One in eight people worldwide is now obese: WHO warns
NEW YORK: At least one in eight people on Earth are living with obesity, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, citing a newly released global medical study.
That’s one…
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Gaza has become a ‘death zone’, warns WHO chief
GENEVA: World Health Organization (WHO) chief warned that an “inhumane” health and humanitarian situation now prevails across Gaza with conditions continuing to deteriorate.
“Gaza has…
WHO urges tobacco-style controls on vapes
GENEVA: The World Health Organization on Thursday urged governments to apply tobacco-style controls to vapes, saying they are getting new users hooked on nicotine.
Analysts and investors…
ICRC, WHO, UNHRC decry attack on Gaza hospital
GENEVA: The International Red Cross and the World Health Organization (WHO) expressed outrage and shock after a hospital in Gaza was destroyed and hundreds were killed.
The organizations…
Five billion people exposed to trans-fat, leading cause for heart disease
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addressed the press at the World Health Organization's headquarters in Geneva and called out countries globally who are unable to curtail the…
Two years into the pandemic, is the end in sight?
Two years after the official start of the pandemic, some countries are now trying to "live with Covid", however scientists warn that potential new variants and unequal vaccination rates…
England scraps compulsory self-isolation period for Covid cases
Johnson pushed ahead with the changes despite news that Queen Elizabeth II had tested positive for the first time, calling it "a reminder that this virus has not gone away"
WHO warns of Covid ‘tsunami’ as Omicron fuels record surges
A Covid "tsunami" threatens to overwhelm healthcare systems, the WHO said Wednesday, as record surges fuelled by the Omicron variant dampened New Year celebrations around the world once…
Omicron risk remains ‘very high’: WHO
The risk posed by the Omicron variant is still "very high", the World Health Organization said Wednesday, after Covid-19 case numbers shot up by 11 percent globally last week.
Omicron is…
Biden says US ‘prepared’ for Omicron as Israel calls for 4th shots
President Joe Biden on Tuesday told Americans worried about the rapidly spreading Omicron coronavirus variant that the country was "prepared" to fight it, as Israel -- which pioneered the…
Pfizer says Covid pill drastically reduces severe disease
Pfizer said Tuesday that clinical trials confirmed its Covid pill -- a new type of treatment that should withstand the mutations seen with the Omicron variant -- drastically reduced…
Omicron may pose higher reinfection risk but could be milder than Delta: WHO chief
Early data indicates the Omicron Covid variant may more easily reinfect people who have already had the virus or been vaccinated than previous variants, but could also cause milder disease,…
Omicron poses very high global risk, world must prepare -WHO
Says overall global risk "assessed as very high"
Urges member states to vaccinate, shore up health systems
"Uncertainties" on degree of vaccine immunity
Tedros: shows how "perilous and…
PCRs detect Omicron, studies under way for other tests: WHO
While PCR tests can detect infection with Omicron, studies are looking to whether the Covid-19 variant of concern has any impact on other test types, the WHO said Sunday.
"The widely-used…
First Wuhan Covid case days later than initially reported: scientist
The first case of Covid-19 identified in Wuhan, China and presented as such by the World Health Organization was actually days later than previously believed and at an animal market, a top…