Search Tag: WHO
WHO Joins the Team for eHealth Week 2017
2016 07 Dec
The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe will be contributing to the program of eHealth Week in May 2017.The event, which is organised by the Maltese Ministry for Health - as part of the Maltese Presidency of the Council of the European Union - the European Commission, and HIMSS-CHIME International will focus on the overarching... Read more
Save Lives: Clean Your Hands
2016 25 Apr
Preventing infections and reducing an avoidable burden on health systems is still critical around the world today and is part of making sure every healthcare setting is safe for treating patients. Surgical patients are at risk of health care-associated infections (HAI), in particular surgical site infections (SSI) and device-associated infections, for example... Read more
World Brain Day Focuses on Epilepsy
2015 20 Jul
This year's World Brain Day (22 July) campaign aims to improve awareness and care of epilepsy, a common neurological disorder that affects more than 50 million people worldwide. The most important causes of epilepsy include perinatal brain injury, infections, traumatic brain injury, and stroke — and all these conditions are preventable.In January 2015,... Read more
Rapid Ebola Diagnostic Successful in Field Trial
2015 29 Jun
Potential game changer for treatment and containmentA new test can accurately diagnose Ebola virus disease within minutes, providing clinicians with crucial information for treating patients and containing outbreaks.Researchers from Harvard Medical School, Partners In Health and Boston Children's Hospital have shown that a new commercially developed... Read more
WHO 'Taken Aback' By Measles Resurgence in Europe
2015 25 Feb
The World Health Organization (WHO) has been “taken aback” by the outbreak of measles across Europe, as news came on Wednesday about the measles-related death of an 18-month old child in Berlin. From January 2014 to February 2015, the number of measles cases has spiked into the thousands in five European countries. More than 500 cases have been reported... Read more
WHO Critical Care Training for Tajik Clinicians
2015 30 Jan
World Health Organization (WHO) influenza experts have recently conducted a clinical workshop for front-line clinicians working in intensive care units (ICUs) across Tajikistan. As the health professionals primarily responsible for the management of severe cases of influenza infection, these clinicians are likely to be the first to detect severe cases... Read more
Guest Editorial
2014 08 Nov
Authors R Shakir President W Carroll First Vice-President W Grisold Secretary-Treasurer General World Federation of Neurology London, United Kingdom www.wfneurology.org @wfneurology On 22July 2014, the World Federation of Neurology (WFN) launched World Brain Day, dedicated to bringing more attention to brain health and the prevention of brain diseases.... Read more
PneumoNP: A WHO Collaborative Research Program
2014 11 Jul
Antibiotic resistance poses a serious worldwide threat to the treatment of infections such as pneumonia. A collaborative European research project is responding to the plea by the World Health Organization (WHO) for innovative solutions to control the crisis. The PneumoNP project will combine new antibiotics with inhalable nanocarriers for a more targeted... Read more
67th World Health Assembly In Geneva
2014 20 May
The World Health Organization (WHO) began its sixty-seventh annual assembly in Geneva on Monday, 19 May, on the heels of a global survey that indicates high public approval of the nongovernmental agency. Attendance is expected to exceed 3,000 delegates over the six-day World Health Assembly, which was opened by outgoing President Dr. Shigeru Omi of... Read more
WHO: Antibiotic Resistance in ICU Infections on the Rise
2014 13 May
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released new survey data stating around 30 percent of critically ill patients cared for in intensive care units will contract a healthcare-associated infection. According to the findings, the number of those infections resistant to antibiotic treatment is on the rise.With at least seven out of every 100... Read more