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Toddlers should spend no more than 60 minutes passively watching a screen every day, while babies under 12 months should have none, to ensure that they grow up fit and well, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, as part of a campaign to tackle the global obesity crisis. In recommendations specifically aimed at under-fives for the first time, the UN health agency said that some than 40 million children around the globe – […]
(Eagle News) — The World Health Organization lauded the Philippines for passing the Universal Health Care Law that seeks to ensure Filipinos’ equal access to quality healthcare. In a statement, the WHO said the new law was a “critical step” to ensure “major reforms to consolidate existing yet fragmented financial flows, increase the fiscal space for benefit delivery, improve the governance and performance of devolved local health systems and institutionalize support mechanisms such as health […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization warned Monday that antibiotics consumption is dangerously high in some countries while a shortage in others is spurring risky misuse, driving the emergence of deadly superbug infections. In a first, the United Nations health agency said it had collated data on antibiotic use across large parts of the world and had found huge differences in consumption. The report, based on 2015 data from 65 countries and regions, […]
KINSHASA, DR Congo (AFP) — WHO chief Tedros Adhanom on Tuesday called for tighter monitoring as he wrapped up a visit to Ebola-hit DR Congo, saying the outbreak was far from over despite the number of cases stabilising in recent weeks. The outbreak — the ninth in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1976 — was declared on May 8 and has claimed 27 lives. “On the basis of statistics, we can say that the situation […]
By: Mark Christofer Manalo I do not spend much time on social media. The utility of sharing personal information and pictures of one’s lunch escape me. But in the few times I checked out Facebook, I was greeted with two blatantly false stories that were passed around as “health news.” And by blatantly false, I mean that in an easily-disproven, just-a-Google-search-away, top-search-results kind of way. The first one had a ring of truth […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Pinuri ng World Health Organization ang bansa ukol sa pag-apruba ng tax sa sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB). Ayon sa WHO, Isa ang Pilipinas sa mga unang bansa sa Asia na isinama ang SSB tax sa national agenda. May mga ebidensya ring nagpapakita na makakatulong ito sa pag-bawas ng konsumo ng asukal para ma-iwasan ang sobrang timbang, diabetes at sakit sa puso. Sa Pilipinas, tumataas na ang bilang ng mga over-weight o […]
The UN body adds it never recommended Dengvaxia for use in national immunization programs (Eagle News) — The World Health Organization on Tuesday said that the Philippines’ Department of Health–then under the Aquino administration—decided to roll out the controversial dengue vaccine before the body made its advice on the matter public. In a statement, the WHO added that it never made any recommendation to introduce Dengvaxia in the immunization programs of countries in the first […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The World Health Organization will conduct a re-evaluation regarding the safety of Dengvaxia. This after manufacturer Sanofi Pasteur admitted that Dengvaxia may pose danger to those who did not have dengue before. https://youtu.be/17m1zfeSQyU
by Alexandre Marchand Agence France-Presse THANKHALI, Bangladesh (AFP) – The United Nations launched one of its biggest ever cholera vaccination drives in the vast refugee camps of southeast Bangladesh Tuesday amid fears of an outbreak among nearly a million Rohingya now living there. Thousands of Rohingya men and women lined up in intense heat at makeshift health centers on Tuesday, many with young children in their arms, to receive the oral vaccine against the disease. The […]
by Marlowe Hood Agence France Presse PARIS, France — Fewer children are dying before their fifth birthday and although humans are living longer than ever before, one in five deaths last year were linked to poor diet, researchers said Friday. More than 1.6 million people in poor countries died in 2016 from diarrhea caused by contaminated water and food, while another 2.4 million succumbed to lung infections that mostly could have been prevented or treated. Another […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — The Indian health ministry has confirmed its first cases of the Zika virus, the World Health Organization has said, the latest nation to be affected by the mosquito-borne virus that sparked global concern. Zika — which can cause babies to be born with microcephaly, or abnormally small heads — has affected dozens of countries around the world since it was first detected in 2015, although the WHO lifted its international […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) – It is justified for the World Health Organization (WHO) to not invite Taiwan to the ongoing 70th World Health Assembly (WHA), said a spokesperson for China’s State Council Taiwan Affairs Office in Beijing on Thursday. An Fengshan made the remarks at a routine press briefing when asked about WHO’s exclusion of Taiwan from the WHA. “The international community recognizes the one-China principle universally. The United Nations Security Council Resolution 2758 and […]
