The coronavirus is spreading fast beyond its China birthplace but sub-Saharan Africa, one of the world's most vulnerable regions, has so far been almost spared—and experts want to know why.
Feb 27, 2020
0
10
The World Health Organization on Friday called on all nations to invest more in mental health, saying "the suffering is enormous" and has been made worse by the COVID pandemic.
Jun 17, 2022
0
97
Patients with breast cancer in conflict zones around the world are being "massively underserved" by governments, UN aid agencies and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs), Professor Richard Sullivan has told the Advanced ...
Nov 9, 2023
1
0
Ten years after the Iraq war of 2003 a team of scientists based in Mosul, northern Iraq, have detected high levels of uranium contamination in soil samples at three sites in the province of Nineveh which, coupled with dramatically ...
May 21, 2013
0
0
More children die from the indirect impact of armed conflicts in Africa than by weapons used in those conflicts, according to a new study led by Stanford University researchers.
Aug 31, 2018
0
37
A report on the state of the world's children released Tuesday notes major progress in health, education and safety in dozens of countries over the past two decades.
May 28, 2019
0
6
Service members deployed to conflict zones may be at greater risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder if they were physically, emotionally or sexually abused in childhood. This, along with other findings from a new ...
Jun 7, 2023
0
18
The global death toll in the coronavirus crisis soared past 60,000 on Saturday, as US calls for the public to cover their faces reignited debate about whether masks can be effective in stemming the pandemic.
Apr 4, 2020
0
2
Increased misinformation and the disruption of global supply chains due to COVID are behind the biggest sustained drop in childhood vaccinations in three decades, a UN report said.
Jul 15, 2022
0
13
(Medical Xpress)—Despite nearly three decades of conflict, Sri Lanka has succeeded in reducing malaria cases by 99.9 percent since 1999 and is on track to eliminate the disease entirely by 2014.
Aug 30, 2012
0
0
