The number of diagnosed cancer cases will more than double between 2000 and 2030, primarily in poor countries, A United Nations research agency said today.

A top official from the UN World Health Organisation called for an increase in global capacity to produce flu vaccines, warning that recently boosted production capacity is not enough to handle any human pandemic.

Irish people must donate money now before time runs out for earthquake victims in Pakistan, an Irish aid worker claimed today.

AS epidemiologist Sylvia Briand boots up to take samples from a prospective victim of the deadly Marburg virus in a cramped Angolan slum, family and neighbours stand by in fear, grief and fascination.

A Cambodian man who died this week has tested positive for a severe strain of bird flu, the government said today, raising the country’s death toll from the disease to two.

The war in Iraq is dissuading the international community from intervening in the growing crisis in Darfur, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said today.

Mexico has forged a new alliance with Moscow to challenge a common enemy: the recently imposed total ban on smoking on the grounds of UN headquarters in New York.

Malaria kills 3,000 African children every day and drains billions of pounds from the continent’s economy each year – even though its spread can be easily controlled, a UN agency said today.