The death of a young doctor who was reprimanded for warning about China's new virus triggered an outpouring Friday of praise for him and fury that communist authorities put politics above public safet...
The World Health Organization is working with Google to ensure that people get facts from WHO first when they search for information about the new virus that recently emerged in China. Director-Gen...
An outbreak sparked by a new virus in China that has been exported to more than a dozen countries was declared a global emergency by the World Health Organisation on Thursday after the number of ...
The Ministry of Health in Barbados continues to be on the alert when it comes to the deadly coronavirus, and is appealing to Barbadians to be on guard as well. The respiratory illness, which o...
Japan's government said Thursday a man treated for pneumonia after returning from China has tested positive for the new coronavirus identified as a possible cause of an outbreak in the Chinese city of...
The Barbados Defence Force’s (BDF) Field Medical Facility (FMF) has been given the green light to respond to medical emergencies in Barbados and other disaster-stricken countries. It has rec...
The Caribbean is being warned to prepare for heat waves due to the impact that they could have on peoples’ health, including the risk of death. In a statement, PAHO said it is urging the ...
The World Health Organization has issued its first-ever guidance for how much screen time children under five should get: not very much, and none at all for those under one. The U.N. health agency ...
The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO) is calling on people to get tested as an important step towards halting the spread of HIV and ending AIDS. “Know your status” ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has removed its Zika virus country classification scheme which categorized Barbados and most of the Caribbean as having active Zika virus transmission. The Carib...