Category: Health

Mr. Hassan and his fellow Youth Councillors advise and actively engage with the WHO Director-General and the agency’s senior leadership, designing and expanding the agency’s programmes and strategies. In an interview with UN News ahead of the 2025 World Health Assembly – the UN’s highest forum for global health – Mr. Hassan, who was born and raised […]

Updating journalists in Geneva, World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson Dr. Margaret Harris described another night of terror in the war-torn enclave. She said that some of those injured in the attacks had sought help from the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza, even though it was now “just a shell” after 19 months of war.   […]

In a historic first for precision medicine, a research team supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has successfully delivered a personalized CRISPR-based gene-editing therapy to treat an infant diagnosed with a rare and life-threatening genetic condition—carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 (CPS1) deficiency. The groundbreaking treatment marks the first known use of patient-specific CRISPR gene […]

“Behind every data point is a person – a child who didn’t reach their fifth birthday, a mother lost in childbirth, a life cut short by a preventable disease,” said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, as the organization’s latest statistics report revealed the pandemic’s deeper health impacts. Warning that overall progress is under threat today, […]

Many women came to the clinic who had walked multiple hours to receive maternal care – some of them with their newborns and some heavily pregnant. And then there were the health workers themselves, committed to serving those in need in hard-to-reach areas of the impoverished Taliban-controlled nation. ‘Off the radar’ These were some of […]

Department of Children, Disability and Equality14 May 2025 Dublin – Minister for Children, Disability and Equality, Norma Foley, has welcomed the agreement of a new North/South Child Protection Work Programme extending to 2028. The programme was approved today at the North South Ministerial Council (NSMC) Health Sectoral meeting, marking an important step forward in cross-border […]

Across 73 countries, 308 million people now rely on humanitarian aid – a number that continues to rise. Women and girls are disproportionately affected by these crises, facing preventable pregnancy-related deaths, malnutrition, and alarming levels of sexual violence. Despite the growing need, the humanitarian system is facing severe funding shortfalls, threatening life-saving services for women […]

Summary: Pancreatic cancer, among the most lethal forms of cancer, is notoriously difficult to detect and treat. It often goes unnoticed until it has reached an advanced stage, contributing to a grim 5-year survival rate of just 13%. But new findings published in Nature on April 23, 2025, suggest that disrupting how pancreatic cancer cells […]

Two notable Disease Outbreak News (DON) updates from the World Health Organization (WHO) highlight ongoing viral threats in the Middle East and the Indian Ocean region, underlining the need for enhanced surveillance and infection control efforts. MERS-CoV Cluster in Saudi Arabia SummaryBetween 1 March and 21 April 2025, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health reported nine […]