World Health Organization report also finds one in seven adolescents across continent use vapes and e-cigarettes
Teenage girls in Europe have the highest rate of tobacco use in their age group around …
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Meghan wears Zara! Duchess ditches designer gear for £109 high street jacket in Jordan - and takes off her usual stack of bangles and diamonds ○
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Prince Harry and his wife, 44, are currently on a two-day quasi-royal tour of Jordan at the invitation of the World Health Organisation (WHO).
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Influencers, misinformation and aid cuts: the fight to halt polio in Malawi ⊖⊖
A huge vaccination drive has been launched after the country’s first outbreak in years of the paralysing disease. But the battle to wipe out the virus is struggling elsewhere, so how can it be eradic…
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Trump has pulled the US out of the World Health Organization – here’s why that’s sheer hypocrisy | Devi Sridhar ⊖
There’s a lesson here for the UK and the anti-WHO Nigel Farage – Trump attacks it in public, but in private he knows he still needs it
Donald Trump is persistent. In his first term as president, he wi…
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‘Coca leaf is life itself’: Andean growers’ hopes fade as WHO upholds global ban ⊖
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Under US pressure as part of the ‘war on drugs’, the WHO still categorises the sacred Indigenous remedy as akin to heroin or fentanyl, despite its many therapeutic properties
For thousands of years, A…
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One person dead from Nipah virus in Bangladesh, WHO says ⊖⊖
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The case in Bangladesh, where Nipah cases are reported almost every year, follows two Nipah virus cases identified in neighbouring India
The World Health Organization said on Friday that a woman had d…
34 days ago
What does the US withdrawal from the WHO mean for global health? ○
The US completed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, ending its membership for the first time since 1948.
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US officially withdraws from the World Health Organization ○
US health secretary, secretary of state announce that Washington completes the process of WHO withdrawal.
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Traces of cancer-linked pesticide found in tests at UK playgrounds ⊖
Pressure mounting for use of glyphosate, listed by WHO since 2015 as probable carcinogen, to be heavily restricted
Children are potentially being exposed to the controversial weedkiller glyphosate at …
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The WHO learned to love ‘anti-obesity’ jabs in 2025. I don’t fully agree, but I get it | Devi Sridhar ⊕⊕
While GLP-1 drugs promise an easy fix, our bodies still need what they have always needed: healthy food and regular exercise
Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edi…