A World Health Organization panel calls climate change a global health emergency but forgets to adjust its data for age.

The recent Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks, respectively in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, and on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, remind us that the next health crisis is never far ...

As the world emerged from a global pandemic, the World Health Organization began drafting a legal agreement to respond to future pandemics. Since then, the document has been a target of misinformation ...

The declaration came after more than 300 suspected cases and 88 deaths. All the cases are in Congo, except for two recorded in neighboring Uganda.

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The Ebola outbreak spreading throughout Central Africa is the first major outbreak since the Trump administration demolished its global health programs and largely withdrew from the world stage last ...

This cross-national comparison of health care systems assesses U.S. health spending, outcomes, status, and service use ...

Prominent scholars are calling for very deep reform of the World Health Organization, including its funding, management, and ...

Yellow fever, caused and spread by the yellow fever mosquito, hasn't been a major public health concern since the 1800s, but its reemergence in the past five decades may be cause for concern, ...

Everything you need to know about the Bundibugyo virus outbreak that has prompted the WHO to declare it a global health emergency.