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At least 12 people have died as a result of the attacks and 34 more have been injured since Feb. 24.

Malaria is an old disease. Yet it continues to have devastating impacts on poor people, especially in Africa. To fight the disease, countries primarily use insecticide-treated bed nets to control the mosquitoes that transmit malaria parasites, or medicines to treat malaria patients.

More than half of women in South Africa projected to have condition, with no country expected to meet WHO target of halting rise, according to World Obesity Atlas figures

FORT WORTH, Texas — The May 19, 1958, cover of Time magazine features an artist's rendering of 23-year-old pianist Van Cliburn with a yellow banner across the top left corner that reads "The Texan Who Conquered Russia."

A World Health Organization (WHO) panel has backed the use of Merck & Co Inc's (NYSE:MRK) COVID-19 antiviral pill for high-risk patients. The expert panel conditionally recommended molnupiravir for patients with non-severe disease at high risk of hospitalization, such as the immunocompromised, the unvaccinated, older people, and those with chronic conditions. The recommendation was…

The World Health Organization on Wednesday recommended an anti-Covid pill be taken by sufferers who have mild symptoms but are at high risk of hospitalization, such as older people or the unvaccinated. The pill, called molnupiravir and developed by US pharmaceutical Merck, is taken as soon as possible after Covid-19…

Ukraine faces ‘imminent’ shortages of cancer and insulin medicines in addition to Oxygen supplies, WHO said

Global health leaders said there was a 25% rise in cases in the first year of the pandemic.

Director-General told a press conference that oxygen supply levels were dangerously low due to the conflict.