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GLP-1 Drugs? Surgery? WHO Issues Guidelines for Obesity in Children
Child & adolescent health
The World Health Organization (WHO) released its first-ever guidelines to address how clinicians should manage obesity in children and adolescents, which ...
Extreme Heat Is Making Pregnancy More Dangerous for Mothers and Newborns
Health & Environment
Nearly three in four maternal healthcare workers say extreme heat-related complications among pregnant women have increased over the past five years, ...
Health Crisis Looms for Zimbabwe Following US Withdrawal of Aid
Humanitarian Crises
HARARE – In March, 27-year-old Jemitius Gangata succumbed to malaria in Mahombokombe village in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland West Province, becoming part of ...
Reclaiming ‘Health Sovereignty’: EU Gastein Forum Confronts a Fragmenting Global Order
European Health Forum - Gastein
Global health has moved from an area of mutual cooperation to one dominated by “high politics” and division, observed Ilona Kickbusch ...
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The Health Case for Investment in Clean Air in Africa 
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COVID-19 Drops Out of World’s Top 10 Causes of Death for First Time Since Pandemic Began
COVID-19 dropped out of the world’s 10 leading causes of death in 2023 for the first time since the pandemic ...
02/10/2026
Conflict May Explain Drop in Ebola Cases, as Amnesty Documents M23 ‘Abuses’ in DRC
The security situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) could be behind the significant decline in Ebola cases over ...
01/10/2026
Renewed Fighting in Yemen Brings Increased Cholera, Measles and Dengue
Thousands of people displaced by conflict in Yemen are at risk of cholera, measles, malaria and dengue as the El ...
29/09/2026
The Health Case for Investment in Clean Air in Africa 
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BREAKING: China Has Nominated Candidate for WHO Director General Whose Name Remains Undisclosed
WHO 2027 Election
Health Crisis Looms for Zimbabwe Following US Withdrawal of Aid
Humanitarian Crises
Reclaiming ‘Health Sovereignty’: EU Gastein Forum Confronts a Fragmenting Global Order
European Health Forum - Gastein
DRC’s Ebola Outbreak: The Vast Mobilisation That Doesn’t Measure Itself (Part II)
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Global Health Policy in Geneva & Worldwide
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Africa
Eastern Mediterranean
Europe
Latin America & Caribbean
North America
South-East Asia
Western Pacific
AfricaMore
BREAKING: China Has Nominated Candidate for WHO Director General Whose Name Remains Undisclosed
WHO 2027 Election
Health Crisis Looms for Zimbabwe Following US Withdrawal of Aid
Humanitarian Crises
Reclaiming ‘Health Sovereignty’: EU Gastein Forum Confronts a Fragmenting Global Order
European Health Forum - Gastein
DRC’s Ebola Outbreak: The Vast Mobilisation That Doesn’t Measure Itself (Part II)
Vital Signs in Global Health
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