Women from deprived backgrounds in the United Kingdom are at higher risk of dying from cancer compared to their counterparts in other European countries and better-off women in Britain, a new WHO study finds.

The World Health Organization says at least 15,000 people have died in Europe because of hot weather in 2022 so far.

Another wave of COVID-19 infections may have begun in Europe as cases begin to tick up across the region, the World Health Organization and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said on Wednesday.

Iran’s health minister Bahram Einollahi has denounced unilateral US sanctions against the country as “inhumane,” noting that the embargos have had a “destructive” impact on the resilience of the country’s healthcare sector.

Gambia's president says a surge in acute kidney injuries likely linked to an Indian paracetamol syrup that killed dozens of children in past months was under control.

The world has never been in a better position to end the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization says.

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