New Zealand’s smoking rate has fallen to a historic low of eight percent of adults smoking daily, down from 9.4 percent a year ago, ahead of the country’s goal of being smokefree by 2025, Associate [Read More]
JERUSALEM – Israel’s new parliament was sworn in on Tuesday after the right-wing bloc won the elections two weeks ago. The 120 elected lawmakers were sworn-in at a session of the parliament, or Knesset, hosted [Read More]
AMMAN – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) urgently needs between 50 million and 80 million U.S. dollars to finish the year and maintain the operations of its schools, health [Read More]
BEIRUT – A national vaccination campaign against cholera was launched on Saturday in northern Lebanon, which was hit hard by the disease over the last several weeks, the health ministry announced in a statement. The [Read More]
The liver from a 100-year-old woman has been successfully transplanted to another patient in Italy, the first time such a procedure has ever been carried out on a donor of such an advanced age, the [Read More]
France has raised the risk level of the highly pathogenic bird flu from “moderate” to “high”, the Official Journal of the French Republic reported on Thursday. This will force nationwide farms to keep all poultry [Read More]
French Minister of Health Francois Braun activated on Wednesday the national emergency response plan to help hospitals cope with soaring bronchiolitis infections among children. “I decided this morning, in addition to everything else that had [Read More]
Adults with hypertension saw a small but consequential rise in their blood pressure levels during the first eight months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study. The COVID-19 pandemic saw widespread stay-at-home orders [Read More]
The United Nations and partners are scaling up aid to Haiti, which has been hit with a spreading cholera outbreak, a UN spokeswoman said on Tuesday. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the regional office [Read More]
U.S. researchers have developed a three-dimensional (3D) model that shows how exposure to cadmium might lead to congenital heart disease, according to a new study. Affecting nearly 40,000 newborns a year, congenital heart disease is [Read More]
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