On March 20, just after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic on March 11, the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) sent a cable to U.S. State Department instructing officials how they should speak about ...
The 2005 regulations pushed on the World Health Organization by the United States and the Europeans hampered the WHO’s ability to declare an emergency and a pandemic. When U.S. President Donald Trump cut off his government’s funding ...
Grammy-winning music superstar Lady Gaga is teaming up with the World Health Organization to raise money and awareness with a global televised special in support of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The Oscar-winning singer ...
K.K. Shailaja is the health minister in the Left Democratic Front government in Kerala, the state in the southwest of India that has a population of 35 million people. On January 25, 2020, she convened ...
“STIs have a profound impact on the health of adults and children worldwide. If untreated, they can lead to serious and chronic health effects that include neurological and cardiovascular disease, infertility, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirths, and ...
Malaria is still one of the biggest killers of children worldwide, taking the lives of over 200,000 children every year. -Dr. Seth Berkley Last week the World Health Organization (WHO) published a press release and ...
The conference will focus on how evolving food safety systems need to keep pace with how food is produced and consumed. The World Health Organization (WHO) is organizing a major conference on food safety next ...
“‘Virginity testing’ has no scientific or clinical basis. There is no examination that can prove a girl or woman has had sex.” “WHO, UN Human Rights and UN Women have today issued a statement calling ...
In November the UN will review marijuana’s drug status, a move that prompted the FDA asked the public for comments on marijuana and the potential impact of reclassifying marijuana’s drug status. Who says the federal ...
Indonesia continues the sexually violent practice of virginity tests despite international pressure to cease the practice. In 2017, the Indonesian National Police put an end to the intrusive ‘virginity tests’ female applicants were required to ...
The World Health Organization is not considering Ebola in the Congo a ‘global emergency’ at this time, but the likelihood is high the disease will spread to neighboring countries. Although the Ebola virus is once ...
Other than being a leading cause of death worldwide, air pollution is now also a leading cause of severe brain damage, according to a new study which has linked air pollution to decreasing levels of ...
The jury deliberation of the Johnson vs. Monsanto case began this week after closing arguments debating the tie between Roundup herbicide and Non-Hodgkins lymphoma were voiced Tuesday. The verdict of this high-profile case in the ...
Scientists are trying to grapple with how a Liberian woman who was cured of Ebola during the West African Ebola outbreak of 2014 – 2016 infected family members more than a year later. The revelation ...
Just the mention of the word Ebola is enough to send chills down the spines of many folks. The killer disease endemic in Central Africa is viewed as a death sentence and is responsible for ...
One woman chose to keep her both breasts rather than get one removed. To her, it was better to die from cancer than to be called a mutilated woman, or worse, get divorced. Breast cancer ...
The live oral polio vaccine is mutating and replicating wild polio. Polio is rare, very rare thanks to modern medicine. However, for the first time ever mutated forms of the oral polio vaccine paralyzed more ...