The World Health Organization says it doesn't have enough information to know if it is winning the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis. In a new report on the global status of drug-resistant TB based on data from 2008, the agency says almost half of ...

The World Health Organisation said Thursday it was suspending the use of the Indian-developed Shan5 combination vaccine, which is used against infections such as diphtheria, tetanus and hepatitis B. "The manufacturer got some complaints that there was suspended white sediment in some of the vials," WHO spokeswoman Alison Brunier told AFP. As a result, the UN health agency decided to ...

The U.N. health agency said Wednesday it has suspended its approval of a vaccine against tetanus and four other diseases produced by Sanofi-Aventis SA subsidiary because of a white substance forming inside some vials. The World Health Organization and the manufacturer of the Shan5 vaccine are investigating the sediment which is "sticking to the glass inside the vials," said ...

Scientists report that women living in countries with worse rates of disease and ill health are far likelier to plump for "masculine"-looking men than "feminine"-looking rivals. Psychologists from Scotland's University of Aberdeen tested a theory that masculine traits in men are a sign of genetic health. If true, this should also have an effect on women, whose ...