Health

Biden stalls on menthol cigarette ban fearing Black vote backlash

WASHINGTON (AFP): President Joe Biden's government on Friday said it was taking more time to consider a ban on menthol…

3 weeks ago

Premature baby girl rescued from her dead mother’s womb dies in Gaza after 5 days in an incubator

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP): A premature Palestinian infant, rescued from her mother’s womb shortly after the woman was killed in…

3 weeks ago

Smaller towns in South Korea bear brunt of doctors’ shortage

INCHEON, South Korea (Reuters): Hospitals in South Korea's smaller cities are struggling with a lack of physicians, as a nationwide…

3 weeks ago

Malaria is still killing people in Kenya, but a vaccine and local drug production may help

MIGORI, Kenya (AP): As the coffin bearing the body of Rosebella Awuor was lowered into the grave, heart-wrenching sobs from…

3 weeks ago

Heatstroke kills 30 in Thailand this year as Southeast Asia bakes

BANGKOK (AFP): Millions of people across South and Southeast Asia sweltered through unusually hot weather on Thursday, as the Thai…

3 weeks ago

Use of alcohol and e-cigarettes among youth ‘alarming’: WHO

GENEVA (AFP): The widespread use of alcohol and e-cigarettes among adolescents is "alarming", according to a report released on Thursday…

3 weeks ago

Therapeutic nihilism? Alzheimer’s drug adoption in US slowed by scepticism

CHICAGO (Reuters): Nine months into the US launch of the first drug proven to slow the advance of Alzheimer's, Eisai…

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Vaccines saved at least 154 million lives in 50 years: WHO

GENEVA (AFP): Global immunisation efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years, the World Health…

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Bird flu viral fragments found in pasteurized milk: US officials

WASHINGTON (AFP): US health authorities said Tuesday they had discovered fragments of bird flu virus in the nation's pasteurized cow…

4 weeks ago

Moderna, Pfizer/BioNTech set for UK court clash over Covid jab patents

LONDON (AFP): A row between pharmaceutical firms Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech comes to court in London on Tuesday over patents for…

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