PUTRAJAYA, April 8 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) is kicking off the year-long "Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures" campaign, calling for immediate and decisive actions to ensure every mother and newborn receives quality healthcare to commemorate World Health Day 2025.

GENEVA, April 8 — Another pandemic will occur sooner or later, and this is not a "theoretical risk" but an "epidemiological certainty," World Health Organisation (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned on Monday.

CANBERRA, Feb 4 — Research led by Australia's nuclear and radiation safety agency has found no link between mobile phone use and various cancers, reported Xinhua.

GENEVA, Oct 23 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday that the polio vaccination campaign in northern Gaza has been postponed due to heavy Israeli bombing and displacement, the German news agency (dpa) reported.

MANILA, Aug 19 — The Philippines has detected a new case of the mpox virus in the country, the first since December last year, its health department said today, adding it was awaiting test results before being able to determine the strain.

STOCKHOLM/CHICAGO, Aug 16 — Global health officials yesterday confirmed an infection with a new strain of the mpox virus in Sweden and linked it to a growing outbreak in Africa, the first sign of its spread outside the continent a day after the World Health Organization declared the disease a global public health emergency.

GENEVA, June 21 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned today that scorching heat in the Gaza Strip could exacerbate health problems for Palestinians displaced by Israeli bombardment and heavy fighting between its forces and Hamas.

AMMAN, June 13 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced that more than 8,000 children aged under five in the Gaza Strip have been treated for acute malnutrition, including 1,600 suffering from severe acute malnutrition, resulting in 28 deaths, Jordan News Agency reported.

LONDON, June 2 — Talks aimed at reaching a global agreement on how to better fight pandemics will be concluded by 2025 or earlier if possible, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.

LONDON, April 19 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) and around 500 experts have agreed for the first time what it means for a disease to spread through the air, in a bid to avoid the confusion early in the Covid-19 pandemic that some scientists have said cost lives.

RAMALLAH, April 18 — World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, on Wednesday, renewed calls to provide protection for all hospitals in the Gaza Strip.

ABUJA — Nigeria has become the first country in the world to roll out the "revolutionary" new Men5CV vaccine against meningitis, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

PUTRAJAYA, April 7 — Malaysia has initiated a comprehensive healthcare education programme in collaboration with the World Health Organisation aimed at promoting preventive healthcare practices and increasing awareness of the significance of early medical intervention.

GENEVA, April 7 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday said the massive destruction inflicted on Gaza’s largest hospital, reduced to “an empty shell” with human graves following the latest Israeli siege.

AMMAN, March 24 — Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, demanded that Israeli occupation forces immediately lift their siege of the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza city.

LONDON, March 1 — More than a billion people globally are now considered obese, a condition linked to an increased risk of numerous serious health problems, according to updated estimates from the World Health Organization and an international group of researchers.

JAKARTA, Feb 9 — Indonesia's Health Ministry and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have signed the Grant Agreement and Joint Work Plan WHO Biennium 2024-2025, to support the implementation of various health programmes.

GENEVA, Jan 5 — Covid-19 cases increased by 52 per cent globally ahead of the Christmas holiday period, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.

LONDON, Dec 22 — The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday said "carnage must stop," in Gaza, where the Palestinian death toll has climbed to 20,000.

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