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The three years of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a terrible loss of life and exacerbated health inequalities. The global economy slumped and, worldwide, people’s lives were affected. This experience demonstrated that the present global health governance framework is not effective in responding t...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has formally recognised that Lithuania has effective legislative and control measures in place to ensure that trans fats harmful to health are removed from food.

Pasaulio sveikatos organizacijai (PSO) paskelbus apie naują susitarimą dėl ateities pandemijų valdymo, socialinių tinklų naudotojai ėmė skleisti nepagrįstus teiginius. Anot jų, PSO narės neteks suvereniteto ir privalės paklusti organizacijos įsakymams. „Melo detektorius“ paaiškina, kodėl šie teigini...

Nors ir konstatuojama, kad per didelis druskos vartojimas labai kenkia sveikatai, tačiau internete skelbiamas teiginys, kad druska iki 2030 m. sukels milijardą mirčių yra nei teisingas, nei pagrįstas.

В социальной сетях пользователи делятся и обсуждают фрагмент видео, в котором канадский ученый, невролог, говорит об опасности вакцинации, утверждая, что в их составе в качестве вспомогательного вещества присутствует алюминий (адъювант).

Lithuania on Sunday joined other European countries in imposing a ban on passenger flights from Britain, Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte said after an emergency cabinet meeting.

As the situation with COVID-19 deteriorates, the world is also facing a global ‘pandemic of disinformation’. The conspirators are taking advantage of the crisis that has befallen us all, creating unexpected stories that, like the virus, are already spreading online and are affecting more and more gu...

As a resurgent coronavirus sweeps across Europe and the U.S., some health experts are calling for a “cluster-busting” approach to contact tracing like the one Japan and other countries in Asia have used with success.

Patalpų vėdinimas yra nuolat sveikatos specialistų akcentuojamas, kadangi apie 90 proc. savo laiko praleidžiame uždarose patalpose. Šiuolaikiškuose verslo centruose šviežio oro apykaitą užtikrina mechaninės vėdinimo sistemos. Namuose žmonės įpratę atidaryti langus ir taip vėdinti patalpas. Esant tik...

Lithuania leads among European and other countries in terms of bullying among children and adolescents, the latest survey by the World Health Organization shows.

The current pandemic creates major challenges for international institutions and global governance. A lack of responsible and forward-looking governance means that the world is ill-equipped for effectively responding to the ongoing viral outbreak.

The Chinese embassy in Vilnius on Wednesday expressed "strong dissatisfaction" with Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius' call to invite Taiwan to next week's World Health Assembly (WHA).

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says a fake letter sent out in his name to announce alleged withdrawal of allied troops from Lithuania was aimed at sowing confusion and undermining the unity of NATO allies by capitalizing on the COVID-19 crisis.

Over the past two decades mental health has made quite a progress in moving up the global political agenda. In the 1990s mental health was definitely not considered as such, and it took an extensive study carried out under auspices of the World Health Organization to convince the World Bank that the...

After the World Health Organization (WTO) declared the COVID-19 virus outbreak a pandemic, quarantine took effect in Lithuania. Most of us understand that this means high risk of getting ill with coronavirus. Among those who are infected, most will recover. However, the high number of deaths among v...

“Usually the first reaction to the outbreak of potentially dangerous disease is panic, and once the threat has passed, policy-makers fail to plan for adequate prevention. Overreaction, then ignorance, in other words”, says Dr Florian Rabitz senior researcher at KTU Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts a...

Lithuania's former European Commissioner Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis is about to take office as the World Health Organization's special envoy for the European region.

Lithuania's Health Ministry has put Hong Kong, Iran, South Korea and Singapore onto the list of risky territory as the new coronavirus continues to spread.

The Lithuanian government declared on Wednesday a nationwide emergency in an effort to minimize the threat of the novel coronavirus spreading into the country.

People who have returned from China where the new COVID-19 coronavirus is spreading are advised to avoid contact with people for two weeks.