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The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that is concerned with international public health.
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Margaret Chan, who has steered the World Health Organization through crises over bird flu and the respiratory SARS bug, has won a second five-year term as its director-general.The World Health Assembly, which oversees the U.N. health agency, on Wednesday reappointed Chan, during a closed-door session. She ran unopposed.An agency statement quoted Chan, who has Chinese nationality, as saying she will fight for universal health coverage as "the single most powerful concept that public health has to offer. It is a powerful equalizer."Chan, a Canadian-trained medical doctor who was health director in Hong Kong before going to work for WHO in 2003, also was quoted as saying that uncertainty over international health funding is a top priority.Her second term runs until June 30, 2017....
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Scientists have mapped the complete genetic codes of 21 breast cancers and created a catalogue of the mutations that accumulate in breast cells, raising hopes that t...
The number of measles deaths worldwide has apparently dropped by about three-quarters over a decade, according to a new study by the World Health Organization and ot...
Rapidly developing nations – such as China, India and Brazil – that want an increased role in decision-making at the United Nations are among the stingiest donors to...
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization declared the swine flu pandemic officially over Tuesday, months after many national authorities started canceling vaccine...
At the annual meeting of the governing body of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland Tuesday, a committee of world leaders decided to keep, for now, t...
GENEVA -- The World Health Organization says Japan needs to act quickly and ban food sales from areas around the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant if the food there is...
The World Health Organization says Tokyo's radiation levels are increasing but still not a health risk and it sees no reason to ban travel to Japan because of its nu...
GENEVA -- The World Health Organization says Tokyo's radiation levels are increasing but still not a health risk and it sees no reason to ban travel to Japan because...
The World Health Organization says the number of children wounded in violence in Somalia increased significantly in May after heavy fighting near Mogadishu's main ma...
The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations ' public health arm, is moving full speed ahead with a controversial plan to impose global consumer taxes on ...
Earlier this week, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a report demonstrating a rise in the number of human organs being sold on the black market. According...
Nearly 11,000 organs were bought on the black market in 2010, a sign that the illegal organ trade is booming, according to the World Health Organization.There were n...
A year after an earthquake and tsunami triggered the Fukushima disaster, a United Nations agency preparing a report on the health effects says none of the six former...
There are smoke-free bars, smoke-free parks, even smoke-free college campuses. But a smoke-free country?New Zealand's government on Thursday squeezed smokers more th...
It's 10 a.m., and the 2-year-old is still waiting for breakfast. Aliou Seyni Diallo collapses to his knees in tears and plops his forehead down on the dirt outside h...
The World Health Organization says its members are poised to agree to a target of cutting a quarter of premature deaths from chronic diseases by 2025.It is the first...
A year after Japan's nuclear accident at Fukushima, the World Health Organization says several areas near the plant had radiation above cancer-causing levels but mos...
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