DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Bill and Melinda Gates said on Friday they would spend $10 billion over the next decade to develop and ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - The H1N1 flu pandemic may not be conquered until 2011 and continued vigilance is required against the virus which can ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Despite living six to eight years longer than men, women lack essential health care throughout their lives, particularly as teenagers and elderly people, the World Health Organization said on Monday. In a report, the WHO said that women around ...
WHO: AIDS leading cause of death, disease for women of child bearing age In its first study of women's health around the globe, the World Health Organization said Monday that the AIDS virus is the leading cause of death and disease among ...
In its first study of women's health around the globe, the World Health Organization said Monday that the AIDS virus is the leading cause of death and disease among women between the ages of 15 and 44. Unsafe sex is the leading ...
Women are often deprived of health care in the crucial years of adolescence and old age due to social inequalities and neglect in male dominated decision-making, the World Health Organisation said Monday. "It's time to pay girls and women back, to make ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Despite living six to eight years longer than men, women lack essential health care throughout their lives, particularly as teenagers and elderly people, the World Health Organization said on Monday. In a report, the WHO said that women around ...
HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro "looks wonderful," World Health Organization director general Margaret Chan said on Wednesday, after meeting the 83-year-old who resigned the presidency last year due to ailing health. Chan, speaking at the end of her first ...
Childhood immunization rates reached an all-time high around the world last year and vaccine development is booming, the World Health Organization and the World Bank said in a report Wednesday. Despite the record 106 million vaccinations the report said 24 million children ...
The swine flu virus hasn't mutated into a more deadly strain but there are some signs it is developing resistance to current treatments, the World Health Organization's chief said Monday. Authorities are monitoring closely whether the virus was morphing into more virulent ...
The head of the World Health Organization said Monday the swine flu virus had apparently not yet mutated into a more serious disease, but she is concerned about poorer nations' access to vaccines. The number of swine flu cases is expected to ...
The head of the World Health Organization said Monday that the swine flu virus had apparently not yet mutated into a more serious disease and that the development of vaccines was proceeding on track. The vaccines for (A)H1N1 influenza produced so far ...
