World Health Organization

The Group of 20 summit has begun with appeals by the world’s most powerful leaders to collectively chart a way forward as the coronavirus pandemic overshadows this year’s gathering, transforming it from in-person meetings to a virtual gathering of speeches and declarations

If you often feel exhausted or mentally distant at work, the World Health Organization may have a diagnosis for you: Burnout. For the first time, the WHO has officially classified workplace burnout as an occupational phenomenon in its latest revision of the International Classification of Diseases. The agency previously defined burnout as a “state of vital exhaustion,” but this is...

The race to deliver a vaccine coincides with a scramble to secure future supplies, even before their safety and efficacy have been established.

Donald Trump’s election four years ago reframed how many nations interacted with the United States.

A large study led by the World Health Organization suggests that the antiviral drug remdesivir did not help hospitalized COVID-19 patients

The World Health Organization released the findings of their coronavirus therapeutics study on Friday, which studied the impact of drugs like remdesivir and hydroxychloroquine on treating hospitalized coronavirus patients.

Healthy young people might not get the coronavirus vaccine until 2022 as public health officials focus on immunizing the elderly and other vulnerable groups first, top officials from the World Health Organization said Wednesday. Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, WHO’s chief scientist, said health workers, frontline workers and the elderly will likely be offered a vaccine first, though prioritization details are still…

The World Health Organization has announced a new daily record high in coronavirus cases confirmed worldwide, with more than 350,000 infections reported to the U.N. health agency on Friday. The new daily high of 350,766 cases surpasses a record set earlier this week by nearly 12,000. That tally includes more than 109,000 cases from Europe alone. In a press briefing…

The World Health Organization said according to their best estimates, roughly 10% of the world’s population has been infected with COVID-19.

The Trump administration says it will not work with an international cooperative effort to develop and distribute a COVID-19 vaccine because it does not want to be constrained by multilateral groups like the World Health Organization.

The coronavirus has hit the dental industry hard. Models last month from the American Dental Association’s Health Policy Institute predict dental spending could be down by as much as 38% by the end of 2020 and 20% in 2021.

The World Health Organization released updated coronavirus guidelines which recommend that all non-urgent dental visits be postponed until after the pandemic to reduce the spread.

The World Health Organization has warned that there might never be a “silver bullet” to protect against the coronavirus. Dr. Bob Lahita, a professor of medicine at New York Medical College, joined LX News to explain why vaccine progress is making him more hopeful.

Despite multiple promising vaccine candidates, World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns we may not ever have a “silver bullet” to stop the disease.

The coronavirus pandemic has found fresh legs around the world, as confirmed deaths pass 600,000 and countries from the U.S. to South Africa to India struggle to contain a surge of new infections.

President Trump has announced that the U.S. is pulling out of the World Health Organization, saying it failed to warn the world about coronavirus. So, what exactly is the WHO and how will your life by affected by the U.S. decision to drop out? NBCLX’s Noah Pransky explains.

The United States has officially notified the United Nations of its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, a White House official said Tuesday. That notice of withdrawal was submitted to the U.N. secretary-general. The announcement comes after President Donald Trump said at the White House in late May that the U.S. would be “terminating” its relationship with the WHO over its...

More than 200 scientists have called for the World Health Organization and others to acknowledge that the coronavirus can spread in the air.

More than 230 scientists from around the globe signed a public letter to the World Health Organization, demanding the organization acknowledge and publicize findings that the coronavirus can spread through the air.

The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating around the world as many countries that reopened their economies see a resurgence in COVID-19 cases, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, said Monday.