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Life & Style
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Health
5/3/2023 9:07:34 PM
The US approved the first vaccine for RSV on Wednesday, shots to protect older adults against a respiratory virus that’s most notorious for attacking babies but endangers their grandparents, too.
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World
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International
4/1/2023 10:39:56 AM
Without billions of dollars more to feed millions of hungry people, the world will see mass migration, destabilized countries, and starving children and adults in the next 12 to 18 months, the head of the Nobel prize-winning U.N. World Food Program warned Friday.
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World
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International
3/28/2023 7:46:21 PM
The World Health Organization said Tuesday it is no longer recommending additional Covid-19 vaccine booster doses for regular, medium-risk adults, saying the benefit was marginal.
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World
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International
3/27/2023 8:41:05 PM
A female shooter wielding two 'assault-style' rifles and a pistol killed three students and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville on Monday in what marks the latest in a series of mass shootings in a country growing increasingly unnerved by bloodshed in schools.
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COP27
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Focus
11/10/2022 3:08:43 PM
The climate change generation is saying officials are talking too much, listening too little and acting even less. And they are fed up.
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Life & Style
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Health
11/1/2022 10:50:12 AM
Research in Africa found a one-time dose of an experimental drug protected adults against malaria for at least six months, the latest approach in the fight against the mosquito-borne disease.
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World
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International
10/6/2022 1:17:00 PM
At least 24 children and 11 adults were killed Thursday in an attack that began at a childcare center in northeastern Thailand, authorities said. The gunman then fled the scene, shooting from his car as he drove home, where he killed his wife and child before taking his own life, police said.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Living
8/2/2022 8:35:55 PM
People with disabilities can now enjoy the sea for free at a special beach in Alexandria, writes Ameera Fouad
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World
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International
5/25/2022 1:43:21 PM
An 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children as he went from classroom to classroom at a Texas elementary school in a rampage that also left two adults dead, officials said, adding to a gruesome, yearslong series of mass killings at churches, schools and stores.
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World
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International
1/20/2022 9:29:17 PM
Austria's parliament voted Thursday to introduce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for adults from Feb. 1, the first of its kind in Europe, with maximum potential fines of up to 3,600 euros ($4,000) for people who don't comply after a series of reminders.
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World
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International
12/23/2021 6:50:51 PM
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday authorized Merck's Covid pill for high risk adults, a day after giving the green light to a similar pill by Pfizer.
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World
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International
10/18/2021 10:59:29 AM
U.S. officials are working with Haitian authorities to try to secure the release of 12 adults and five children with a U.S.-based missionary group who were abducted over the weekend by a gang notorious for killings, kidnappings and extortion.
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Life & Style
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Health
10/13/2021 12:39:56 PM
Older adults without heart disease shouldn’t take daily low-dose aspirin to prevent a first heart attack or stroke, an influential health guidelines group said in preliminary updated advice released
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World
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International
10/7/2021 9:56:10 AM
`'Today's recommendation offers a glimmer of hope for the continent, which shoulders the heaviest burden of the disease. And we expect many more African children to be protected from malaria and grow into healthy adults,' said Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO's Africa director
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World
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International
7/29/2021 9:45:34 AM
After a slow start to vaccinations, 57% of adults in the European Union are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the bloc's executive says
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World
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International
7/22/2021 3:27:15 PM
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World
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Region
7/11/2021 11:16:45 AM
Under the swap deal, Seoul will return the same number of shots, already on order from Pfizer, in September and October
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Business
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Economy
6/23/2021 3:10:41 PM
Georgieva said that Africa is already falling behind in terms of growth prospects, adding that the IMF expects the global economy to grow by 6 percent, but only half that — 3.2 percent — in Africa
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World
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International
6/21/2021 1:28:05 PM
Earlier this month, PM Narendra Modi reversed a policy under which states made their own purchases from drug makers and along with private hospitals were administering doses to people aged 18-45
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World
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International
6/19/2021 11:13:42 AM
Overall, about 168 million American adults, or 65.1% of the US population 18 years and older, have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as of Friday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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