Browsing: Public Health

GENEVA: China criticized the United States for withdrawing from the World Health Organization, telling a meeting of the WHO Executive Board that countries should not place domestic politics ahead of international law as member states consider how to handle the

LYON: Nearly four in 10 cancer cases worldwide could be prevented by reducing exposure to known, modifiable risk factors, according to a new analysis from the World Health Organization and its cancer research agency released for World Cancer Day. The

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s health regulators and medical leaders say unqualified practitioners are operating at vast scale, with the Pakistan Medical Association putting the number of “fake doctors” at more than 600,000 nationwide, a figure the Sindh HealthCare Commission has said aligns

MENA Newswire, BOSTON: Scientists at Tufts University say they have developed a more efficient way to make tagatose, a naturally occurring “rare sugar” that tastes close to table sugar while delivering fewer calories and a much smaller rise in blood

MENA Newswire, PARIS: Researchers have reported evidence linking higher intake of certain food preservatives to an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, based on a large observational study tracking dietary habits and health outcomes over more than a decade.

Childhood tuberculosis (TB) cases have surged across Europe and Central Asia, according to a joint report released today by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe. The findings

Scientists in China have identified a new bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, with genetic similarities to SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has assured the public that there is no

An unidentified illness has claimed the lives of more than 50 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) within hours of symptom onset, prompting urgent investigations by local health authorities and the World Health Organization (WHO). The outbreak,

A measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico has resulted in at least 58 confirmed cases in West Texas over the past three weeks, marking the state’s most significant surge in nearly three decades. Health officials report that the majority

MENA Newswire News Desk: A recent study from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) reveals that alcohol consumption is responsible for more than 5% of all global cancer cases. The findings, part of the AACR Cancer Progress Report 2024,