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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
7/26/2025 2:56:11 PM
At least 25 people were killed by Israeli airstrikes and gunshots overnight, according to health officials and the ambulance service on Saturday, as ceasefire talks appear to have stalled and Palestinians in Gaza face famine.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
7/25/2025 9:47:09 PM
The Universal Health Insurance System was officially launched in Aswan.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
7/24/2025 5:43:19 PM
Four leading news organisations said Thursday that their journalists in Gaza are facing the threat of starvation as the Israeli war grinds on, while the Palestinian Health Ministry said 48 people in Gaza have died of malnutrition this past month.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/22/2025 8:09:39 PM
The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday a major chikungunya virus epidemic risks sweeping around the globe, calling for urgent action to prevent it.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/22/2025 4:07:46 PM
The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean joined mental health partners and stakeholders on 17 July in Cairo to launch the Regional Coalition for Mental Health Promotion and Substance Use Prevention.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/17/2025 10:16:24 PM
Eight healthy babies have been born in the UK using a new IVF technique that successfully reduced their risk of inheriting genetic diseases from their mothers, the results of a world-first trial said Wednesday.
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Egypt
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Health
7/17/2025 8:59:44 PM
The Ministry of Health and Population confirmed on Thursday that no infectious diseases were detected after conducting laboratory tests on the five siblings who died this week in Minya Governorate.
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World
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Region
7/17/2025 11:47:00 AM
A fire tore through a shopping mall in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut overnight, killing more than 50 people, medical sources told AFP Thursday.
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World
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Region
7/16/2025 8:06:00 PM
Syria's health ministry said a series of Israeli strikes on the army and defence ministry headquarters in Damascus on Wednesday killed one person and wounded another 18.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
7/16/2025 2:12:35 PM
To the shock of his friends and colleagues, the Egyptian director Sameh Abdel-Aziz passed away last Thursday at the age of 49. He had been briefly hospitalised with a sudden health issue. Social media was filled with touching tributes.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/16/2025 2:02:54 PM
More than 14 million children did not receive a single vaccine last year — about the same number as the year before — according to U.N. health officials.
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Egypt
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Health
7/14/2025 10:29:24 PM
The new coronavirus variant NB.1.8.1, also known as Nimbus and currently under monitoring by the World Health Organization (WHO), has not been detected in Egypt, according to a senior health official.
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Egypt
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Health
7/14/2025 7:57:36 PM
Egypt’s fertility rate fell to 2.41 children per woman in 2024, down from 2.85 in 2021—a 15.4 percent decline over three years, Health Minister Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar stated on Monday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Focus
7/14/2025 2:37:00 PM
Pollution by microplastics is increasingly posing a major threat to the world’s seas and oceans, as well as human health, writes Dina Hassan
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World
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Africa
7/13/2025 11:47:27 PM
Cameroon's 92-year-old president announced Monday he will seek his eighth term in the upcoming October elections. The announcement comes after months of speculation that the aging leader would not run, setting the stage for an electoral showdown.
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Egypt
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Health
7/13/2025 8:29:36 PM
The Ministry of Health and Population affirmed in its statement on Sunday that claims about the simultaneous death of four siblings in Minya Governorate in Upper Egypt due to Meningitis disease are unfounded and scientifically unverified.
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World
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Region
7/12/2025 2:01:51 PM
Lebanon's health ministry said an Israeli strike on south Lebanon on Saturday killed one person, the latest attack despite a ceasefire between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah.
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World
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Region
7/11/2025 6:30:29 PM
An Israeli air strike on southern Lebanon on Friday killed one person, the Lebanese health ministry said, the latest attack despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
7/10/2025 11:20:00 PM
Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli strikes killed 66 people across the territory on Thursday, including eight children who died while queuing for nutritional supplements outside a health clinic.
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Egypt
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Health
7/10/2025 2:12:00 PM
The Ministry of Health announced the launch of a comprehensive pilot upgrade of its free-of-charge unified hotline (105), transforming it into a centralized platform that operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to deliver all health services and receive public complaints.
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