DEARTH OF HEALTH PERSONNEL AROUND THE WORLD
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(AGI) - London, Nov. 27 - There is a chronic shortage of investments in human resources in the health sector around the world. This impedes forceful fighting of illnesses such as tuberculosis, AIDS, and malaria.
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Nearly 40 percent of the 128 million babies born worldwide every year are not officially registered, and two thirds of deaths also go undocumented, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
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WASHINGTON -- The World Health Organization says one in 10 hospital patients are victims of sometimes fatal medical mistakes that could have been prevented.
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Giving birth in poor countries proves fatal for more than half a million women every year, or one every minute, the World Health Organisation said, warning preventable deaths have reached epidemic levels.
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Up to 100 million people around the world could be killed in a pandemic of human influenza, a World Health Organization official warned Monday.
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Five hundred and ninety-six patients, from seven countries (Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom) were included in this retrospective analysis* of patients who originally ...
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Up to 10,000 people, many of them children, are dying each month from disease and the effects of violence in Darfur camps, the World Health Organisation said on Monday.
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Millions more health workers are needed if global health is going to be improved over the next decade, a study says.
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Seven and a half million people worldwide died from cancer in 2005 and the number of cases in the Middle East is expected to soar over the next 15 years, Moroccan news agency MAP quoted the World Health Organization as saying.
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By VERONIKA OLEKSYN  VIENNA, Austria - Tackling air pollution, contaminated drinking water and other environmental problems could save millions of lives annually around the world, the World Health Organization said in a report Wednesday.
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was a conservative estimate, said Shigeru Omi, regional director of WHO&#39;s Western Pacific Regional Office. &quot;The maximum range is more ... maybe 20 to 50 million people,&quot; Omi said in a speech in Hong Kong on Monday.
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The World Health Organization, Doctors Without Borders and other international agencies have begun rushing medical teams, generators and other equipment to provide safe drinking
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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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World Health Organisation figures show a suicide takes place somewhere in the world every 40 seconds.
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In the wake of the tsunami, local medical workers are the unsung heroes.
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Giving birth in poor countries proves fatal for more than half a million women every year, or one every minute, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday, warning preventable deaths have reached epidemic levels.
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MEXICO CITY - Many countries can&#39;t say how many of their citizens die every year or what kills them, undermining efforts to combat disease and deliver necessary medications to the sickest and poorest corners of the globe, a top health official said