10 years after #UNSCR2286, hospitals are still bombed and health workers still detained, tortured or killed. The WMA urges the UN to appoint a Special Rapporteur on the protection of healthcare in armed conflict. #HealthCareInDanger #MedicalNeutrality
The WMA condemns the attack on a hospital in Savar, Bangladesh. Violence against health personnel and facilities is never acceptable. We renew our call on the authorities to protect healthcare: wma.net/news-post/world-medi…
#HealthCareInDanger #ProtectHealthCare #Bangladesh
On 28 Oct, WMA President Dr Jung Yul Park speaks at the launch of the 2026 Lancet Countdown Global Report, which WMA helped develop 🌍
📍 British Library & online, 13:00–15:30 GMT
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#LancetCountdown
The world’s physicians call for urgent global action against false health information.
Our new WMA Statement warns that false health claims and AI medical deepfakes threaten patient safety. It calls on governments, platforms and AI companies to act. wma.net/news-post/worlds-phy…
📖 The September 2026 issue of the World Medical Journal (Vol. 72, Nr. 3) is now available!
Read the full issue 👇
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The World Medical Association (WMA) has condemned the Nicaraguan government's interference with the work of the country's doctors.
Full Press Release: lnkd.in/erUnz2BU
Diseases we almost defeated could return, WMA warns over childhood vaccine schedule changes
Full Press Release: lnkd.in/e9x8c92J
Climate Change Threatens the Health of Future Generations, Physicians Warn
Full Press Release: wma.net/news-post/climate-ch…
World Medical Association urges Russia to be fully transparent over laboratory worker’s death
Full Press Release: lnkd.in/eqpASc6H
Global Physicians Demand Accountability for Attacks on Healthcare. WMA has adopted the Declaration of Rotterdam on the Protection of Medical Neutrality at its General Assembly: wma.net/news-post/global-phy…
Dr. Jung Yul Park has taken office as President of the World Medical Association: wma.net/wp-content/uploads/2…
Dr. Jacqueline Kitulu, MBS, OGW, MD, MBA, FCMA closed her year as President of the World Medical Association today in Rotterdam with a speech full of gratitude and conviction. wma.net/wp-content/uploads/2…
The World Medical Association (WMA) is deeply concerned by the scale of the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak, the slow, inadequate international response, and escalating violence.
Full Press Release: wma.net/news-post/wma-deeply…
At the WMA GA 2026, Dr. C. Vinkers described moral distress as the gap between what good care needs and what doctors can do. Sometimes distress is an appropriate response to an unacceptable situation, so the question is when to help the person and when to change the system.
Prof. Dr. Katharina Bauer at the WMA GA 2026 on "technomoral distress": doctors need to work well with AI while still asking whether it is the right solution at all. Resilience should never shift the burden onto individual physicians or replace structural change.
More than half of Hungarian physicians surveyed scored above the clinical threshold for moral injury, said Dr. Péter Álmos at our WMA GA 2026 Scientific Session in Rotterdam. His message: defending medical autonomy is defending patients.
"Unprocessed moral distress accumulates." Prof. Cynda Rushton of Johns Hopkins at WMA GA on why moral resilience matters: integrity is foundational to health and wellbeing, and a focus on distress alone overlooks growth, meaning and moral action.
The WMA General Assembly opens today in Rotterdam!
A warm thank-you to our host, the Royal Dutch Medical Association (KNMG), for welcoming the global medical community to Rotterdam.
#WMA2026Rotterdam
The 18th World Conference on Bioethics, Medical Ethics & Health Law, sponsored by WMA, takes place in Porto, 28–30 Sept. Don't miss our special sessions on revising the Declaration of Taipei (28.09, 12h–13h) and the Declaration of Lisbon (30.09, 11h–12h15). #Bioethics
