The Ministry of Public Health says that so far this year only two cases of polio have been reported in Afghanistan – one in Kunar and...
Indonesia has halted sales of medicinal syrup after 99 children died of acute kidney injuries this year. The ban will remain until the health ministry completes...
A four-day polio vaccination campaign started in Afghanistan’s 22 provinces including Kabul on Monday, the Ministry of Public Health said. Around six million children under the...
Seventy children have died in Gambia from acute kidney injury, thought to be linked to Indian-made cough syrups, Reuters reported. The syrups were found to be...
The deaths of dozens of young children in Gambia from acute kidney injuries may be linked to contaminated cough and cold syrups made by an Indian...
Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paabo, who sequenced the genome of the Neanderthal and discovered the previously unknown hominin Denisova, on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize. Paabo’s...
Ugandan health authorities on Tuesday reported that a man who died a day earlier had tested positive for the virus that causes Ebola. They said it’s...
A nationwide polio vaccination campaign was launched in all provinces of the country on Monday, public health ministry officials said. The campaign will run for four...
The European Union’s Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation (ACCD) has contributed EUR 290,000 to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) fund for acutely malnourished children...
Nearly 600 mothers died while giving birth in the past year, the Ministry of Public Health said on Wednesday, adding however that the maternal mortality rate...
The World Health Organization (WHO), says that since August 2021, more than 86.7 million doses of polio vaccine have been administered to Afghan children. The organization...
Afghanistan’s minister of health Qalandar Ebad said Tuesday that two new hospitals funded by Iran will open soon – one in Kabul and one in Bamiyan....
New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, declared a disaster emergency on Friday and said the state was stepping up its polio-fighting efforts after the virus was detected...
Dr. Qalandar Ebad, the Minister of Public Health, has met with a number of Iranian officials and visited various health departments in Iran. In his meetings...
AstraZeneca’s (AZN.L) blockbuster diabetes drug Farxiga led to significant reductions in the risk of hospitalization and death in people with all types of heart failure, according...
A man in Indonesia has tested positive for monkeypox, making him the country’s first confirmed case of the disease, authorities said late Saturday. The 27-year-old who...
While India continues to battle COVID-19 and monkey pox, a new virus known as tomato flu, or tomato fever, has emerged in the state of Kerala...
Monkeypox infections continue to rise globally, with more than 35,000 cases across 92 countries and territories, and 12 deaths, the head of the World Health Organization...
One year on from Afghanistan’s transition of power in August 2021, the polio eradication programme in Afghanistan has made critical gains – but the job is...
The detection of poliovirus in wastewater samples from New York and London has sparked fears of a possible public health crisis but health experts in the...
