This epidemic of NCDs has significant health consequences ... the world sleeps even less in the post-COVID era. During the pandemic and associated lockdown period, we observed that lack of ...

According to a 2022 World Bank estimate, preventing a pandemic would cost approximately US$11 billion per year, while ...

Across the world, natural history museums hold about 3 billion specimens of plants and animals in collections—and these ...

The Pandemic Agreement, just adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO), is a landmark for global public health. Had such ...

One of the reasons the influenza pandemic thrived in 1918 was because of overcrowded living conditions. Though influenza viruses spread most efficiently in cool, dry environments, the 1918 flu thrived ...

Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) today formally adopted by consensus the world's first Pandemic Agreement. The landmark decision by the 78 th World Health Assembly culminates ...

It is official. The World Health Organization (WHO) has described the novel coronavirus as a pandemic for the first time. In a press briefing on Wednesday, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom ...

"But the world has also learned many of the painful lessons the pandemic taught us, and has taken significant steps to strengthen its defences." Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO's epidemic and pandemic ...

At this ongoing exhibition, Artists for Artists, at Experimenter Ballygunge, Sathish Kumar’s showcased photographs, titled Sunlight, capture moments from the pandemic, which are symbolic of his ...

The Trump administration just became so much more Orwellian. “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command,” George Orwell wrote ...

The agreement is "one of the direct learnings from COVID-19," Maria Van Kerkhove, interim director of the Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention at WHO, told NPR Friday in ...

Rates of drug overdose deaths decreased in the U.S. for the first time since the pandemic began ... maker Purdue Pharma fuel the opioids epidemic in the United States. Oregon officials declared ...