Health

WELLINGTON: New Zealand will repeal a world-first law banning tobacco sales for future generations, even while researchers and campaigners warned of the risk that people could die as a result. Set to take effect from July, the toughest…
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WASHINGTON: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to spend more this year than ever before -- $8.6 billion -- as wider health funding for the lowest income countries stutters after the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2024 budget agreed by…
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GENEVA: The World Health Organization on Thursday urged governments to apply tobacco-style controls to vapes, saying they are getting new users hooked on nicotine. Analysts and investors said big tobacco firms shifting to new nicotine…
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A mystery respiratory illness has stricken dogs in at least 14 states, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association, which is asking vets to report cases while laboratories race to isolate the pathogen. Researchers are still…
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WELLINGTON: New Zealand's incoming conservative government will jettison world-leading measures to stub out smoking, new Prime Minister Christopher Luxon confirmed on Monday, in a move described by health campaigners as a "huge win for the…
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Surgeons in New York have performed the first-ever whole-eye transplant in a human, an accomplishment being hailed as a breakthrough even though the patient has not regained sight in the eye. In the six months since the surgery, performed…
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World Mental Health Day is being observed to raise awareness of mental health issues around the world and mobilize efforts in support of mental health. The day provides an opportunity for all stakeholders working on mental health issues…
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ISLAMABAD: The National Institute of Health (NIH) has issued an advisory in view of the reported cases of the Nipah virus (NiV) in south India. So far, no case of Nipah virus has been reported in Pakistan, said the spokesperson of the…
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The first two cases of monkeypox have been detected in people who travelled to Pakistan from Saudi Arabia. The two patients are from Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Mpox (monkeypox) is a viral illness caused by the monkeypox virus, a species…
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WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addressed the press at the World Health Organization's headquarters in Geneva and called out countries globally who are unable to curtail the consumption of trans-fat. According to WHO…
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A highly contagious virus called Norovirus is resurfacing in the UK and experts warn that a hand sanitiser will not be able to stop its spread, The pmc reported. While the virus usually appears in winter, it was avoided due to COVID…
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But the Omicron strain has broken through its defences in recent months and taken hold in multiple cities.
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Two years after the official start of the pandemic, some countries are now trying to "live with Covid", however scientists warn that potential new variants and unequal vaccination rates threaten any long-awaited return to normality.
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Many locals are fuming at the government's failure to prepare after winning rare breathing room with two years of an economically painful but largely successful zero-Covid strategy.
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New York latest to roll back mask mandates as US eyes normalization More than 900,000 people have been killed by Covid-19 in the United States, according to the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus tracker PMC/Joseph Prezioso) Joseph…
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