The Latest Breaking News from the World Health Organisation

Popular fizzy drink sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk

The additive is found thousands of products including ice cream and chewing gum

Manchester Evening News · Jun 30, 2023

Everything we know about 'cancerous' aspartame and products hit - including Diet Coke

Aspartame - an artificial sweetener used in diet drinks and food - could be listed by the World Health Organisation as a 'possible carcinogen' from next month. Here's everything you need to know

Daily Mirror · Jun 29, 2023

Evaluation of UK’s pandemic preparedness was ‘simply wrong’, expert says

The World Health Organisation carried out a joint external evaluation of the UK’s ability to cope with public health risks prior to the pandemic.

The Independent UK · Jun 15, 2023

Parents urgently warned as baby dies and eight more left in intensive care by 'usually mild' bug

The World Health Organisation has issued a warning after 15 babies - 10 in Wales and five in the South West - contracted the usually mild infection

Bristol Post · May 18, 2023

London children to be offered MMR and polio vaccines through primary schools

Parents urged to check children’s vaccination status amid rise in measles cases

Evening Standard · May 16, 2023

Monkeypox: World Health Organisation declares global emergency over

The World Health Organisation has downgraded the threat of the virus

Evening Standard · May 11, 2023

PCR tests clinics to close on Friday, despite 'enough demand'

PCR testing in December 2021 and January 2022 was "armageddon".

Newcastle Herald · May 8, 2023

England regions most at risk of measles outbreaks as MMR vaccination rates drop

Jab rates well below the 95% target set by the World Health Organisation to eliminate the disease

Wales Online · May 6, 2023

WHO declares end to COVID-19 global health emergency

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has made a milestone declaration on the pandemic, three years after it became a global health emergency. In a

The New Daily · May 5, 2023

How deadly is Covid-19 now as WHO ends global health emergency?

The World Health Organisation first flagged Covid-19 as an international concern in January 2020.

Evening Standard · May 5, 2023