World Health Organization

People drive amid heavy smog on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, 15 November 2024.

India's capital New Delhi switched schools to online classes on Monday until further notice because of worsening toxic smog, the latest bid to ease the sprawling megacity's health crisis.

The seminar, taking place tomorrow, Thursday, November 7th, at the Grand Britannia Hotel in Athens, will highlight the critical importance of vaccination as a cornerstone for strengthening public health. The event will feature representatives from the government, institutional bodies, and the scientific community.

The United Kingdom has reported two additional cases of mpox clade Ib, marking the first confirmed instances of local transmission in the WHO European Region. Both cases occurred in household contacts of a person who had recently returned from several African countries and tested positive for mpox.

Hamas-run Gaza's health ministry said Monday that Israeli forces were bombarding the last partially functioning hospital in the territory's north, as Israel formally notified the U.N. it is cutting ties with the main aid agency for Palestinians.

The Israeli army denied today that it hit a clinic in the northern part of the Gaza Strip during an ongoing polio vaccination campaign.

The process of electing delegates to SYRIZA is now at its peak, as counting is underway at the polling stations of the Member Organisations, which number 550. On the first day of the process, both the majority and the Kasselakis side are declared winners.

More than 50 children were reportedly killed in northern Gaza's Jabalia area in the past 48 hours, UNICEF said on Nov. 2, warning that the entire population faces imminent danger from disease, starvation and relentless bombings.

Iran's supreme leader vowed retaliation on Saturday for attacks by Israel, as an Israeli military official confirmed naval commandos seized a suspected Hezbollah operative in a Lebanon raid.

The latest health bulletin from the National Public Health Organization (NPHO) covers a variety of health topics, featuring questions about vaccinations directed to the Chair of the National Vaccination Committee, Professor Emerita of Pediatrics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Maria Theodoridou, along with her responses.

Climate change poses a growing threat to human health in a variety of record-breaking ways, a major report said on Wednesday, the experts warning that "wasted time has been paid in lives."

The new report was released as heatwaves, fires, hurricanes, droughts and floods have lashed the world during what is expected to surpass 2023 to become the hottest year on record.