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Business
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Markets & Companies
11/2/2022 1:04:10 PM
Egypt has witnessed a boom in its healthcare sector over the past few years with the establishment of robust and effective entities, such as the Egyptian Drug Authority and the Unified Purchasing Authority, besides the implementation of the Universal Healthcare System, which all come in line with Egypt's Vision 2030, said Michael Wanis, country head of Bayer, a German multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
11/1/2022 5:18:11 PM
It is essential that Egypt’s healthcare entities collaborate among themselves and with the pharma manufacturing companies to ensure the flow of a strategic stockpile of vital and important drugs to patients, said General Manager of Sandoz for Egypt & Libya Sameh Elbagoury.
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Business
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Economy
11/1/2022 2:26:23 PM
Over the past few years, Egypt has removed obstacles to making vital pharmaceutical treatments available to patients through the mechanisms of the Unified Purchasing Authority and the Egyptian Drug Authority, said Sherif Amin, the country president at Novartis Egypt.
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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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Life & Style
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Health
10/28/2022 1:04:39 PM
The number of people infected with tuberculosis, including the kind resistant to drugs, rose globally for the first time in years, according to a report by the World Health Organization.
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Sports
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Omni sports
10/24/2022 11:16:06 AM
Darren Cahill, a renowned coach who helped Simona Halep to Grand Slam glory, said Monday there was "no chance, none, zero," that the former world number one purposely took drugs.
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Life & Style
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Health
9/28/2022 11:16:38 PM
Shares of Biogen and other drugmakers researching Alzheimer's disease soared early Wednesday after Japan's Eisai Co. said its potential treatment appeared to slow the fatal disease in a late-stage study.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
9/11/2022 12:24:15 PM
A documentary tracing an artist's campaign against the family behind the US opioid drug epidemic scooped the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, on Saturday.
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Life & Style
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Health
9/5/2022 1:46:39 PM
Chinese drug regulators have approved the world's first inhalable Covid-19 vaccine, made by Tianjin-based manufacturer CanSino Biologics, boosting the company's share price by seven percent on Monday.
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Life & Style
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Health
9/4/2022 2:47:47 PM
Entirely new COVID-19 variants could emerge this winter but existing vaccines should protect people from serious illness and death, the EU's drug agency said .
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World
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Region
8/12/2022 3:12:17 PM
The biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change. A hard-fought cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for Medicare recipients. A new corporate minimum tax to ensure big businesses pay their share.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
8/5/2022 5:10:28 PM
The drug smuggling conviction in Russia of US basketball star Brittney Griner has again raised the question of potential prisoner exchanges between Moscow and Washington.
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World
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International
8/5/2022 3:26:00 PM
China on Friday said it is canceling or suspending dialogue with the United States on a range of issues from climate change to military relations and anti-drug efforts in retaliation for a visit this week to Taiwan by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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Egypt
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Health
8/2/2022 2:59:16 PM
Egypt is one step closer to exporting homemade COVID-19 vaccines after the World Health Organisation (WHO) rated the Egyptian Drug Authority (EDA) maturity level three (ML-3), its second highest rating, according to the WHO’s Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO).
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World
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International
7/30/2022 9:08:37 PM
President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 again Saturday, slightly more than three days after he was cleared to exit coronavirus isolation, the White House said, in a rare case of ``rebound'' following treatment with an anti-viral drug.
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Egypt
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Health
7/26/2022 10:26:59 PM
Presidential Health Adviser Awad Tag El-Din announced that the COVID-19 drug Molnupiravir will be publicly available in pharmacies in Egypt starting Wednesday for the price of EGP 420.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/25/2022 9:56:42 AM
The European Commission has approved a smallpox vaccine for use against monkeypox after the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a global health emergency, the Danish drugmaker that developed the jab said on Monday.
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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
7/16/2022 8:17:03 PM
As Mexican marines closed in on infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero deep in the mountains of his native state of Sinaloa, it was a 6-year-old bloodhound named ``Max'' who rousted from the undergrowth the man allegedly responsible for the murder of a U.S. DEA agent more than three decades ago.
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World
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Region
7/4/2022 12:18:36 PM
The U.S. Navy's Mideast-based 5th Fleet is starting to offer rewards for information that could help sailors intercept weapons, drugs and other illicit shipments across the region amid tensions over Iran's nuclear program and Tehran's arming of Yemen's Houthi rebels.
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