MANILA (BNO NEWS) — The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday said it is stepping up its efforts to ensure that more people in the Western Pacific Region, especially children, are protected from disease by immunization.

While there has been signi…

GENEVA (BNO NEWS) — The World Health Organization said Thursday investigations confirmed that Europe has been hit by a major outbreak of measles, a press release said.

The Geneva-based organization said, as of April 18, 33 countries in Europe have r…

BEIJING (BNO NEWS) — The milk poisoning that killed three young children in northwest China this week was the result of intentional food poisoning, officials said on Sunday.

A total of 39 people were sent to local hospitals in Pingliang City in Gansu…

SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND (BNO NEWS) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday approved vandetanib to treat adult patients with late-stage (metastatic) medullary thyroid cancer who are ineligible for surgery and who have disease that is…

GENEVA (BNO NEWS) –­ Depletion of the ozone layer,­ the shield that protects life on Earth from harmful levels of ultraviolet rays, has reached an unprecedented level over the Arctic this spring because of the continuing p…

WASSIT, IRAQ (BNO NEWS) — A 27-year-old woman gave birth to four children in southern Iraq on Friday, local media reported on Saturday. One of the children immediately died.

The Aswat al-Iraq news agency reported that the unidentified mother gave bir…

MOSCOW, RUSSIA (BNO NEWS) — Russians set their clocks one hour forward for perhaps the last time on early Sunday morning, effectively making daylight saving time permanent in its nine timezones.

Russia has been using season time on and off during the…

VIENNA (BNO NEWS) — Japanese officials on Saturday reported the results of new radiation samples collected offshore of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said.

The radiation samples were …

UNITED NATIONS (BNO NEWS) — An estimated 51 million people have no access to safe drinking water in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which holds over half of Africa’s water reserves, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said Tues…

UNITED NATIONS (BNO NEWS) — An estimated 51 million people have no access to safe drinking water in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which holds over half of Africa’s water reserves, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said Tues…