Health

UK inflation rate surprisingly jumps to 10.4 percent in February

Inflation in the United Kingdom unexpectedly rose to 10.4 percent in February, pushed up by higher food prices and pricier drinks in restaurants, official...

‘Patients were screaming’: Panic as quake hits northwest Pakistan

Muhammed Zubair Khan was buying groceries at a shop in Abbottabad city in northwest Pakistan when he felt the ground shaking. “The shopkeeper suddenly started...

A nurse on the picket lines in the UK

When Lisa Jeffery was 21, she was rushed to the hospital, experiencing excruciating pain in her pelvis. She was suffering from an ectopic pregnancy...

BioNTech mobile mRNA vaccine labs reach Rwanda

Six mobile vaccine production units by German pharma company BioNTech arrived in Rwanda on Monday, the first such shipments to Africa as the continent...

Rwanda ramps up screening for Cervical Cancer with new device

When doctors diagnosed Lillian with cervical cancer, "it was a really scary moment." But a new, tailored treatment gave the 30-year-old Rwandan woman hope. "The...

Young Afghan women train as midwives to serve in remote villages

In a small village encircled by velvety white snow-topped mountains in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan province, Aziza Rahimi mourns the baby she lost last year after...

The Dalit mothers who were forced to become wet nurses

On a sunny afternoon in February 2021, I sat with my great aunt Yellamma under the shade of a neem tree. We were in Ramavaram,...

CDC issues warning over an increase of drug-resistant bacteria

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a health advisory to warn the public of an increase of a drug-resistant bacteria...

China dismisses US energy department’s lab-leak report on COVID origin

Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning on Monday refuted a US Department of Energy assessment report that claimed the Covid-19 pandemic most likely came...

Togo’s Covid-19 fund scandal: Government denies misappropriation claims

The Togolese government has dismissed allegations of malfeasance in the management of the fund intended to fight the coronavirus epidemic, saying that spending is...

‘Shame for WHO’: Victim of sex misconduct slams UN response

A woman who claims she was victimized by a World Health Organization doctor during a recent Ebola outbreak in Congo said she is shocked...

County vows to help women with multiple births

Kakamega Woman Representative Elsie Muhanda is in talks with MCAs to pass a law to cater for mothers giving birth to more than two...

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