Healthcare
At the 73rd Session of the World Health Assembly, Member States overwhelmingly endorsed a resolution calling for urgent action on meningitis prevention and control through the implementation of a bold, comprehensive global roadmap to defeat meningitis by ...
Public settings, such as schools, childcare centres, nursing homes, hospitals and correctional facilities and all other canteens of public institutions, can play a key role in ensuring people are provided with healthy food and helping ...
Global scientists are intensifying research into COVID-19, as the World Health Organization (WHO) moves to expand its scientific collaboration and monitoring of emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. A day-long virtual meeting ...
NEW YORK/ GENEVA: The four leading international health and humanitarian organizations announced today the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile to ensure outbreak response. The effort to establish the stockpile was led by the ...
The NHS has kickstarted the rollout of the new Oxford AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine with patients at Oxford University Hospital the very first to get the life-saving jab. Dialysis patient Brian Pinker, who describes himself as ...
Neglected t Register now to get access over full content Register ropical diseases (NTDs) have long been a problem, so much so that the World Health Organization (WHO) and Sanofi – one of the world’s ...
Every women’s childbirth experience is different. That is why WHO and HRP launch the Labour Care Guide to help ensure the health and well-being of women and their babies. The philosophy of labour and delivery ...
The MBS (Medicare Benefits Schedule) or Better Access initiative eligibility is being expanded by the Australian Government for better access to Psychiatrists, Psychologists and General Practitioners. Aged care residents can access up to 20 individual ...
Campaign for World No Tobacco Day 2021 – “Commit to Quit.” launched by the World Health Organization. The new WHO Quit Challenge on WhatsApp and publication “More than 100 reasons to quit tobacco” are being ...
Noncommunicable diseases now make up 7 of the world’s top 10 causes of death, according to WHO’s 2019 Global Health Estimates This is an increase from 4 of the 10 leading causes in 2000. The ...
The INTERPOL Orange Notice outlines potential criminal activity in relation to the falsification, theft and illegal advertising of COVID-19 and flu vaccines, with the pandemic having already triggered unprecedented opportunistic and predatory criminal behaviour. It ...
New alcohol guidelines have been revised and released by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) for Australian’s to reduce health risks from drinking alcohol. The aim of the guidelines is to provide advice ...