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Over 80 percent of the world's city dwellers breathe poor quality air, increasing their risk of lung cancer and other diseases: WHO

• 12 мая 2016, 14:45

The number of adults estimated to be living with diabetes has nearly quadrupled over 35 years: the World Health Organization

• 06 апреля 2016, 20:08

Causing brain damage in babies and a rare neurological ailment in adults, the Zika virus is also linked to paralysis-causing myelitis.

• 09 марта 2016, 00:53

Majilis, the country’s lower chamber, approved of the agreement with the WHO to launch a country office in Almaty.

• 09 сентября 2015, 19:31

The World Health Organization said that the MERS outbreak in South Korea was a "wakeup call" and urged all countries to be more vigilant.

• 17 июня 2015, 15:13

South Korea's outbreak of the deadly MERS virus is "large and complex" and more cases should be expected, a team of World Health Organization (WHO) experts said.

• 13 июня 2015, 13:40

The World Health Organization will dramatically reform its emergency response operations this year, after the UN agency faced blistering criticism for its slow Ebola response.

• 19 мая 2015, 11:24

Chief Oncologist of the Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development Kuanysh Nurgaviyev has reported on positive trends in the oncological situation in Kazakhstan and explained the increase of new cancer cases.

• 21 марта 2015, 14:46

More than one billion young people risk damaging their hearing through listening to loud music, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

• 28 февраля 2015, 12:01

The World Health Organization said it had appointed its assistant director-general Bruce Aylward to head its overall response to the deadly Ebola outbreak.

• 04 февраля 2015, 10:05

The World Health Organization's chief admitted the UN agency had been caught napping on Ebola and pledged reforms to avoid similar mistakes in future.

• 26 января 2015, 12:41

The WHO introduced new cervical cancer guidelines, making it easier and cheaper to protect women against one of the deadliest, but most preventable, diseases.

• 03 декабря 2014, 13:43

The World Health Organization has recommended Kazakhstanis to abstain from drinking tea during mealtime.

• 22 октября 2014, 19:51

South Africa's port city of Durban will host the 21st International AIDS Conference in 2016, marking the forum's return to Africa after 16 years, organisers said.

• 26 июля 2014, 10:21

Kazakhstani Ministry of Health in cooperation with UNICEF introduced an individual child development card.

• 14 июля 2014, 22:17

The World Health Organization urged all men who have gay sex to take antiretroviral drugs, warning that HIV infections are rising among homosexual men in many parts of the world.

• 12 июля 2014, 02:26

Federal investigators are probing how vials of smallpox made their way into a storage room at a Food and Drug Administration lab near the US capital, health authorities said.

• 09 июля 2014, 13:46

The Philippines urged its large Muslim minority to reconsider plans to join pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia this year due to a deadly virus outbreak there.

• 03 июля 2014, 13:28

The mosquito-born chikungunya virus is spreading into Central America, health authorities there say, after outbreaks in several Caribbean nations.

• 21 июня 2014, 13:25

Former Norwegian premier Gro Harlem Brundtland was named Wednesday as the first recipient of the Tang Prize, touted as Asia's version of the Nobels, for her work as the "godmother" of sustainable development.

• 18 июня 2014, 14:21