A blueprint to empower countries in the Global South to end their dependence on health aid, which includes the possible closure of international global health

It’s been barely three years since the COVID-19 pandemic ended, yet many world leaders appear to have little appetite for pandemic-proofing. Ahead of the UN

A new modelling study suggests that US Medicare “Most-Favored-Nation” policies on drug prices would cut Medicare spending on brand-name drugs, but potentially

Das Finanzvermögen von Bund, Ländern, Gemeinden und Sozialversicherung ist 2025 angewachsen. Inklusive aller Extrahaushalte beträgt es 1.199,1 Milliarden Euro.

With Thursday’s 24 September deadline looming, international scientific societies and civil society leaders are pushing Spain to sponsor a last-minute WHO Director-General nomination for Dr María Neir...

A Committee on Public Health delegation to Greece will focus on EU health resilience, life sciences innovation, equitable access to treatment and healthcare workforce training.

It’s been barely three years since the COVID-19 pandemic ended, yet many world leaders appear to have little appetite for pandemic-proofing. Ahead of the UN

As countries continue negotiating the unfinished WHO Pandemic Agreement, one of the original accord's architects warns that delays could put the process

Early divisions emerge over social media age limits

At least ​112,000 people have been ‌displaced inside Yemen within the last two weeks ​as fighting continues ​along the country's west coast ⁠amid a renewed conflict, ​while nearly 3,000 have ​fled by sea to Djibouti, the United Nations migration agency ​said on Friday.

Am Donnerstagnachmittag entzündete ein Mann einen Brandansatz an einem Nebeneingang des Gotteshauses. Was bislang bekannt ist

Die Erdoğan-Regierung nimmt die LGBTQ+-Bewegung ins Visier. Sie sagt, um Familien und Kinder zu schützen. Beobachter sehen in dem Vorgehen eine Warnung an Andersdenkende im Land.

The race to lead the World Health Organization (WHO) is intensifying. Early digital campaign data reveals a contest to capture the pivotal African vote while leveraging established US, EU and corporate networks between European Regional Director Dr Hans Henri Kluge (Belgium) and Eastern Mediterranean Regional Director Dr Hanan H. Balkhy (Saudi Arabia). They are flanked by challenges from Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin and Qatari former Health Minister Dr Hanan Al-Kuwari who have yet to launch their digital campaigns.

Is the World Food Programme getting Luke Lindberg, “America First” Trump appointee, or Luke Lindberg, rookie international civil servant and impartial

It’s the only example of a dinosaur-era feather found within rock that wasn’t completely flattened through the centuries.

A new modelling study suggests that US Medicare “Most-Favored-Nation” policies on drug prices would cut Medicare spending on brand name drugs, but potentially

The family of a Texas woman who died from a pregnancy-related condition has sued the state's Republican attorney general, Ken Paxton, and doctors who treated her, claiming an ​abortion could have saved her life and the state's near-total ban on the ‌procedure is unconstitutional.

Pharma- und Kosmetikindustrie sollen sich an den Kosten für den Ausbau von Kläranlagen beteiligen. Eine Klage dagegen könnte Erfolg haben.

Democrats are increasingly attacking the administration’s hands-off approach to artificial-intelligence regulation as midterms approach.

“The previous day, 8 September 2026, the Regional Committee had recommended that Wazed’s appointment as Regional Director be terminated. That recommendation

“The previous day, 8 September 2026, the Regional Committee had recommended that Wazed’s appointment as Regional Director be terminated. That recommendation

Outgoing WHO Assistant Director-General Dr Jeremy Farrar will lead PATH’s regional division for Asia, the Middle East, and Europe starting 1 October. Based in Geneva, he joins the executive leadership team to accelerate the delivery of health technologies across these regions, the organisation announced in a press release on Wednesday, 9 September.

The startup, considered Europe's leading AI model developer, said the funding round would accelerate its research

Meanwhile, The Global Fund, also in search of a new leader, has taken a very different approach. Rather than having candidates make their interest known

Germany has decided not to put forward a candidate for the election of the next WHO Director-General. With Spain also reportedly not seeking to stand, the global field of candidates is taking shape wi...

WHO has validated Timor-Leste as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. With this validation, trachoma has been eliminated as a public health problem throughout the WHO’s South-East As...

A global initiative to establish a stockpile of mpox vaccines was launched on 27 August, creating a long-term mechanism

Foreign weapons, military technology, fighters and logistical networks are ​helping sustain Sudan's conflict and expanding the warring parties' ability to strike deep into civilian areas, a United Nations fact-finding mission ‌said in a report published on Thursday, warning that some attacks may amount to war crimes.

The antiretroviral medicine lenacapavir, delivered via injection every six months, is almost completely effective in preventing HIV. But it is expensive at

The German government is cementing its shift in geopolitical priorities, slashing budgets for global health funding and crisis preparedness. Whilst defence spending is set to further increase, assesse...

Four of the 58 health zones in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) affected by the Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak have had no new cases in the past 42 days,

Die »Artgemeinschaft« sah sich als Hüterin einer »germanischen Rasse«. Nun durchsucht die Polizei nach SPIEGEL-Informationen 15 Objekte mutmaßlicher Anhänger und Sympathisanten des verbotenen Vereins.

U.S. health officials have approved a groundbreaking pancreatic cancer drug that offers a new approach to treating the deadly form of cancer, by blocking a protein that fuels tumor growth in the vast majority of cases.

Two unvaccinated people have died of measles in Pennsylvania, marking the first US deaths this year as the country grapples with the largest outbreak of the disease in three decades.

The Indonesian Health Minister, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, is officially nominated for the WHO Director-General election - in what is also an unconventional candidacy for the global health agency that has t...