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Life & Style
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Health
2/9/2025 3:30:21 PM
The US agency overseeing medical research has announced a major cut in funding to universities and research centers, a move strongly condemned by scientists and academics who say work on cancer and other diseases will suffer.
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World
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International
2/3/2025 3:42:21 PM
The World Health Organization chief asked global leaders to lean on Washington to reverse President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the U.N. health agency, insisting in a closed-door meeting with diplomats last week that the U.S. will miss out on critical information about global disease outbreaks.
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Life & Style
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Health
1/18/2025 12:14:02 PM
Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating and fatal hereditary disorder that strikes in the prime of life, causing nerve cells in parts of the brain to break down and die.
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Life & Style
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Health
1/11/2025 11:48:44 AM
Genetically engineered mosquitoes with toxic semen could be a new weapon against tropical disease, Australian scientists said after trialling the novel pest control method.
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World
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International
12/31/2024 1:25:50 PM
Beijing insisted on Tuesday that it had shared information on COVID-19 "without holding anything back" after the World Health Organization implored China to offer more data and access to understand the disease's origins.
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Egypt
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Health
12/18/2024 6:03:25 PM
The official spokesperson for the Ministry of Health and Population, Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar, said the “Your Heart is Your Responsibility” campaign, which aims to raise awareness about cardiovascular diseases and their prevention, has been successfully implemented in 401 primary healthcare units across 21 governorates in Egypt since 2023.
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Life & Style
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Health
12/8/2024 1:17:55 PM
The World Health Organization announced it had given a first-ever green light to a test for tuberculosis -- a disease which killed 1.25 million people last year.
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Life & Style
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Health
11/19/2024 12:14:19 PM
The spread of a mosquito in East Africa that thrives in urban areas and is immune to insecticide is fueling a surge in malaria that could reverse decades of progress against the disease, experts say.
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Life & Style
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Health
11/16/2024 11:54:03 AM
Medical experts agree that walking is an easy way to improve physical and mental health, bolster fitness and prevent disease.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
11/12/2024 5:22:00 PM
Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdelatty has stressed the necessity to strengthen the humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip, especially with the onset of winter and the worsening famine and disease caused by the Israeli 13-month-old war on the strip.
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Business
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Economy
11/10/2024 7:25:42 PM
The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) signed a cooperation protocol with the Health Ministry's Medical Emergency and Genetic and Rare Disease Fund.
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Life & Style
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Health
11/9/2024 12:33:57 PM
Record-breaking heat, extreme weather events, air pollution and the spread of infectious disease: climate change poses an already vast yet rising threat to the health of humans around the world, experts warn.
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Life & Style
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Health
10/19/2024 12:06:50 PM
There are no more oral cholera vaccines left in the global stockpile, the World Health Organization said Friday, with the shortage jeopardising work to stop the disease’s spread.
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Life & Style
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Health
10/6/2024 12:21:58 PM
The World Health Organization announced a global plan to battle dengue and other diseases carried by mosquitos as they spread faster and further amid climate change.
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World
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Region
9/13/2024 6:48:24 PM
Morocco has recorded a case of mpox in the tourist city of Marrakesh, the first in north Africa since the WHO declared an international emergency last month, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Friday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
9/7/2024 8:12:00 PM
The World Health Organisation (WHO) periodically issues warnings about the threat of malaria outbreaks in African countries, particularly those with swamp land near populated areas and that suffer from a lack of essential resources to combat the deadly disease.
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Life & Style
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Health
9/7/2024 9:28:00 AM
Polio was eliminated from most parts of the world . But polio is one of the world’s most infectious diseases and is still spreading in a small number of countries. What is this disease and why does it come back?
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Life & Style
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Health
9/4/2024 9:25:25 PM
The number of cholera cases and deaths rose sharply last year, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, calling for more to be done to stem the preventable disease.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
9/3/2024 9:19:29 PM
The polio vaccination campaign in Gaza that unrolled this week is the first time in 11 months that Israel has allowed humanitarian groups to address an infectious disease in the enclave out of fears of a cross-border outbreak, writes Amira Howeidy
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Life & Style
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Health
8/28/2024 1:16:47 PM
The growing mpox outbreaks in Africa that triggered the World Health Organization’s emergency declaration are largely the result of decades of neglect and the global community’s inability to stop sporadic epidemics among a population with little immunity against the smallpox-related disease, leading African scientists said.
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