Global fears spread about Mpox- How worried should you be?
The World Health Organization (WHO) regional director for Europe warned on Thursday that Mpox could spread to other countries after...
WHO says 9,000 patients need emergency evacuation from Gaza
"Around 9,000 patients urgently need to be evacuated abroad for lifesaving health services, including treatment for cancer, injuries from bombardments,...
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WHO renews ties with Saudi drug authority for global cooperation
The approval is expected to transform the regional center into a global center covering the eastern Mediterranean and Africa.
- The move aims to contribute to the SFDA in assisting emerging countries in monitoring and regulating medical devices and supplies
- It also looks to benefit from the WHO’s expertise in various regulatory and supervisory areas in medical devices and supplies
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US nears 1m Covid dead, as New York seeks to move on
America recorded its first coronavirus death, on the West Coast, in early February 2020. By the next month, the virus...
- The US has recorded a rise in the number of daily virus cases in recent weeks due to the new Omicron subvariant and the lifting of mask mandates
- Ideological clashes in public over curfews, mask mandate, and vaccine mandates resulted in the country hitting the highest death toll in the world
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‘Workplaces must prioritize mental health’
In many industries, working from home is the way of the future and a better working and mental lifestyle, Quartz...
- People tense or stressed at work are more than three times likely to plan to look for a new job
- In contrast, employees who feel supported are more likely to stay, lowering turnover costs
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DEWA inches closer to finishing $72.42m water project
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has completed 98.83% of its project to extend its water transmission network by 36...
- The project includes enhancement of water network including installation and commissioning of pipelines
- DEWA’s efforts have reduced the losses in water transmission and distribution networks from 42% in 1988 to 5.3% currently
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Downtown Beijing goes quiet as zero-Covid policy smothers capital
Millions of people in Beijing stayed home on Monday as China's capital tries to fend off a Covid-19 outbreak with...
- Lockdown in Shanghai has also intensified, causing outrage and rare protest in the last major economy still glued to a zero-Covid policy
- The policy has winded an economy which just months ago had shown China was bouncing back fast from the pandemic
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UAE’s Covid-19 response gets global plaudits
Earlier this year, the UAE rose to the top of Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience Ranking, outperforming European countries in terms of...
- For one, smart-technology platforms were effectively used in the UAE to combat Covid-19
- The UAE also adopted the mandatory use of face masks in March 2020, well ahead of the WHO recommendation
Saudi King Salman to stay in hospital after colonoscopy
On Sunday afternoon doctors performed a colonoscopy “and the result was sound”, the Saudi Press Agency later said.
- On Sunday afternoon doctors performed a colonoscopy “and the result was sound”, the Saudi Press Agency later said
- The king underwent gallbladder surgery in 2020 and had the battery of his heart pacemaker replaced in March
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Fears mount for China’s economy as leaders dig in on zero-Covid
Mass testing of China's vast population could bring fresh misery to the economy, experts warned Friday, after Beijing vowed to...
- Authorities have refused to bend to mounting public outcry at food shortages and spartan quarantine conditions
- China's government has brandished the strategy as proof that it values human life above material concerns
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WHO claims 13-16 million people died due to Covid in 2020-21
The WHO declared Covid an international public health emergency on January 30, 2020, after cases of the new coronavirus spread...
- The figures give a more realistic picture of the worst pandemic in a century, which killed around one in 500 people worldwide.
- The figures are extremely sensitive due to how they reflect on the handling of the crisis by authorities around the world.
Sandstorm leaves more than 1,000 Iraqis in hospital
More than 1,000 Iraqis were rushed to hospital with respiratory ailments on Thursday due to a sandstorm, the seventh to...
- Authorities in Al-Anbar and Kirkuk provinces, north of the capital, urged people to stay indoors
- Hospitals in Al-Anbar province had received more than 700 patients with breathing difficulties
Global fears spread about Mpox- How worried should you be?
The World Health Organization (WHO) regional director for Europe warned on Thursday that Mpox could spread to other countries after...
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Gulf countries witness alarming increase in early-onset cancer cases
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Sudan refugees stranded without healthcare in Chad
The new arrivals in Adre may now be safe from the gunfire, but they soon learn they are still in...
- The risk of disease soars in the absence of clean water, for which people "begin lining up ... at 2:00 am" amid shortages in some camps, MSF reported
- In Sudan, even before the current conflict began in April, 78,000 children under five died every year "from preventable causes, such as malaria", UN says
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EU okays updated Pfizer and BioNTech’s anti-Covid vaccine
Adults and children over five require a single shot "irrespective of their Covid-19 vaccination history" while younger children may get...
- The European Medicines Agency said it "has recommended authorizing an adapted Comirnaty vaccine targeting the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant".
- Known as Comirnaty Omicron XBB.1.5, the mRNA vaccine is to be used to prevent Covid-19 in adults and children from six months.
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Saudi hospital installs world’s first automated medication dispensing machine
Tabuk, Saudi Arabia -- King Salman Hospital in Saudi Arabia’s northwestern region has installed the world's first automated medication dispensing...
- With a storage capacity ranging from 102 to 700 medical prescriptions, the machine can fill prescriptions containing multiple medications
- The beneficiaries submit requests to get their prescriptions filled by scanning the barcode attached to the prescription