to be risky, but that research has been spotty and more is needed into their effects on the environment and health. Microplastics are created when man-made materials break down into tiny ...
Ebola kills boy aged 7 in Congo's South Kivu, the province's second fatality
South Kivu, Congo AFP-Jiji A child has died from Ebola in Congo's South Kivu, health authorities said Monday, the second person to succumb to the virus since the epidemic spread to the eastern province. The announcement last week of the first confirmed cases in South Kivu revived ...
Israeli flight attendant dies after contracting measles on jet from New York
An Israeli flight attendant has died months after contracting measles on a flight from New York to Tel Aviv, Israel's health ministry and local media said Wednesday. Rotem Amitai, 43, and a mother of three, was hospitalized in March following the flight with Israeli airline ...
Scientists hail promise of first effective Ebola treatments in Congo trial
Scientists are a step closer to finding the first effective treatments for the deadly Ebola hemorrhagic fever after two potential drugs showed encouraging survival results in a clinical trial in Congo. Two experimental drugs — Regeneron's REGN-EB3 and a monoclonal antibody called mAb114 — were ...
1,800 dead as malaria 'epidemic' rages in Burundi, U.N. says
Malaria has killed more than 1,800 people in Burundi this year, the U.N.'s humanitarian agency says, a death toll rivaling a deadly Ebola outbreak in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. In its latest situation report, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ...
World Bank deploys $300 million more to Congo to contain Ebola outbreak
The World Bank announced Wednesday it was deploying another $300 million in crisis aid for DR Congo to help contain the Ebola outbreak. The grants and credits come after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the current outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, ...
