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The news agency Reuters has unearthed a scientific scandal of huge proportions where millions of dollars continued to be given in funds for research that has been found to have been based on fake data. The scandal is about the claim made by Piero Anversa of the Harvard Medical School working at his laboratory in Brigham and
The number of people visiting Smoking Cessation Clinics in 2018 rose by 47 per cent as compared to the year 2016, the ministry said in its achievement report released on the occasion of "World No Tobacco Day," which falls on May 31 every year.
The Philippines has reported its first case of the monkeypox virus, detected in a citizen who returned from abroad earlier this month, a health ministry official said.
Nursing mothers infected with the viral diseases Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Monkey Pox must be cautious when breastfeeding.
The World Health Organization says cases of measles are continuing to spike globally, with multiple large outbreaks being reported across Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.
WHO estimated that in Turkey, where more than 4,000 buildings have collapsed in the quake, 15 hospitals had suffered partial or heavy damage.
The ministry called on local authorities to open more fever clinics and promote vaccinations among children and the elderly as the country grapples with a wave of respiratory illnesses in its first full winter since the removal of COVID-19 restrictions. "
WHO Chief Tedros told the 34-member board in Geneva that medical needs in Gaza had surged and the risk of disease had grown, yet the health system had been reduced to a third of its pre-conflict capacity.
"Our staff are running out of words to describe the beyond catastrophic situation facing remaining patients and health workers," said Richard Peeperkorn, the WHO representative for the Palestinian territory.
The head of the WHO said the health system in Gaza was being destroyed and reiterated his call for a ceasefire. He also hailed Gaza's medical workers who continue their work under increasingly dire circumstances.