GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea has reduced deaths from surgery and among women in childbirth under a program funded by South Korea that is building trust across the divided peninsula, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. Rates of deadly diarrheal disease in children have fallen dramatically under the project, which has provided training to 6,000 North Korean doctors ...

North Koreans are getting better medical treatment as the result of a joint program between the two Koreas that has trained thousands of doctors, provided modern equipment and renovated hospitals, the World Health Organization said Thursday. Maternal mortality has declined by over 20 percent since 2005, and diarrhea ...

Mexican officials said Wednesday they have confirmed the first mutation of the A(H1N1) flu virus in a girl who survived the infection. Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova told Mexican journalists that the case was the first confirmed mutation of the swine flu virus, though there were 423 other suspected cases. He said the girl was treated two months ago ...

Road accidents are the leading cause of death for youths from ages 5 to 29 and nearly half of the 1.2 million traffic fatalities each year are pedestrians, bikers and motorcyclists, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. The study finds that more than 90 percent of the fatalities occur in developing nations, and in some of the poorer nations ...