The Public Health Agency of Canada is part of the federal health portfolio. Our activities focus on protecting against threats to public health, preventing and reducing diseases and injury, and ...

PM Modi has started an anti-obesity campaign and stressed the urgent need to tackle the problem, urging everyone to cut down ...

Body mass index, or BMI, is computed by dividing your weight by your height (squared). It is generally used to help you ...

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But an overall lessening of trust, and an absence of consensus among WTO members on the way forward has contributed to its problems recently, while the US and China – the world’s two largest economies ...

The American Medical Association (AMA), as well as other medical organizations around the world, recommend against healthcare providers using BMI as a sole indicator of health and as a means to ...

(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Argentina’s president has ordered the country’s withdrawal from the World Health ...

FILE - Argentina's President Javier Milei arrives to speak at Mar-a-Lago, Nov. 14, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) ...

Argentina has announced it will pull out of the World Health Organization (WHO), mirroring a similar move by US President Donald Trump last month. “President (Javier) Milei instructed (foreign ...

The executive order cites the organization ... WHO would make the world far less healthy and safe,” Lawrence Gostin, director of the WHO Collaborating Center on Global Health Law at Georgetown ...

BUENOS AIRES — Argentina's president has ordered the country's withdrawal from the World Health Organization due to “profound differences” with the U.N. agency, a presidential spokesperson ...