Healthcare

Due to the blockade of the only road connecting Artsakh to Armenia by Azerbaijan, scheduled surgeries continue to be suspended in the medical ...

Researchers at the University of Houston are working on a fentanyl vaccine that they say could be lifesaving for some people as the opioid epidemic ...

Norway has signed the largest ever deal with the United States for the acquisition of AMRAAM-D air-to-air missiles for F-35 fighter jets, worth ...

The National Center for Infectious Diseases has been equipped with European-made new up-to-date medical equipment. Thanks to the financial support ...

Chengdu has become the latest Chinese city to be locked down as Beijing continues to pursue its controversial "zero-Covid" policy.Around 21 million ...

The World Health Organization on Saturday declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency. "I have decided that the global monkeypox ...

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, called on all countries of the world to return to the mask ...

The first case of monkeypox was recorded in Russia. This was reported in Rospotrebnadzor. ''The first case of monkeypox has been confirmed in ...

The number of new coronavirus cases rose by 18% in the last week, with more than 4.1 million cases reported globally, according to the World Health ...

A new wave of Covid-19 is sweeping across Europe driven by Omicron mutations, an EU Medicines Agency official has warned. Head of vaccines at the ...

The World Health Organization on Friday called for ''urgent'' action to prevent the spread of monkeypox in Europe, noting that cases had tripled in ...

COVID-19 cases are on the rise in some 110 countries, driven by the BA.4 and BA.5 variants, said the UN health agency chief on Wednesday, amounting ...

The current monkeypox outbreak, which has infected 3,417 people across 42 countries, has on Thursday been declared a pandemic by World Health ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Sunday confirmed that a total of 780 monkeypox cases have been identified in 27 countries that are not ...

Nigeria has recorded 21 cases of monkeypox since the start of the year, one of which was fatal, the country’s disease control agency said. ...

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus has been re-elected to head the world health agency for a second five-year ...

France, Germany and Belgium confirmed their first cases of the monkeypox virus on Friday, joining European nations Spain, Italy, Portugal and ...

Gilead, a US biopharmaceutical company, has suspended all business operations in Russia that are not related to life-saving drugs. This is stated in ...

Since the invasion of Ukraine, hundreds of companies have announced a pause or withdrawal of businesses in Russia. Drugmakers Eli Lilly, Novartis ...

Eli Lilly will stop exporting non-essential medicines to Russia including Cialis, a treatment for erectile dysfunction, following Vladimir ...

The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two months after the groundbreaking experiment, the Maryland hospital that ...

A highly transmissible and damaging variant of HIV has been circulating in the Netherlands for decades, researchers have found. An analysis of ...

According to the UN’s flagship economic forecast released last week, the world is emerging from the depths of a paralyzing economic crisis, ...

French President Emanuel Macron has said he wants to anger the unvaccinated by driving them away from public places, even on intercity trains. "I ...

The scientists have linked the IHU variant to travel with Cameroon. It was first detected on December 10, but the WHO has still not labelled it as a ...

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Monday warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is not the last of its kind and that people should take measures ...

Austria will enter a nationwide lockdown from Monday, and Germany may consider a similar move as Europe grapples with a brutal surge in the ...

All 18 babies aged between 2 and 6 months old are now in stable condition after they were mistakenly given a Pfizer shot on November 3, according to ...

Protests have taken place in several Polish cities after a family's lawyer linked the death of a 30-year-old woman to tighter abortion laws.The ...

A 51-year-old man died on a charter plane operated by Turkish Pegasus Airlines. The plane from Istanbul landed at Hamburg Airport on 25 October. ...