NOVO-OGAREVO, Russia, June 26 (UPI) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin put the emphasis on alcohol addiction and smoking Friday as key targets to achieve a healthy nation.

GENEVA, Switzerland, June 11 (UPI) -- The world is at the beginning of the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic, the World Health Organization director general said in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday.

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 19 (UPI) -- Forty countries have officially reported 9,830 cases of H1N1 flu, including 79 deaths, the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, May 4 (UPI) -- The global swine flu threat is receding, but it could return in a far more deadly form in the fall.

ATLANTA, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Measles deaths worldwide fell by 74 percent from 2000 to 2007, from an estimated 750,000 to 197,000, U.S. and U.N. officials said.

GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale, said the World Health Organization's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health in Switzerland.

LONDON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The World Health Organization kicked off a campaign in London calling for more medicines tailored to children's needs.

UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- The Measles Initiative said Thursday it has met the goals set by the United Nations to eradicate the disease in Africa four years ahead of schedule.

GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- More global cooperation is needed to identify and stop the spread of diseases to ensure public health security, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.