The Zika virus is "spreading explosively" in the Americas and the region may see up to four million cases of the disease strongly suspected of causing birth defects, the Geneva-based World Health Organization said on Monday.
Childhood obesity has reached alarming rates globally and become an "exploding nightmare" in developing countries,
a commission for the Geneva-based World Health Organization says.
The upcoming climate summit in Paris could
produce the most important agreement of the century for public health matters, the Geneva-based World Health Organization said on Tuesday.
The Swiss meat industry was put on the defensive by a report this week from the Geneva-based World Health Organization that found processed red meats such as sausages and bacon are probably carcinogenic and can cause cancer.
A UN-sponsored report on Monday denounced the Geneva-based World Health Organization's slow response to the Ebola outbreak and said the agency still did not have the capacity to tackle a similar crisis.
Yemen risks an imminent collapse in its health system, the Geneva-based UN health agency warned on Tuesday, estimating the latest death toll from fighting there at 944.
Diseases linked to lifestyle choices, including diabetes and some cancers, kill 16 million people prematurely each year, the World Health Organization said on Monday, urging action to stop the "slow-moving public health disaster".
A new kind of bird flu hitting European poultry farms will surely continue to spread among birds, the Geneva-based World Health Organization said on Tuesday, urging countries to be "vigilant".
An outbreak of Legionnaire's disease in Portugal that has killed five people in less than a week constitutes a "major public health emergency", the World Health Organization warned on Tuesday.
The death toll in west Africa's three-nation Ebola outbreak has risen to 337, the Geneva-based World Health Organization said Wednesday, making it the deadliest ever outbreak of the haemorrhagic fever.
Alcohol kills 3.3 million people worldwide each year, more than AIDS, tuberculosis and violence combined, the Geneva-based World Health Organization said Monday, warning that booze consumption was on the rise.
The Swiss are known for their great love of cheese but a doctor from Lausanne is warning that they need to reduce their consumption of gruyère, emmental and other varieties because of the health risks.
