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Even before COVID turned the world upside down, the World Health Organisation (WHO) identified reluctance to take vaccines as one of the ten biggest threats to global health.

Hamas says talks aimed at a truce and hostage-prisoner exchange in Gaza were ‘serious and positive’.

Three years ago, Andrea Vanek was studying to be an arts and crafts teacher when spells of dizziness and heart palpitations suddenly started to make it impossible for her to even take short walks.

The polio vaccine has all but obliterated the illness that once killed thousands and paralyzed 15,000 people nationwide every year.

More than 500 cases of unknown illness have emerged in rural, remote Panzi in western Democratic Republic of the Congo.

As the holiday season approaches, COVID cases are rising again in Australia, particularly in Victoria and Tasmania.

Several schools in Delhi close during winter for at least two weeks because of high air pollution levels. Every winter, widespread crop burning in north India and weather conditions add to the already high air pollution levels from traffic, industry and waste burning, which build a thick smog, block sunlight,…

Deaths from malaria have returned to pre-Covid levels, but the World Health Organization (WHO) says progress remains too slow in fighting a disease that killed 597,000 people last year.

Nigeria is the latest African country to give a new malaria vaccine to young childen

Some 3.8 million deaths from 2009 to 2019 can be linked to air pollution levels staying above national air quality guidelines

Mysterious flu-like illness in southwest Congo possibly linked to malaria, affecting children. Efforts to contain outbreak and provide medical assistance o...