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With Planet Earth running a fever, U.N. climate talks have turned their focus on contagious effects on human health

A seven-day break in the fighting had allowed a significant increase in the delivery of badly needed food, fuel and medical supplies. But the flow of aid was halted by the resumption of airstrikes.

Group of 28 infants evacuated from the besieged al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City arrive in Egypt.

France will send more medical supplies and a second hospital ship to Gaza and is ready to welcome injured children in need of emergency care, President Emmanuel Macron's office said in a statement on Sunday. The UN has described the civilian death toll in Gaza as "staggering and unacceptable" and…

The pandemic brought notable setbacks in the effort to eradicate tuberculosis, which is likely to regain its notorious title of deadliest infectious disease in 2023. But there are signs of progress.

“For too long loneliness has existed behind the shadows, unseen and under-appreciated,” draining communities of their wellbeing, Murthy said. “Now we have an opportunity to change that."

Criticism of Israel’s attack on Gaza’s largest hospital is adding to global disquiet over its war on the enclave.

Medics say al-Shifa’s patients, including newborns, are dying due to the lack of fuel as Israeli forces encircle it.

Health officials say patients dying due to energy shortages as fighting between Israel and Hamas intensifies

Fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants outside Gaza’s largest hospital has prompted thousands of people to flee from the sprawling medical facility, but hundreds of patients and others displaced by the war remained inside, health officials said Monday

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