European regulators advanced several new medicines, including a combined flu and COVID vaccine and new treatments for rare diseases.

Although plastic particles in the air are increasingly coming into focus, knowledge about their distribution and effects is still limited. Chemical analyses from Leipzig now provide details from ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has certified Denmark for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of HIV ...

European drug regulators are endorsing a new and simpler treatment for sleeping sickness, in what could be a giant boost to efforts to eliminate the disease. A European Medicines Agency committee ...

The fighting enters its fifth year on Tuesday. A U.S.-based think tank says that as many as 1.8 million soldiers may have been killed, injured or missing on both sides.

After pulling out of the World Health Organization, the Trump administration is proposing spending $2 billion a year to replicate the global disease surveillance and outbreak functions the United ...

A new study led by the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute evaluates the impact of a voluntary code intended to improve ethical recruitment of physicians from World Health Organization-designated ...

City health authorities are joining a network that counters new pathogens and emerging outbreaks. By Joseph Goldstein Two weeks after the Trump administration formally withdrew the United States from ...

Tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption were responsible for 15 percent and 3 percent of all cancer cases diagnosed in 2022, a new study suggests. SimpleImages via Getty Images Today is World Cancer ...

(WAND) - Governor JB Pritzker announced Tuesday the State of Illinois is joining the World Health Organization's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network. The network is dedicated to monitoring and ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- When it comes to public health, Gov. JB Pritzker is again not following the lead of the Trump administration. It's a move some local doctors support. Sitting on the border of Little ...

The White House may have pulled the plug on U.S. participation in the World Health Organization, but that doesn’t mean that Americans have to. The Illinois Department of Public Health sidestepped the ...