Tag: World Health Organization

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WHO wants to ban trans fats – that’s just one reason they should be defunded

wolf-von-laer, Frederik Roeder · May 15, 2018 6:31 pm

Health worker wearing protective clothing and equipment. Ebola cases have been confirmed in 10 African countries, including Congo where the disease was first reported in 1976.

Experimental Ebola vaccine heads to Congo as death toll reaches 19

Kimberly Leonard · May 14, 2018 6:27 pm

Former President Bill Clinton wipes his eye as his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, concedes her defeat to Republican Donald Trump on Nov. 9, 2016.

One dead from Ebola outbreak in Congo, health minister says

Melissa Quinn · May 10, 2018 8:59 pm

FILE - In this undated colorized transmission electron micrograph file image made available by the CDC shows an Ebola virus virion. Health authorities are investigating nine suspected cases of Ebola in a remote corner of northern Congo, including two deaths, the country's health minister said Friday May 12, 2017.

Congo confirms two cases of Ebola

Robert King · May 8, 2018 4:56 pm

In this 2017 photo, dairy cows eat hay at the University of New Hampshire's Organic Dairy Research Farm in Lee, N.H. Those who wish to reduce the amount of antibiotics in the meat supply are eyeing on a set of bills that would speed up the approval of medicines for animals. They wish to attach language to the law that would restrict or add more reporting requirements on the use of antibiotics in livestock.

Stricter rules for antibiotics eyed for bills on animal drug fees

Kimberly Leonard · March 6, 2018 5:01 am

Congress is asking questions because the International Agency for Research on Cancer findings on the carcinogenicity of certain chemicals, personal behaviors, and environmental factors often diverge from mainstream science. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo, File)

Congressional oversight weeds out corrupt international junk science

julie-kelly, Jeff Stier · February 16, 2018 5:01 am

People watch a TV screen showing file footage of North Korea's missile launch at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, on Nov. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Trump lacks leverage over North Korea in nuclear showdown

Washington Examiner Staff · January 9, 2018 5:01 am

Under a draft of the International Classification of Diseases, which isn't final yet, the World Health Organization is considering whether it should add "gaming disorder" to its list of mental health conditions in 2018. The WHO would define it as "a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behavior, which may be online or offline." (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Excessive gaming could become a mental disorder

Kimberly Leonard · December 26, 2017 5:32 pm

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported over 18,000 deaths related to opioid overdose in the U.S. in 2014. In 2015 that number nearly doubled and 45 percent of those deaths involved a prescription. (iStock)

A better strategy for treating chronic pain: Rely less on opioids

Paul Christo · November 1, 2017 4:01 am

A boat crowded with construction workers capsized in the Yamuna River in northern India early Thursday and more than a dozen people have drowned, officials said. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Beltway Confidential

Here’s why you shouldn’t complain about your commute

Tom Rogan · September 18, 2017 12:44 pm

The U.N. is failing its mission to make the world a better and safer place, and it continues to lose credibility. It legitimizes corrupt, destabilizing regimes that violate the human rights of their citizens, it lacks accountability, and it wastes a lot of money. (samdiesel / iStock)

It’s time for serious United Nations reform

Rep. Francis Rooney · September 18, 2017 4:01 am

The World Health Organization confirmed that a laboratory-confirmed case of Ebola emerged in the central African country of Congo. (AP)

Africa has new Ebola outbreak

Robert King · May 12, 2017 4:33 pm