public health

Flying Dutchman recognised as longest-surviving heart transplant patient

More than a billion people worldwide are obese, WHO study finds

South Korea police launch raid on doctors' association over walkout

Pentagon walks back Austin's Gaza casualty figures

Britain seeks 'urgent reversal' of fall in childhood vaccination rates

US considers airdropping aid into Gaza as land deliveries slow, US official says

Canada fired two scientists for sharing information with Beijing, says paper

U.N. says Israeli forces stalled evacuation convoy, forced paramedics to strip

New Zealand set to scrap world-first tobacco ban

New Zealand to shut indigenous health authority amid Maori protests

South Korea's Yoon says won't back down over medical reforms as doctors strike

Mauritius allows Norwegian Dawn cruise ship to dock after no trace of cholera found

Overworked and unheard, South Korean doctors on mass walkout say

Pet dogs bring both joy and worry to displaced Gaza teenager

More than half the world faces high measles risk, WHO says

UK's Labour calls for immediate Gaza ceasefire to try to avoid party row

Gaza health crisis could kill 8,000 more by August even if fighting stops - report

Fentanyl use spreads deeper into Mexico, on heels of US epidemic

UK's Prince William: 'Too many' have been killed in Gaza war

Sydney school, supermarket tainted with asbestos as crisis widens

South Korea PM asks doctors not to quit over planned medical student increase

Gaza doctors measure children for malnutrition

Israel raids main Gaza hospital as Rafah concerns grow

Putin says Russia is close to creating cancer vaccines

UK's Cameron: Israel should think before further action in Rafah

Displaced Gazans resort to living in chicken sheds

French minister heads to Mideast with post-war Gaza plans in mind

Canada to delay assisted death solely on mental illness until 2027

WHO chief says defunding UNRWA will have 'catastrophic' consequences

US says fentanyl talks with China 'meaningful' but more needs to be done-official

Japan earthquake survivors battle unsanitary conditions with no running water

Gaza medical student's dreams of becoming doctor tested by war

UK government to ban disposable vapes to prevent use by children

German state broadcaster urges Israel to let 2 workers leave Gaza

Gaza starves as Israel presses war on Hamas

World risks missing deadline for pandemic accord, says WHO chief

Cameroon begins routine malaria shots in global milestone

Fire in Panama's largest landfill blows toxic smoke over capital

Aid workers can make little impact on 'ocean' of need in Gaza - MSF