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WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office Ahmed al-Mandhari has repeatedly stated that “no one is safe until everyone is safe.” This statement, which he was keen to mention in many press conferences held by the regional office since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, underscores the importance…

World Health Organization calls for worldwide equity as case numbers grow and countries compete for 16.4 million doses

On July 23, the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern. It was a contentious decision, with the WHO’s director-general, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, making the final call and overruling the WHO’s emergency committee. The advisory committee’s disagreements mirrored debates that have been unfolding among…

I’m not alone when I confess that the COVID era wreaked havoc on my kids’ annual pediatrician visits.

‘We were saved by PM Modi’s vaccine and his deft handling of the economy’

‘Even having had Omicron, we’re not well protected from further infections,’ said Prof Danny Altmann

Rule that nurses must be supervised for clinics to be reimbursed nearly caused ‘health disaster’ when rural GP had to isolate, expert says

Deep into their third year of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, local and state public health workers are battered, depleted and, in many places, demoralized.

No one studying polio knew more than Albert Sabin, the Polish-American scientist whose vaccine against the crippling disease has been used worldwide since 1959. Sabin’s oral vaccine provides lifelong immunity. It has one drawback, which Sabin, who died in 1993, fiercely disputed: In rare cases, the weakened live poliovirus in…

Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute believe they found a genetic feature of the covid virus that appeared 'similar' to a number of coronaviruses that are less prone to mutations which could prove as a 'holy grail' vaccine.

Australian children aged 5–15 years have reported fewer side effects in the days after receiving the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine than those in clinical trials.