Category : Health

 The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) today announced the renewal of their longstanding partnership with UNICEF to improve the health and well-being of...

By Francis Aboagye-Nyame African nations’ reliance on drug manufacturers in India and China leaves the continent vulnerable to drug stock-outs, it has emerged. The African...

COVID-19 vaccination campaigns have officially been rolled out in over 100 countries and are providing hope. But the pandemic continues and much essential work remains...

              NEW YORK — The one-and-done Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine is back in New York state. Gov. Andrew...

Since March 2020, the number of COVID-19 patients tested positive and admitted to New Souillac Hospital is 14, out of which seven required intubation and...

NHS workers protest for a pay rise for health workers outside 10 Downing Street NHS workers are demanding a green recovery to help get the...

OPINION One year after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic in March of 2020, the spread of the virus remains unabated. In...

The study included nearly 4,000 U.S. health care and frontline workers. A nurse administers a dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine at a clinic at...

Rising cases of coronavirus in Africa threaten to overrun fragile healthcare systems and test the continent’s much-touted resilience to the disease, according to the World Health...

The Nigerian government has taken delivery of the first set of 300,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines out of a total of 1.4 million doses designated...

 The African Union said on Thursday that it considers that the benefits of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine outweigh the risks and recommended that vaccinations continue across...

A new research study at the University of Chicago Medicine has found that when it comes to COVID-19, having vitamin D levels above those traditionally...

The Egyptian government has begun to prepare for a third wave of COVID-19. (Reuters) Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly has warned that the number of deaths...

Loyiso Dyongman/GroundUp Several immigrants in Makhanda say they have been turned away from local clinics when their permits to be in the country have expired....

Image: SABC News Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka says a lot of work has been done but our best is not good enough. The world finds itself at...

Billions of people are expected to suffer from some degree of hearing loss by 2050, according to a report from the World Health Organization (WHO),...

Dr Michael Ryan says Covid-19 is ‘very much in control’ as global infections rise for first time in almost two months Dr Michael Ryan, of...

By Brian P. Dunleavy  (0) Children born to mothers with diabetes are at greater for obesity as they age, a new study has found. File...

In tonight’s edition, Nigerian hospitals struggle under growing numbers of coronavirus cases as the wait for vaccines continue. In Niger, ruling party candidate Mohamed Bazoum...

The new doses, the statement notes, are accessible to the 55 AU member countries who will apply online using national access codes issued to the...