The latest attacks on Wednesday mark an escalation in its campaign to bottle up the oil-rich Persian Gulf as American and ...

The head of Iraq’s ports company said that 38 crew members of two foreign oil tankers were rescued after an Iranian attack set them ablaze in Iraq’s territorial waters in the Gulf. Also, three vessels ...

Gaza residents are facing rising food prices and worsening shortages, as the war involving the US, Israel and Iran disrupts ...

Concerns about the connection between processed meat and cancer has been building for decades, but it turns out that the risk ...

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After the U.S. withdrew from the World Health Organization, it wasn't clear they would participate in this WHO-led meeting to determine the recipe for the next flu vaccine.

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 ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The World Bank has slashed by almost two thirds the amount of money it planned to help Kenya mobilize from commercial lenders for the nation’s housing and land reform programs. Commercial lenders will ...

In announcing its “Great Healthcare Plan” in January 2026, the Trump administration became the latest in a long history of efforts by the U.S. government to rein in the soaring cost of health care.