The Latest Breaking News from WHO

Rates of vaping among 13 to 15-year-olds are ‘on average nine times higher than the prevalence among adults’, the World Health Organisation said

Despite 15 countries having taken steps towards more comprehensively allowing abortion since 2021, only five EU countries have gone ahead with full decriminalisation.

Experts point to study showing procedures at home are no riskier or less successful than hospital care

Who do you personally know whose life was turned upside down in mere moments?

Cambridge graduate Paloma Shemirani died after refusing cancer treatment and following her conspiracy theorist mother’s ‘alternative’ treatment plan.

The Who: From pill-popping mod figureheads to Woodstock-generation rockers and beyond

As the waters recede, a surge in cases of cholera, diarrhoea, malaria and dengue has compounded the misery of people who have already seen their homes and crops disappear

Merck Co. Inc. (NYSE:MRK) announced results Tuesday from its Phase 3 HYPERION trial evaluating Winrevair (sotatercept-csrk) versus placebo (both in combination with background therapy) in recently diagnosed adults with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH, WHO Group 1) functional class (FC) II or III at intermediate or high risk of disease progression.

According to the WHO, one in 127 adults was diagnosed with autism in 2021. Although awareness of developmental delays has been increasing in the past few years, effective therapeutic interventions remain out of reach for many.