My Health My Right the theme for world health day this year
World Health Day is an annual global health awareness campaign celebrated on 7 April, organised by the World Health Organization (WHO).
World Health Day is an annual global health awareness campaign celebrated on 7 April, organised by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The (IPU) and (WHO) today signed a new (MoU), reaffirming the critical role that parliamentarians play in enabling good health to foster stable and equitable societies.
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has called on Israel to halt its ground assault on Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, saying 1.2 million people there have nowhere safe to go.
Colon cancer or colorectal cancer is a type of cancer that begins in the colon or rectum. The colon and rectum are parts of the digestive system, responsible for processing food and eliminating waste.
According to the latest estimates in the World Health Organization (WHO) tobacco trends report, there are 1.25 billion adult tobacco users in the world.
"...It takes between 150 and 300 vials of the drug to treat a single patient, and a vial can cost up to $69 in India"
The Delta variant also referred to as a "double mutant", is 55 percent more transmissible than the Alpha variant,
A notable feat for a country that reported 30 million cases of the disease annually in the 1940s, said WHO.
This piece of news gains significance in light of the Delta variant (B16172) that has now spread to at least 92 countries, hence becoming a dominant variant worldwide.
While the number of cases reported globally now exceeds 177 million, last week saw the lowest weekly case incidence since February 2021