WHO releases guidelines for multi-modal generative AI in healthcare, resonates with recommendations for other sectors

Rapid adoption of AI-driven models underscores need to weigh out their benefits and risks carefully  

WHO, WMA, other health leaders seek legally binding pact to turn off fossil fuels

Over 190 groups ask high-income countries to help others with global phase-out

Davos 2024: WEF report finds challenges in health and wellness; reversals in global health cooperation

Prior to 2020, most indicators of health cooperation grew slowly and steadily

Omicron update: UK caseload shows travel curbs failed

Variant of Concern already identified in 52 countries

Too early to declare Coronavirus outbreak an int'l emergency: WHO

'Neither severity, source nor extent of virus' transmission completely known yet'

Get ready for post-globalisation era

India's trade negotiators have to fight hard to protect national interests

A heavy burden

In 2016, over 95 per cent of TB deaths happened in low- and middle-income countries

WHO estimates cost of reaching global health targets by 2030

Investments could prevent 97 million premature deaths globally between now and 2030

Brazilian scientists find traces of the Zika virus in human saliva and urine

Experts caution that the findings are preliminary

Children under five account for 30 per cent of deaths due to food borne diseases globally: WHO

Calls food borne diseases a ‘global concern’

WWF report sounds alarm over China's state of biodiversity

Notes that country’s terrestrial vertebrates have declined by half

Simply Put: Who owns the road?

Simply Put: Eternal gift

Simply Put: Plastic Planet

Ahead of COP28, health professionals call for urgent action on climate change to prevent premature deaths

Global health bodies demanded governments to urgently phase out fossil fuels, accelerate renewable energy

Down To Earth Coverage: What is the solution to Africa’s energy poverty?

The continent must leapfrog to renewables to become energy-secure

DTE coverage: Over 700 commitments made at UN 2023 Water Conference

The conference in New York City aimed at making the world more water-resilient

Simply Put: Plastic pandemic

Simply Put: The broken GHG record

Monkeypox can be transmitted to babies during and after pregnancy. We should be watchful but not alarmed

The virus can enter the body via broken skin, the respiratory tract or mucous membranes

Simply Put: An Earth-like planet

Simply Put: Corporate profit

It’s been a year since Africa was declared polio free. But a threat remains

Simply put: Malaysia to send back waste to US, UK Canada etc

Simply put: More plastic waste is now making its way to Southeast Asia