(VOVWORLD) -More than a billion people globally are now considered obese, according to a report on Thursday by the World Health Organization (WHO). This number has more than quadrupled since 1990...
(VOVWORLD) - New highly-effective weight loss drugs such as Wegovy are not a “silver bullet” for addressing the rapid rise in global obesity rates, the World Health Organization’s nutrition chief...
(VOVWORLD) - Drugs that combat obesity are under consideration for the first time for the World Health Organization's "essential medicines list," used to guide government purchasing decisions in low- and middle...
(VOVWORLD) - Severe obesity may weaken the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in those who have never been infected with the coronavirus, according to a small Turkish study
(VOVWORLD) - Just three years ago, in September 2015, all United Nations Member States approved the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The eradication of hunger and all forms of malnutrition (Sustainable Development Goal number...
(VOVWORLD) - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and UN partner agencies (IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO) have just published the 2018 edition of The State of...
(VOVworld) – This year’s Micronutrition Day, themed ‘Micro-nutrients are necessary for children’s growth’, was launched in Hanoi on Monday