“Ooh, that’s a big one,” Donald Trump said Monday as he signed an executive order – one of dozens during his first hours as president – to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization ...

Three of the world's top health agencies issued a joint statement Sunday denouncing the international community's failure to ...

A suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean has killed three people and sickened at least three ...

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LONDON — The World Health Organization plans to officially back the use of weight-loss drugs to treat obesity in adults for the first time, a memo reviewed by Reuters on Thursday shows, marking a ...

Andrew Joseph covers health, medicine, and the biopharma industry in Europe. You can reach Andrew on Signal at drewqjoseph.71. GENEVA — The U.S. has been accused of acting as an 800-pound gorilla on ...

The World Health Organization on Tuesday said progress in eliminating hepatitis was too slow, with tools available to ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed that three people on board are suspected to have died from the disease, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Omer Awan is a practicing physician who covers public health. For the first time ever, the World Health Organization has ...