When Donald Trump returns to the White House, he's expected to issue a series of orders with far-reaching impact on global ...

Quezon City.  Despite the global ban, the EcoWaste Coalition continues to uncover the illegal use of mercury in unauthorized ...

Google the most violent region of the world and Latin America will come up. Violence in the region takes many forms and ...

Ooh, that’s a big one,” Donald Trump said Monday as he signed an executive order – one of dozens during his first hours as ...

The United States will leave the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health ...

The WHO is a United Nations agency that aims to expand universal health coverage, coordinates responses to health emergencies ...

Under threat: the European Southern Observatory’s flagship Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert is home to the Very Large Telescope (courtesy: G.Hüdepohl/ESO) The darkest, clearest skies ...

"The bottom line is that withdrawing from the WHO makes Americans and the world less safe," says Dr. Tom Frieden, president ...

An investigation by the World Bank and Chile’s Health Ministry confirmed large discrepancies between the public and private health sectors. “People have realized that you have to train many ...

Trump had started the process of leaving the World Health Organization in his first term but was not able to complete it.

When the plague, cholera and yellow fever rippled deadly waves across a newly industrialised and interconnected world in the mid-19th century, taking a global approach to health became an imperative.

The World Health Organization appealed Thursday for $1.5 billion for emergency operations this year, warning that conflict, climate change, epidemics and displacement had converged to create an ...