Health

In a statement published by the Ugandan Parliament on Tuesday following the directors' Monday meeting with the Parliamentary Health Committee, leaders called on the government to prioritize budgeting for the...

CAIRO - China's biopharmaceutical company Sinovac has signed a cooperation agreement with Egypt's Holding Company for Biological Products and Vaccines (VACSERA) to establish a cold storage facility for vaccine storage...

Covid-19 pandemic declared ‘nowhere near over’ It is likely that high levels of infection around the globe will lead to new Covid-19 variants due to virus mutations, according to the...

Software magnate Bill Gates has raised the specter of future viruses that could be more lethal than Covid-19, saying rich countries should ramp up vaccine funding to brace for potentially...

In a statement released on Wednesday, drugmaker Gilead Sciences said the company has seized 85,247 bottles from 17 locations in nine US states after an investigation into counterfeit medication. The...

“The aim is to protect the most vulnerable, to protect those at highest risk of severe disease and dying, those are our elderly population, immunocompromised with underlying conditions and also...

The two men are the most senior Vatican figures to test positive for the virus thus far. The church has not revealed when their most recent contact with the Pope took place,...

Marine plastics will outweigh the total mass of fish in the world's oceans in the coming decades, according to an environmental report that calls for a multilateral plastics treaty to...

WASHINGTON - Nearly 9.5 million children in the United States have tested positive for COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic, and child COVID-19 cases have "spiked dramatically" across the...

Failure to act on crisis will hold back recovery, WEF poll finds As the world started the third year of the coronavirus pandemic, most experts taking part in the research...