After pulling out of the World Health Organization, the Trump administration is proposing spending $2 billion a year to replicate the global disease surveillance and outbreak functions the United ...

As the U.S. formally exited from the World Health Organization last month, Trump administration officials misleadingly claimed that the WHO “pushed” or “promoted” lockdowns during the COVID-19 ...

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) announced Tuesday that his state is joining the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, becoming the second state to do so since the ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) affirmed his state’s continued departure from current federal health policy by announcing Friday that California will be the first ...

A year since President Donald Trump announced that he would pull the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. is officially exiting the health agency. In a joint statement on Thursday, ...

The U.S. is set to officially exit the World Health Organization on Thursday, one year after President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the withdrawal. Trump announced on the first day ...

The World Health Organization issued new guidelines Monday recommending the use of GLP-1 drugs for treating obesity. In the new guidelines, the United Nations health agency made two key ...

New World Health Organization guidelines for GLP-1 weight-loss drugs state that “intensive behavioral therapy” should be combined with these revolutionizing medications for obesity treatment. In the ...

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