Figures show one in eight people occupying intensive care beds in Italy is under 50.

A quarter of the globe's population are becoming less and less active, according to research by the World Health Organisation.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recently recognised a new kind of mental health condition.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is backing away from its own call to tax sugary drinks, in a new report that some experts slammed as being "conspicuously limp".

A nurse has died from Ebola in Bikoro, the rural town in the north-west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo where the outbreak began, as the country begins a vaccination campaign.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released a plan to help countries wipe out trans fats from the global food supply in the next five years.

Food companies are being targeted by the World Health Organisation in a major drive to tackle childhood obesity around the world.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has joined the chorus of concern at the steep decline in uptake rates in Ireland for the HPV vaccine, which helps protect against cervical cancer.

India is home to four of the five cities in the world with the worst air pollution, the World Health Organisation said.

The first yellow fever outbreak in Angola in decades has killed 178 people, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said.

Possible Zika vaccines are at least 18 months away from large-scale trials, according to the World Health Organisation.

European countries are being warned to act now to try to reduce the risk from the Zika virus.

Drugs manufacturer Sanofi Pasteur is launching an effort to research and develop a vaccine to prevent the Zika virus, after the World Health Organisation declared a global emergency over its explosive spread.

The World Health Organisation has begun a crisis meeting considering whether the explosive spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus – which is linked to birth defects in the Americas – should be declared a global health emergency.

The World Health Organisation has joined those calling for a sugar tax on soft drinks.

Guinea has been declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organisation.

A teenage boy has died of Ebola in Liberia, the first fatality since July in one of the three West African countries hit hardest by the worst-ever outbreak of the disease.

Failings by the World Health Organisation (WHO) played a key role in the Ebola disaster, according to new report.

The World Health Organisation has moved to clarify its report on processed and red meat.

Global health experts have found that processed meat such as bacon, ham and sausages can cause bowel cancer.

Polio is no longer endemic in Nigeria, the World Health Organisation has said.

Authorities in Guinea are concerned about a new outbreak of cases just as officials hoped the crisis was coming under control.

Being overweight is predicted to become almost universal in Ireland by 2030, WHO experts have said.

ALARM bells have been ringing so loudly and for so very long about the escalating obesity epidemic that it is difficult to make the kind of impression that might help avert the crisis.

Europe is heading for an unprecedented explosion in rates of obesity and excess weight – with the Republic of Ireland at the forefront of the trend, say researchers.

A system devised by an Irish doctor that allows hospitals to easily and reliably compare caesarean-section rates and outcomes has been endorsed for worldwide use by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Liberia has released its last Ebola patient from a treatment centre in the capital Monrovia, beginning its countdown to being declared Ebola-free.