The World Health Organisation called Tuesday for urgently scaling up care for neurological conditions, which impact more than three billion people globally, insisting many could be prevented or treated with the right services.
One in three doctors and nurses in Europe report suffering from depression or anxiety, a study published Friday by the European branch of the World Health Organisation said.
OCTOBER 7 will mark the second anniversary of Israel鈥檚 ongoing genocide in Gaza. The World Health Organisation鈥檚 data page on Palestinian casualties, regularly updated using figures from the Palestinian health ministry and UN agencies, shows that around 66,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza over the last two years 鈥� 30 out of every 1,000 people who were...
Nearly 42,000 people, a quarter of them children, have suffered 鈥榣ife-changing injuries鈥� including amputations, and head and spinal cord injuries in Israel鈥檚 war in Gaza, the World Health Organisation said Thursday.
There are not enough new tests and treatments in the pipeline to tackle the growing spread of drug-resistant bacteria, the World Health Organisation warned Thursday...
Neither the painkiller Tylenol nor vaccines have been shown to cause autism, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, following comments from the US president and his administration to the contrary.
PUBLIC transports remains fatally unsafe for passengers as the interim government has so far kept the sector off its reform agenda. The Passengers Welfare Association of Bangladesh on September 13 reported that at least 86,690 people died and 153,257 became wounded in 62,619 road accidents in 11 years. The number of fatalities, however shocking, is not surprising as...
The World Health Organisation recommended a range of blockbuster weight-loss drugs to treat diabetes and obesity globally for the first time on Friday, calling for cheap generic versions to be made available for people in developing countries.
The average Bangladeshi people could live 5.5 years longer if particulate pollution met the World Health Organisation guideline of 5 碌g/m, said a new report on Thursday...
The World Health Organisation said Thursday that 99 people were now known to have died from malnutrition in the Gaza Strip so far this year, with the figure likely an underestimate...
The Gambia reported an outbreak of mpox on Tuesday with detection of a single case, as several nearby countries have recorded recent increases in infections...
The World Health Organization has placed its regional director for the South East Asia Regional Office, Saima Wazed Putul, on leave for an indefinite period from Friday...
Fighting back tears, the head of the World Health Organisation on Thursday urged Israel to have 鈥榤ercy鈥� in the Gaza war and insisted peace would be in Israel鈥檚 own interests.
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said Israeli attacks on Monday killed at least 52 people, as the military pressed a newly intensified campaign in the war-ravaged territory...
The World Health Organisation chief acknowledged Tuesday that United States funding cuts had left the UN agency with a huge budget gap, forcing it to slash operations and lay off staff...
The UNICEF, UNFPA and the World Health Organisation on Monday said that Bangladesh's progress in maternal health could be at risk due to announced and potential funding cuts by key development partners.
NOISE pollution in Bangladesh has reached an intolerable level. It now affects daily life, damages health, and disrupts the environment. The cities echo with constant sound 鈥� horns blaring, construction hammering, music blaring from speakers and engines roaring. Rural areas, once peaceful, are also no longer free from this intrusion. The situation is worst in major...
The World Health Organisation said Monday 80 per cent of services that it supports in Afghanistan could shut down by June due to a funding shortage...
A POLICY attention on ensuring access to basic sanitation facilities has left other relevant concerns such as faecal waste management and water and sanitation infrastructure maintenance unattended for decades. Experts, entrepreneurs, academics and development partners at a conference in Dhaka on February 25 called for addressing gaps in sanitation facilities. They have...
The World Health Organisation launched on Tuesday a new platform providing cost-free cancer medicines for thousands of children living in low- and middle-income countries, in a bid to improve lagging survival rates.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday said that it did not have any information about Canadian citizenship of Saima Wazed Putul, daughter of the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who was appointed as regional director for South-East Asia at the World Health Organisation in the past year...
An attack on the main hospital in El-Fasher, a besieged town in western Sudan, has killed 70 people and wounded 19 others, the World Health Organisation chief said on Sunday....
EVERY 40 seconds, someone dies by suicide. According to the World Health Organisation, over 700,000 people take their own lives every year. While suicide is often the result of untreated mental health conditions such as depression, schizophrenia, or addiction, it is not inevitable. It is preventable. Yet, for many, suicide appears to be the only escape from...
The World Health Organisation said Sunday it was ready to pour much-needed aid into Gaza during the Israel-Hamas truce, but that it would need 鈥榮ystematic access鈥� across the territory to do so.
The Anti-Corruption Commission will send corruption information about the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 daughter, Saima Wazed Putul, to the聽 World Health Organisation through the foreign affairs ministry.
World Health Organisation estimates that 9,600 drowning fatalities in 2021 in Bangladesh dropped significantly from 21,112 deaths of 2018.
The World Health Organisation voiced alarm Thursday at recent attacks in Sudan鈥檚 war-ravaged Darfur region, which it said had killed dozens of people and injured many more.
VIOLENCE against women and girls has been found to be the deadliest, most prevalent, and most pervasive human rights violation in every community across the world, be it rich or poor, literate or illiterate, developed or undeveloped, resulting in the sad demise of a woman every 10 minutes globally. Such omnipresence of violence poses operational challenges for designing protocols and interventions...
Nearly 230 health workers have been killed in Lebanon since the start of Israel鈥檚 war in Gaza following the October 7 attacks last year, the World Health Organisation said Friday.
Youths in Europe, Canada and Central Asia feel less family support and more school pressure than before, the World Health Organisation warned Wednesday, urging countries to improve teens鈥� social environments...
