This summary presents key updates in the health sector. Highlights include UnitedHealth's tech unit customers adopting ...

Poliomyelitis is an ancient disease that has resulted in significant morbidity and mortality worldwide for centuries. Its ...

The second round of a UNICEF-led vaccination campaign in Gaza aims to protect 640,000 children from polio while also ...

The second round of a vaccination campaign to protect 640,000 children in Gaza against polio will also deliver micronutrients ...

It was a race against the clock. At 6 a.m., hostilities would pause in one part of Gaza and health workers rushed to gather ...

Up to 88.5% of Gaza has been placed under evacuation orders since the ... Mr Rose said Unrwa and other UN agencies had been ...

Although Washington accuses Israel's military of striking schools, humanitarian workers and civilians in Gaza and warns Tel ...

As fewer children die or are debilitated due to measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus and polio, we tend to forget that this is the result of an evidence-based childhood vaccination program.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus condemned Israel’s targeting of a convoy managed by the international ...

The World Health Organization chief on Tuesday said that Israeli tanks at the weekend had fired on an aid convoy that had been cleared to travel back from war-ravaged northern Gaza.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the U.N. said ...

Gaza’s doctors are frequently working in conditions not seen since before the Civil War. (L) Palestinian doctors work on a ...