Life & Style
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Health
8/29/2022 12:02:41 PM
The World Health Organization’s COVID-19 chief said Friday it was time for a reality check on the virus after the millionth death from the disease this year.
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Egypt
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Health
8/27/2022 1:39:07 PM
Qasr El-Aini University Hospital, which is affiliated with Cairo University, has used a robot to perform advanced surgeries - free-of-charge - for patients with renal failure disease, a first.
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Life & Style
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Health
8/18/2022 11:25:46 AM
Studies are under way to see whether genetic changes in the monkeypox virus are driving the rapid spread of the disease, the World Health Organization told AFP.
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World
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International
8/17/2022 6:37:16 PM
British pharmaceutical company GSK has been awarded a contract to produce the world's first malaria vaccine so that millions more children will be protected against the killer disease, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) announced late on Tuesday.
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Life & Style
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Health
8/14/2022 12:24:27 PM
The World Health Organization says it’s holding an open forum to rename the disease monkeypox, after some critics raised concerns the name could be derogatory or have racist connotations.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Entre nous
8/9/2022 9:11:28 PM
Mangoes can help in reducing the risk of lifestyle-related health conditions such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.
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Life & Style
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Health
8/9/2022 1:56:44 PM
Climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves and drought have worsened more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases in people, including malaria, hantavirus, cholera and anthrax, a study says.
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Life & Style
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Health
8/9/2022 11:41:05 AM
Researchers are seeking thousands of volunteers to test the first potential vaccine against Lyme disease in 20 years -- in hopes of better fighting the tick-borne threat.
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World
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International
8/8/2022 5:27:22 PM
After news broke that the U.S. declared monkeypox to be a public health emergency, friends and family started asking me, an infectious disease epidemiologist, if monkeypox is about to begin causing widespread death and chaos. I assured them that Aug. 4, 2022, public health emergency declaration is about government resource allocation.
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Life & Style
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Health
8/7/2022 1:44:57 PM
The Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation is holding workshops for doctors across Egypt on the latest techniques in the diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects in children.
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World
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Region
8/4/2022 10:46:59 PM
The United States on Thursday declared monkeypox a public health emergency, a move that should free up new funds, assist in data gathering and allow the deployment of additional personnel in the fight against the disease.
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World
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International
7/30/2022 2:51:01 PM
Moves by rich countries to buy large quantities of monkeypox vaccine, while declining to share doses with Africa, could leave millions of people unprotected against a more dangerous version of the disease and risk continued spillovers of the virus into humans, public health officials are warning.
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Egypt
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Health
7/24/2022 8:16:31 PM
The Ministry of Health and Population announced on Sunday that 1.576 million women have been screened for diseases that can be transmitted from mother to fetus – known as vertically transmitted infections – as part of the Mother and Fetus Presidential Health sub-initiative since its launch in March 2020.
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World
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International
7/24/2022 6:38:12 PM
In July 2022 Ghana confirmed its first two cases of the deadly Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola. The Conversation Africa’s Wale Fatade and Usifo Omozokpea asked virologist Oyewale Tomori about its origin and how people can protect themselves against the disease.
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World
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International
7/23/2022 6:36:29 PM
The expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an ``extraordinary'' situation that qualifies as a global emergency, the World Health Organization chief said Saturday, a declaration that could spur further investment in treating the once-rare disease and worsen the scramble for scarce vaccines.
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World
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International
7/22/2022 2:28:58 PM
The European Medicines Agency said Friday that the smallpox vaccine made by Bavarian Nordic should also be authorized against monkeypox, as the outbreak of the once-rare disease continues to sicken people across the continent.
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World
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International
7/18/2022 9:46:44 PM
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's top infectious disease expert, said Monday he plans to retire by the end of President Joe Biden's term in January 2025.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/18/2022 4:19:16 PM
Africa faces a growing threat from zoonotic diseases such as monkeypox, the WHO said, with the continent recording a 63-percent rise in such outbreaks over the past decade.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/18/2022 4:18:22 PM
Countries should step up their work on genomic technologies to combat diseases, and share that technology more quickly with developing nations, a new WHO report argued,
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World
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Africa
7/17/2022 10:13:13 PM
The World Health Organization has declared Ghana's first outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus disease after labs confirmed the infections in two cases announced earlier this month.
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