WHO releases landmark report on priority medicines
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A World Health Organization (WHO) report released Thursday highlights world medicine priorities. The report, named &quot;Priority Medicines for Europe and the World&quot;,recommends ways
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The World Health Organisation says international drug companies and governments must speed up production of bird flu vaccines or risk a pandemic which could kill thousands of people.
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The new epicenter of the global AIDS pandemic is Asia, and its new faces are Asia&#39;s young girls and women. This was highlighted by a recent United Nations report on HIV/AIDS and the theme
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for more efforts and measures to protect people from blood contamination and shortage in response to the spread of HIV/AIDS and other blood-born diseases.
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The world's biggest drug makers unveiled  plans on Thursday to publish more data about clinical trials of  their medicines in a bid to reassure patients about their  safety.
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The World Health Organization  launched an initiative on Monday to improve medical services  for the elderly in a bid to tackle the growing public health  implications of a rapidly aging global population.
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LONDON, Aug 29 (IPS) - A London conference of non-governmental   organisations will set ''clear and  coherent'' new priorities to take  forward the  agreements on reproductive health reached in Cairo ten years   back.
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The World Health Organization has for the first time asked the maker of the anti-bird flu drug Tamiflu to ready the global stockpile after human-to-human transmission was suspected in a family cluster in Indonesia, a WHO official said Saturday.
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African Union (AU) Commission has called on its member states to mainstream traditional medicine research into HIV/AIDS control programs and all aspects of development planning and implementation.
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A task force led by the US Surgeon General is still drafting its report on drug importation, but one conclusion is already clear: Savvy shoppers can find
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Care for people with chronic disease must be improved, a manifesto published by leading health organisations says
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The World Health Organisation launched an initiative on Monday to improve medical services for the elderly in a bid to tackle the growing public health implications of a rapidly ageing global population.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) released these results prior to publication of the St. Jude report because of their significance for public health.
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The World Health Organization launched on Monday its first intergovernmental review of the pharmaceutical sector to try to find ways of making medicine more easily available to the world's poorest people.
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A detailed breakdown of NHS spending shows money is reaching key health priority, the government says.
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Heart diseases and strokes kill 17 million people every year - more than any other cause - and are increasingly likely to afflict people in poor countries, the World Health Organisation said today as it published an atlas mapping the scale of the global
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PRETORIA -- Ranbaxy Laboratories in India withdrew seven antiretroviral drugs for AIDS patients last month from the World Health Organization list of prequalified medicines. The company acknowledged that it did not complete proper lab tests to make sure its copycat drugs were equivalent with brand-name ones.