The Republican-controlled US Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary Thursday, elevating his anti-vaccine ...

The United States' pause on foreign aid contributions is having a serious impact on global health, hitting programmes ...

The New York State Department of Health on Tuesday confirmed its first case of the new mpox strain, adding to the global ...

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The U.S. is pulling the plug on its membership with the World Health Organization. What does that mean for Illinois?

On this day in 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) named a disease spreading from Wuhan, China COVID-19.

The World Health Organization on Tuesday wrapped up its executive board meeting, held against the backdrop of the United ...

Most of the world's population is exposed to polluted air, and for those living in cities with chronically bad air, the smog ...

US withdrawal from the WHO and of all foreign aid will have dire consequences for Africa. It’s time the continent took ...

The writer says infectious diseases know no borders. COVID-19 is a recent, devastating reminder of how quickly diseases spread across the globe.

Over the course of two decades, China has built a public health aid program for the world, turbocharged by the pandemic. As ...

A more infectious strain of mpox that triggered a public health emergency across Central and Eastern Africa last year has ...