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Unprecedented in scale: WHO

GENEVA — A strike on the Al-Ahli al-Arabi Hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip that killed hundreds was “unprecedented in scale,” the World Health Organization (WHO) said on

GENEVA — A strike on the Al-Ahli al-Arabi Hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip that killed hundreds was "unprecedented in scale", the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday (Oct 17), condemning the attack. The strike was the bloodiest single incident in Gaza since Israel launched a bombing campaign against the densely populated Gaza Strip in retaliation for...

The timing is not auspicious.

The October 2023 Global Research and Innovation Forum presents an occasion to reflect on progress and discuss future strategies and priorities geared towards augmenting the impact of research on health emergency readiness and effective responses against both outbreaks and pandemics.

Many of those who were killed in a blast that destroyed a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday had turned to the church-run facility because they believed it would be a relatively safe place when they had nowhere else to go, humanitarian officials said Wednesday. 

A UK health expert's warning that a new pathogen could cause a pandemic as deadly as the Spanish Flu has sent alarm bells ringing in a world that is yet to completely emerge from what it hoped was a once-in-a-lifetime event -- Covid-19

This week leaders at the U.N. adopted a declaration recognizing the need for nations to work together to address future pandemics. But Questions loom. How will it be enforced? Who's footing the bill?

The inability of global governance to impose checks and balances to ensure that the needs of less endowed countries are served is worrying.

Residents and rescue workers in the devastated Libyan city of Derna are struggling to cope with the thousands of corpses washing up or decaying...