Healthcare

By Leela de Kretser DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - A global health fund has raised a third of the $18 billion...

By Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) - Billed a COVID-19 success story as its economy boomed through the pandemic, Taiwan is...

By Sunil Kataria COLOMBO (Reuters) - A shortage of medicine caused by an economic crisis in Sri Lanka could soon...

By Joori Roh SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's nominee for health minister, Chung Ho-young, on Monday withdrew his candidacy for...

GENEVA (Reuters) -Taiwan's bid to attend the World Health Organization's annual assembly was rejected on Monday, the assembly said, after...

By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said it expects to identify more cases of monkeypox as...

By Jennifer Rigby and Emma Farge LONDON/GENEVA (Reuters) - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization...

By Michael Erman NEW YORK (Reuters) -Global health officials have sounded the alarm over rising cases in Europe and elsewhere...

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway has begun searching for possible cases of monkeypox in the capital Oslo, the country's Institute of...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel on Saturday reported its first confirmed case of monkeypox, which officials expected would be contained. The...

By Jennifer Rigby and Natalie Grover LONDON (Reuters) - The World Health Organization was holding an emergency meeting on Friday...

By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -A handful of cases of monkeypox have now been reported or are suspected in Britain,...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece said on Wednesday it would end the mandatory wearing of face masks in airplanes and indoor...

By Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) - As North Korea battles its first known COVID outbreak, a lack of storage, chronic...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Lawmakers in Mexico's southwestern state of Guerrero voted on Tuesday to allow abortions, making it the...

By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -The cost of life-saving treatment for the most severely malnourished children is set to jump...

By Soo-hyang Choi and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's admission that it is battling an "explosive" COVID-19 outbreak...

By Francesco Zecchini ROME (Reuters) - Italy's population will shrink by 5 million within 30 years unless decisive steps are...

By Leonardo Benassatto and Alessandra Prentice ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (Reuters) - Since Russia invaded Ukraine, doctors at a military hospital in...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece on Wednesday banned conversion therapy for minors, a practice aimed at suppressing a person's sexual orientation...