Tobacco use declines despite tobacco industry efforts to jeopardize progress at HealthBulance.

This supposed oral health practice doesn’t have proven benefits, and it’s not a substitute for brushing and flossing 08/04/2025

Choose foods that are low in fiber and easy to chew and swallow 08/04/2025

The ‘membership medicine’ model offers same-day appointments and increased doctor availability — for a fee 08/04/2025

Geneva, 28 July 2025 (WHO) –As we mark World Hepatitis Day, WHO calls on governments and partners to urgently accelerate efforts to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat and reduce liver cancer deaths."Every 30 seconds, someone dies from a hepatitis-related severe liver disease or liver cancer. Yet we have the tools to stop hepatitis… 08/01/2025

Brasília, 25 July 2025 (PAHO) — Representatives from Ministries of Health across the Americas reached consensus on key elements for a future roadmap to ethical and sustainable management of migration of health professionals, in response to the growing shortage of health workers in the region. These discussions took place during the… 08/01/2025

Sao Paulo, Brazil, 28 July 2025 (PAHO) – In a bid to boost regional health security and reduce dependence on global supply chains, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and Brazil’s Ministry of Health brought together leading manufacturers of health product at a strategic workshop in Sao Paulo last week. Hosted in collaboration with the Sao… 08/01/2025

28 July 2025 (PAHO/WHO) – Journalists from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico took part in a regional workshop on solutions journalism and road safety held in Natal, Brazil. The event was organized by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), with support from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative… 08/01/2025

Washington D.C. 30 July 2025 (PAHO) - The number of users to register for courses on the Pan American Health Organization’s (PAHO) Virtual Campus for Public Health (VCPH) has surpassed 4 million, underscoring the platform’s role as a vital tool for the training of health personnel in the Region of the Americas.The Virtual Campus is a free, open-… 08/01/2025

Malnutrition is on a dangerous trajectory in the Gaza Strip, marked by a spike in deaths in July. 08/01/2025

As we mark World Hepatitis Day, WHO calls on governments and partners to urgently accelerate efforts to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat and reduce liver cancer deaths. 08/01/2025

The Forty-second meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) on the international spread of poliovirus was convened by the WHO Director-General on 18 June 2025 with committee members and advisers meeting via video conference with affected countries, supported by the WHO Secretariat.  The Emergency Committee reviewed the data on wild poliovirus (WPV1) and circulating vaccine derived polioviruses (cVDPV) in the context of the global target of interruption and certification of WPV1 eradication by 2027 and interruption and certification of cVDPV2 elimination by 2029. Technical updates were received about the situation in the following countries: 08/01/2025

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), of which WHO is a member, today issued a Food Insecurity and Malnutrition Alert for the Gaza Strip. The details are as noted below. 08/01/2025

Ontario Health atHome was told by one of its vendors about a cyber incident on April 14, according to new information. It waited until June 27 to begin telling patients. 08/01/2025

As a travelling physician in northern Ontario, Dannica Switzer is acutely aware of the health-care crisis in underserved communities. 08/01/2025

The World Health Organization (WHO) has certified Timor-Leste as malaria-free, a remarkable achievement for a country that prioritized the disease and embarked on a concerted, nation-wide response shortly after gaining independence in 2002. 07/24/2025

On Friday, Liberal MPP Adil Shamji published a letter which indicated the data of some 200,000 patients using Ontario Health atHome had been compromised in March. 07/02/2025

The move comes on the heels of licences for 57 privately operated MRI, CT scan and endoscopy clinics last week and the expansion of for-profit cataract centres in the province. 07/02/2025

As part of the creation of 57 new privately run facilities — referred to as community surgical and diagnostic centres — Ontario will chip in $155 million over two years. 06/28/2025

This supposed oral health practice doesn’t have proven benefits, and it’s not a substitute for brushing and flossing 08/04/2025

Choose foods that are low in fiber and easy to chew and swallow 08/04/2025

The ‘membership medicine’ model offers same-day appointments and increased doctor availability — for a fee 08/04/2025

Geneva, 28 July 2025 (WHO) –As we mark World Hepatitis Day, WHO calls on governments and partners to urgently accelerate efforts to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat and reduce liver cancer deaths."Every 30 seconds, someone dies from a hepatitis-related severe liver disease or liver cancer. Yet we have the tools to stop hepatitis… 08/01/2025

Brasília, 25 July 2025 (PAHO) — Representatives from Ministries of Health across the Americas reached consensus on key elements for a future roadmap to ethical and sustainable management of migration of health professionals, in response to the growing shortage of health workers in the region. These discussions took place during the… 08/01/2025

Sao Paulo, Brazil, 28 July 2025 (PAHO) – In a bid to boost regional health security and reduce dependence on global supply chains, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and Brazil’s Ministry of Health brought together leading manufacturers of health product at a strategic workshop in Sao Paulo last week. Hosted in collaboration with the Sao… 08/01/2025

28 July 2025 (PAHO/WHO) – Journalists from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico took part in a regional workshop on solutions journalism and road safety held in Natal, Brazil. The event was organized by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), with support from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative… 08/01/2025

Washington D.C. 30 July 2025 (PAHO) - The number of users to register for courses on the Pan American Health Organization’s (PAHO) Virtual Campus for Public Health (VCPH) has surpassed 4 million, underscoring the platform’s role as a vital tool for the training of health personnel in the Region of the Americas.The Virtual Campus is a free, open-… 08/01/2025

Malnutrition is on a dangerous trajectory in the Gaza Strip, marked by a spike in deaths in July. 08/01/2025

As we mark World Hepatitis Day, WHO calls on governments and partners to urgently accelerate efforts to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat and reduce liver cancer deaths. 08/01/2025

The Forty-second meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) on the international spread of poliovirus was convened by the WHO Director-General on 18 June 2025 with committee members and advisers meeting via video conference with affected countries, supported by the WHO Secretariat.  The Emergency Committee reviewed the data on wild poliovirus (WPV1) and circulating vaccine derived polioviruses (cVDPV) in the context of the global target of interruption and certification of WPV1 eradication by 2027 and interruption and certification of cVDPV2 elimination by 2029. Technical updates were received about the situation in the following countries: 08/01/2025

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), of which WHO is a member, today issued a Food Insecurity and Malnutrition Alert for the Gaza Strip. The details are as noted below. 08/01/2025

Ontario Health atHome was told by one of its vendors about a cyber incident on April 14, according to new information. It waited until June 27 to begin telling patients. 08/01/2025

As a travelling physician in northern Ontario, Dannica Switzer is acutely aware of the health-care crisis in underserved communities. 08/01/2025

The World Health Organization (WHO) has certified Timor-Leste as malaria-free, a remarkable achievement for a country that prioritized the disease and embarked on a concerted, nation-wide response shortly after gaining independence in 2002. 07/24/2025

On Friday, Liberal MPP Adil Shamji published a letter which indicated the data of some 200,000 patients using Ontario Health atHome had been compromised in March. 07/02/2025

The move comes on the heels of licences for 57 privately operated MRI, CT scan and endoscopy clinics last week and the expansion of for-profit cataract centres in the province. 07/02/2025

As part of the creation of 57 new privately run facilities — referred to as community surgical and diagnostic centres — Ontario will chip in $155 million over two years. 06/28/2025