The WHO urges an end to violence in Sudan following a deadly hospital drone strike. The CIA suggests COVID-19 could have lab origins. Trump might rejoin the WHO after exiting over pandemic handling. The FDA okays Alzheimer's drug maintenance dosing.

Sudanese army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan visited its strategic headquarters in central Khartoum on Sunday in his first appearance there since government forces claimed to have broken a months-long siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Around 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, the chief of the World Health Organization said Sund

"Unfairly onerous payments" are cited in the executive order as a reason for WHO withdrawal. Countries’ dues are a percentage of their gross domestic product, meaning that as the world’s richest nation, the United States has generally paid more than other countries.

Seventy patients and companions died in a drone strike on one of the last functioning hospitals in western Sudan's Darfur, the region's governor said.

This health briefing covers a range of current issues: attacks on healthcare in Sudan, COVID-19's origins, drug breakthroughs for liver disease and Alzheimer's, a rise in Guillain-Barre syndrome in India,

“WHO is at the forefront of the cholera response, with our teams working alongside the government health system for the early detection and timely management of cases. Our supplies are assisting a quick response to prevent severe cases and deaths,” says WHO Representative to Sudan, Dr Shible Sahbani.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order pulling the U.S. out of the W.H.O. Winter health woes from the dangerous cold snap, and a Tennessee hospital breaks a heart transplant record. Bradley Blackburn reports in this week's Eye On Health.

Sudan's army chief visited on Sunday his headquarters in the capital Khartoum, two days after forces recaptured the building, which had been encircled by paramilitary fighters since the war erupted in April 2023.

This summary highlights major health news, including the WHO's call to end attacks on Sudanese healthcare, the CIA's new COVID-19 lab origin theory, Trump's reconsideration of WHO membership, U.S. Justice Department limits on abortion clinic access cases,

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Some 70 people killed in attack on hospital in besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, World Health Organization chief says.