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The humanitarian and health situation in Aleppo has reached critical levels5 August 2016 – Dr Hatem Abu Yazan, the General Director of the Children’s Specialised Hospital in Al Shaa’ar in eastern… [...]
The humanitarian crisis in Iraq has been one of the most rapidly unfolding in the world. The number of people requiring life-saving assistance in Iraq last year doubled, and then… [...]
An escalation of armed conflict in Yemen has resulted in hundreds dead and thousands injured. Read about WHO's response to increasing health needs in Yemen. Read more... [...]
First marked in 2001, World Refugee Day is held every year on 20 June. War and persecution have displaced and forced more than 60 million people to flee their homes… [...]
29 January 2015 - The World Health Organization deplores the recent attacks on health staff and health facilities in Afghanistan, Sudan and Yemen, and expresses deep concern about the serious… [...]
The respiratory virus season has started early in kids this year and flooded children's hospitals in many parts of the country -- especially with respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV. [...]
Higher Covid-19 vaccination rates among US children could prevent thousands of pediatric hospitalizations and millions of missed school days, according to an analysis published Tuesday by the Commonwealth Fund and… [...]
An experimental treatment, gantenerumab, failed to help people at high risk of memory loss from Alzheimer's or those who were in the early phases of the disease, the manufacturer said… [...]
The rate of premature birth in the United States is climbing, according to the infant and maternal health nonprofit March of Dimes. [...]
Even before their daughter was born in June, Aaron and Helen Chavez knew she would need heart surgery. Doctors expected her to have an operation around 6 months of age. [...]
The conflict that has put rebels in control of much of the east of the country has left victims with no legal recourse and dismantled many of the clinics that… [...]
Panel members have been given a broad mandate, despite pleas from C.D.C. employees asking Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to stop spreading misinformation. [...]
It is not just a scourge of the Middle Ages. Plague still exists, though it is rare. Here’s what to look for and how to protect yourself. [...]
Lawmakers allocated $6 billion this fiscal year for PEPFAR, the H.I.V. prevention and treatment program, but the administration has indicated it will release less than half of that. [...]
To understand the virus’s re-emergence in America in 2025, some experts are looking to a past epidemic that had a high death rate in Philadelphia. [...]