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US officially exits WHO, citing COVID-19 pandemic management failure

The US has officially left the World Health Organization, citing mismanagement during the COVID-19 pandemic, sparking concerns about global health collaboration and future US involvement.

|ByREUTERS, JAMES GENN
World Health Organization (WHO) logo and US flag are seen in this illustration taken April 23, 2025.
A 3D immunofluorescent image of melanoma cells (magenta) infected with bacteria (turquoise); cell nuclei are blue

Breakthrough Tel Aviv University study uncovers how skin cancer outsmarts immune system

The study shows that melanoma cells release tiny bubble-like structures called extracellular vesicles, or EVs, which can paralyze the immune cells that normally attack tumors.

|ByPESACH BENSON/TPS
The World Health Organization (WHO) logo is seen near its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, February 2, 2023.

Israel must leave World Health Organization, Knesset's new health committee chair says

MK Limor Son Har-Melech’s push to withdraw Israel from the WHO drew backlash from health leaders, who warned of risks to public health and international ties.

|ByAVIHAI CHIIM
The antidepressant drug Prozac, also known as fluoxetine, is seen on a table in Leicester, central England February 26, 2008 in this posed photograph.

Israel must confront the growing economic toll of depression - opinion

Depression is costing Israel is costing the country between an estimated NIS 12 billion and NIS 16 billion per year.

|ByITAMAR GROTTO

Deadly Marburg virus spreads in Africa, WHO increases health surveillance

There are no known treatments for this virus which has a fatality rate of 88%

FEBRUARY 14, 2023ByREUTERS
A logo is pictured outside a building of the World Health Organization (WHO) during an executive board meeting on update on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Geneva, Switzerland, April 6, 2021.

Quarter of Ukrainians at risk of severe mental health conditions

Kazatchkine said he had seen dozens of military personnel hospitalized with "acute and tragic anxiety, depression and psychiatric conditions".

FEBRUARY 9, 2023ByREUTERS
View of a mine-warning sign as a Ukrainian service member demonstrates clearing a minefield using a remote control for the Armtrac 400 demining machine, capable of clearing 2,400 square metres per hour, amid Russia's invasion, in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine October 27, 2022.

WHO report on Ukraine health emergency sparks US, Russia row

While Russia condemned the report, the US called for it to be updated to include more damage.

FEBRUARY 4, 2023ByREUTERS
People fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine board a Humanitarian Aid helicopter going to Prague, Czech Republic, at a border crossing in Vysne Nemecke, Slovakia, March 5, 2022.

COVID remains a public health emergency, says WHO

It is three years since the WHO first declared that COVID represented a global health emergency.

JANUARY 30, 2023ByREUTERS
A logo is pictured outside a building of the World Health Organization (WHO) during an executive board meeting on update on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Geneva, Switzerland, April 6, 2021.

WHO doctor kidnapped in eastern Mali

The doctor was taken from his car in the town of Menaka, where Jihadist groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State are active.

JANUARY 24, 2023ByREUTERS
A logo is pictured outside a building of the World Health Organization (WHO) during an executive board meeting on update on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Geneva, Switzerland, April 6, 2021.

WHO expert: China’s COVID-19 surge could lead to deadly mutation

Dr. Dorit Nitzan: “We have to be ready and alert.”

JANUARY 10, 2023ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
Prof. Dorit Nitzan

What is XBB.1.5, the new coronavirus variant spreading in the US?

A mutation in the new variant allows it to spread better than its forebears, but can still avoid antibodies well.

JANUARY 8, 2023ByTZVI JOFFRE
SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus behind COVID-19 (Illustrative).

Haiti receives first shipments of cholera vaccines: WHO

The Caribbean island nation has suffered from more than 230 deaths since the disease re-emerged this past fall.

DECEMBER 13, 2022ByREUTERS
DR. YUVAL LEVY, part of an Israeli military medical team that treated earthquake victims in Haiti, holds hands with a 6-year-old Haitian boy expected to undergo heart surgery in Israel, upon their arrival from Haiti at Ben-Gurion Airport on January 28, 2010.

Uganda confirms Ebola case in country's east as outbreak expands

Uganda's health ministry is struggling to keep Ebola cases isolated.

NOVEMBER 13, 2022ByREUTERS
A person dressed in ebola protective apparel is seen inside an ebola care facility at the Bwera general hospital near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo in Bwera

Greatest threat to humanity: A list of 19 risk factors to our health

They seem harmless, but many types of fungi pose a real danger to the global population.

NOVEMBER 8, 2022ByWALLA!
Candida fungus