Health
London, Feb 6 (EFE).- British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Tuesday that King Charles III’s cancer was «caught early.» Britain’s King Charles III departs the London Clinic In London, Britain, 29 January 2024. King Charles III left hospital following treatment for an enlarged prostate. EFE-EPA FILE/ANDY RAIN «Thankfully this...
New York, US, Feb 1 (EFE).- Publicis Health, part of the French advertising giant Publicis Groupe, which developed marketing strategies for the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma, producer of the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin, agreed on Thursday to pay $350 million for its role in the opioid crisis in the United...
Geneva, Jan 22 (EFE).- Central African country Cameroon on Monday began the world’s first vaccination campaign for children against malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills hundreds of thousands in Africa every year. Children in 42 districts of Cameroon will receive the RTS,S vaccine, which was successfully tested in pilot programs...
Islamabad, Jan 9 (EFE).- At least two police officers were killed and two others wounded in an attack on a polio vaccination team in Pakistan on Tuesday. The attack comes a day after five people were killed when a bomb hit a police truck which was transporting medical workers to...
Islamabad, Jan 8 (EFE).- At least five policemen died and 22 others were wounded when a truck transporting them was hit by a bomb early Monday in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said. “A truck carrying police officials was hit by a bomb at 8.50 in the morning” in Mamond...
New York, Jan 5 (EFE).- American singer Michael Bolton announced Friday the cancellation of several concerts while he recovers from a brain tumor removal surgery. In a statement on social media, Bolton, 70, revealed the tumor was discovered just before Christmas, after which he successfully underwent an emergency intervention. «I...
Seoul, Jan 4 (EFE).- South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung has been discharged from the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and is recovering well from surgery after being stabbed in the neck earlier this week, his surgeon said on Thursday. «Lee is recovering smoothly but requires continued observation due to...
London, Jan 3 (EFE).- Junior doctors in England began a six-day strike on Wednesday to demand better wage conditions, marking the longest such strike in the history of the country’s National Health Service (NHS). The doctors left their duties at 7am GMT and are set to resume at the same...
By Anas Baba Rafah, Gaza, Dec 23 (EFE) .- The war in Gaza has caused widespread hunger, a shortage of medicines and a lack of proper hygiene, triggering the spread of infectious diseases to extremes never before seen in the enclave, a situation only expected with time. A collapsed healthcare...
Dublin, Dec 21 (EFE).- Ireland announced a new law Thursday that prohibits the sale of vaping products to those under 18 years of age. «I committed to bringing this ban on the sale of vaping products to under 18s into law before Christmas and I am pleased that I have...
New Delhi, Dec 18 (EFE).-The police on Monday arrested a school principal and a teacher in southern India for forcing several students to manually clean a septic tank. «Principal Bharathamma and Professor Muniyappa are arrested» in relation to the case, local police officer M. Narayan told EFE. The arrests occurred...
Singapore, Dec 16 (EFE).- Singapore’s health ministry has «strongly» encouraged people to wear masks in crowded places amid rising Covid-19 cases in recent weeks. The number of Covid-19 cases in the island country rose to 56,043 between Dec. 3 to 9 compared to 32,035 cases in the previous week, the...
