Tag: World Health Organization

Variety of raw black Angus prime meat steaks Machete, Blade on bone, Striploin, Rib eye, Tenderloin fillet mignon on wooden board.

Someone please handcuff the global ‘food police’

Will Coggin · January 30, 2019 5:00 am

Beltway Confidential

While WHO gets distracted by climate change and gaming, it’s missing chances to really save lives

Philip Thompson · January 23, 2019 1:30 pm

A man wearing a face mask in China walks on a footbridge as buildings are shrouded in haze.

Energy and Environment

Trump should embrace ‘America First’ environmentalism

Surya Gunasekara · December 4, 2018 5:00 am

An Indian health worker fumigates an area to prevent the spread of mosquito-borne diseases in Allahabad, India, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. More than 200 million people live in impoverished Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state. Thousands of people suffer from encephalitis, malaria, typhoid and other mosquito-borne diseases each year during the summer monsoon.

Malaria progress is stalling out, World Health Organization warns

Robert King · November 19, 2018 3:49 pm

A showdown is brewing between the Obama administration and Republicans over climate change.

Energy and Environment

Pollution kills 600,000 children a year, WHO warns

Kimberly Leonard · October 29, 2018 12:07 pm

Nurse Nicole Simpson prepares a flu shot from a vaccine vile at the Salvation Army in Atlanta, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018. The U.S. government's latest flu report released on Friday, Feb. 2, 2018, showed flu season continued to intensify the previous week, with high volumes of flu-related patient traffic in 42 states, up from 39 the week before.

First flu season death was unvaccinated child in Florida

Anna Giaritelli · October 15, 2018 2:26 pm

In this photo taken Sunday, Sept 9, 2018, a health worker sprays disinfectant on his colleague after working at an Ebola treatment centre in Beni, Eastern Congo. The current Ebola outbreak in northeastern Congo has become a testing ground with one aid group for the first time treating confirmed Ebola victims in individual biosecure units used in emergencies involving highly infectious diseases.

Ebola death toll rises to 122 in Congo

Kimberly Leonard · October 12, 2018 11:56 am

Adolescents are drinking less in Europe: WHO

Maria Biery · September 26, 2018 5:44 pm

World leaders commit to plan to fight tuberculosis

Robert King · September 26, 2018 1:29 pm

In this photo taken Sunday, Sept 9, 2018, health workers walk with a boy suspected of having the Ebola virus at an Ebola treatment centre in Beni, Eastern Congo. The current Ebola outbreak in northeastern Congo has become a testing ground with one aid group for the first time treating confirmed Ebola victims in individual biosecure units used in emergencies involving highly infectious diseases.

WHO fears ‘perfect storm’ in Congo’s Ebola outbreak

Kimberly Leonard · September 25, 2018 12:22 pm

President Trump and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley talk with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 24, 2018, at U.N. Headquarters.

Beltway Confidential

The UN can boost global health by simply protecting IP rights

Philip Thompson · September 25, 2018 4:00 am

Rick Santorum, former senator from Pennsylvania, listens during a Senate Finance Committee hearing to consider the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson proposal in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Sept. 25, 2017. Senators sponsoring a last-ditch Obamacare repeal bill raced to save it from near-certain death Sunday, circulating a new version aimed at winning over several GOP holdouts.

World Health Organization calls for restrictions on alcohol

Kimberly Leonard · September 21, 2018 7:12 pm