Health

No new variants in weeks after China ended zero-Covid: study

Shawdesh Desk; No new variants of Covid-19 emerged in Beijing in the weeks after China ended its zero-Covid policy late last year, a new study said on Wednesday. China saw

Australian scientists make breakthrough in Alzheimer’s research

Shawdesh desk: A team from Australia’s national science agency has used artificial intelligence to make a breakthrough in Alzheimer’s disease research. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) said

Australian scientists make breakthrough in Alzheimer’s research

World ‘dangerously unprepared’ for next crisis: Red Cross

Shawdesh desk: All countries remain “dangerously unprepared” for the next pandemic, the Red Cross warned on Monday, saying future health crises could also collide with increasingly likely climate-related disasters. Despite

N. Korea locks down capital over ‘respiratory illness’: report

Shawdesh desk: North Korea has ordered a five-day lockdown in the capital over “respiratory illness”, a report said Wednesday, in what appears to be the first city-wide restrictions since Pyongyang

WHO launches Council to develop TB vaccines, hoping to save millions of lives

Shawdesh dEsk: The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has unveiled plans to speed up the licensing and use of effective novel vaccines against tuberculosis (TB),

Nearly one billion served by healthcare facilities without reliable electricity

Shawdesh Desk: Although electricity is critical to healthcare provision, nearly a billion people in poorer countries – one-eighth of the global population – are served by health facilities that lack

UN calls for urgent help to combat acute child malnutrition

Shawdesh Desk: The United Nations called Thursday for urgent funding to help 30 million children suffering from acute malnutrition “before it is too late” in countries being hammered by the