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The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially designated Health Canada, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare/Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (MHLW/PMDA) of Japan, and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) of the United Kingdom as WHO-Listed Authorities (WLAs), a status granted to national authorities that meet the highest international regulatory standards for medical products. 08/07/2025

Picking your nose and eating the results isn’t polite behavior, but odds are, it won’t make you sick 08/07/2025

Only some people experience autonomous sensory meridian responses, but it can be beneficial to those who do 08/07/2025

Watery discharge is usually normal and may happen more when you’re ovulating 08/07/2025

Washington, D.C., 6 August 2025 (PAHO/WHO)– As World Breastfeeding Week unfolds under the theme “Prioritize breastfeeding: Create sustainable support systems,” the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF are calling on governments and health systems worldwide to invest in breastfeeding support to improve infant health and development. In… 08/07/2025

Washington, D.C., August 6, 2025 (PAHO) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has released its 2024 country annual reports, outlining the main results of technical cooperation carried out in collaboration with governments and strategic partners across the Americas. These reports highlight concrete results, inspiring stories from the field… 08/06/2025

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

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

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

The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially designated Health Canada, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare/Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (MHLW/PMDA) of Japan, and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) of the United Kingdom as WHO-Listed Authorities (WLAs), a status granted to national authorities that meet the highest international regulatory standards for medical products. 08/07/2025

Picking your nose and eating the results isn’t polite behavior, but odds are, it won’t make you sick 08/07/2025

Only some people experience autonomous sensory meridian responses, but it can be beneficial to those who do 08/07/2025

Watery discharge is usually normal and may happen more when you’re ovulating 08/07/2025

Washington, D.C., 6 August 2025 (PAHO/WHO)– As World Breastfeeding Week unfolds under the theme “Prioritize breastfeeding: Create sustainable support systems,” the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF are calling on governments and health systems worldwide to invest in breastfeeding support to improve infant health and development. In… 08/07/2025

Washington, D.C., August 6, 2025 (PAHO) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has released its 2024 country annual reports, outlining the main results of technical cooperation carried out in collaboration with governments and strategic partners across the Americas. These reports highlight concrete results, inspiring stories from the field… 08/06/2025

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

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

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