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Life & Style Published 30 Jun, 2023 06:58pm

WHO to link artificial sweetner found in cold drinks to cancer

Consumers and food companies will have to decide whether to fight back or find alternatives

Life & Style Published 12 May, 2023 12:13pm

Wegovy, other weight loss drugs ‘no silver bullet’, says WHO amid obesity review

The WHO last issued global guidelines on the topic in 2000

World Published 25 Apr, 2023 10:51pm

High bio-hazard risk’ in Sudan after laboratory seized, WHO says

Humanitarian efforts have been paralysed by the level of fighting

Pakistan Updated 24 Apr, 2023 11:25pm

Pakistan and Malawi hit by malaria after ‘climate-driven’ disasters

Waters left after floods amplified the disease manifold

World Published 08 Apr, 2023 02:00pm

China CDC urges WHO to take ‘scientific, fair’ position on COVID origins

Shen Hongbing warned the WHO against politicising the source of the virus

Life & Style Published 24 Mar, 2023 01:03am

Elon Musk, WHO chief spar on Twitter over UN agency’s role

Musk says countries should not 'cede authority' to WHO

Life & Style Published 12 Mar, 2023 02:32pm

Finding Covid-19’s origins is a moral imperative: WHO’s Tedros

Says understanding Covid’s origins and exploring all hypotheses remains scientific imperative to prevent future outbreaks

Life & Style Published 27 Feb, 2023 11:42am

Contaminated food, water: Cholera threatens Pakistan, says WHO

Poverty, disasters, conflict and climate change consequences continue to be driving factors alongside a lack of access to safe water and sanitation

Life & Style Published 04 Jan, 2023 08:20pm

Airport screenings won’t stop spread of XBB subvariant: expert

Dr Rana Jawad Asghar says new strain more active and resilient

Life & Style Updated 20 Oct, 2022 11:52am

WHO says Covid-19 is still a global health emergency

Virus continues to change, remain many risks and uncertainties: WHO chief

World Published 06 Oct, 2022 08:00am

WHO issues alert after Indian made cough syrups cause deaths

At least 66 children die in the Gambia from kidney injuries

World Published 05 Oct, 2022 08:44pm

WHO probing Indian cough syrup after 66 children die in The Gambia

Warns that the contaminated products could have been distributed to other countries

Pakistan Published 18 Sep, 2022 01:41pm

WHO concerned over potential for second disaster in Pakistan

Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says body will issue a revised appeal shortly

Life & Style Published 02 Sep, 2022 11:43am

US CDC recommends boosters targeting Omicron

Pfizer-BioNTech shot is recommended for people 12 and older and Moderna's for those 18 years and up

Life & Style Published 01 Sep, 2022 09:00am

New treatment emerges for drug-resistant TB

Reduces number of pills a patient has to take

Health Published 16 Aug, 2022 04:58pm

WHO turns to public for monkeypox name change

Experts warn the name can be stigmatising to the primates it was named after

Health Published 11 Aug, 2022 11:41am

London children to be offered polio booster as samples found

The last case of polio in UK was in 1984

Health Updated 03 Aug, 2022 07:06pm

Pakistan reports highest single-day Covid deaths since July 16

NIH urges people to follow SOPs in Muharram

Health Published 01 Aug, 2022 10:44pm

India reports Asia’s first possible monkeypox death

WHO says more than 18,000 monkeypox cases have been detected throughout the world

Health Published 25 Jul, 2022 01:00pm

Pakistan increases surveillance for suspected monkeypox cases

No monkeypox cases have been recorded in Pakistan yet

Health Published 24 Jul, 2022 02:23pm

WHO declares global health emergency over monkeypox outbreak

More than 16,000 cases of monkeypox in more than 75 countries

Health Published 23 Jul, 2022 11:41pm

WHO triggers highest alert on monkeypox

Monkeypox has affected over 16,800 people in 74 countries

Pakistan Updated 23 Jul, 2022 12:35pm

Covid claims seven more lives, positivity rate highest in a week

NCOC issues SOPs, advisory ahead for gatherings, processions during Muharram

Health Published 13 Jul, 2022 01:16pm

WHO warns Covid-19 pandemic ‘nowhere near over’

Cases increased in the past weeks

Health Published 05 Jul, 2022 04:06pm

Monkeypox cases top 5,000: WHO

WHO report about monkeypox cases.

Health Published 27 Jun, 2022 10:46am

Monkeypox not presently a global public health concern: WHO

The viral disease occurs primarily in tropical rainforest areas of Central and West Africa

Health Updated 18 Jun, 2022 04:09pm

Hepatitis more prevalent in men than women, top moot told

Officials say routine immunisation of children necessary to eliminate it