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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
6/27/2022 5:06:49 PM
Minister of Transportation Kamel El-Wazir and Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Ghada Waly discussed on Monday frameworks of cooperation to meet the current global challenges in many fields, according to a statement by the ministry.
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Life & Style
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Health
6/26/2022 10:05:25 AM
Pfizer said it would extend until 2030 a drug donation programme aimed at eliminating trachoma, an eye disease responsible for blinding or visually impairing nearly two million people worldwide.
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World
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International
6/15/2022 10:57:02 PM
A panel of experts convened by the US Food and Drug Administration unanimously recommended Covid-19 vaccines Wednesday for children under five, the final age group awaiting immunization in most countries.
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World
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International
6/9/2022 1:30:03 PM
Thailand made it legal to cultivate and possess marijuana as of Thursday, like a dream come true for an aging generation of pot smokers who recall the kick delivered by the legendary Thai Stick variety.
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Egypt
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Health
6/5/2022 5:06:14 PM
Professor Raymond Schinazi, the inventor of the hepatitis C drug Sovaldi, spoke to Ahram Online about his collaboration with the Egyptian government over the past few years and the country’s unprecedented success in treating millions of hepatitis C patients.
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World
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Region
6/4/2022 5:08:09 PM
Iraqi security forces have said they forced down a microlight aircraft near the Kuwaiti border headed to the emirate from Iran with one million pills of the amphetamine-type stimulant captagon.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
6/1/2022 4:25:29 PM
Egypt has sent medical aid to a Sudanese children’s hospital in the country’s Red Sea State that includes drugs and medical supplies, a statement by the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday evening.
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World
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Africa
6/1/2022 1:59:19 PM
As health authorities in Europe and elsewhere roll out vaccines and drugs to stamp out the biggest monkeypox outbreak beyond Africa, some doctors acknowledge an ugly reality: The resources to slow the disease's spread have long been available, just not to the Africans who have dealt with it for decades.
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Life & Style
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Health
5/28/2022 2:46:05 PM
The World Health Organization says nearly 200 cases of monkeypox have been reported in more than 20 countries not usually known to have outbreaks of the unusual disease, but described the epidemic as ``containable'' and proposed creating a stockpile to equitably share the limited vaccines and drugs available worldwide.
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Egypt
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Health
5/26/2022 12:07:08 PM
Egypt has contacted a number of companies to obtain raw materials required to manufacture the monkeypox drugs and to import PCR test kits to detect the virus, Acting Minister of Health Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar said on Wednesday.
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Life & Style
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Health
5/25/2022 4:47:13 PM
In an exclusive interview with Sarah Ibrahim — associate director for Global Generic Drug Affairs at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the first Egyptian-American in such a leading position — Ahram Online discussed Ibrahim’s journey from Cairo University to her current position.
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World
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Africa
5/25/2022 11:23:04 AM
Pfizer says it will provide nearly two dozen products, including its top-selling COVID-19 vaccine and treatment, at not-for-profit prices in Africa and some of the world's poorest countries.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
5/10/2022 9:04:05 PM
After a two-year ban on Egyptian weightlifters for drug abuse, their successors returned strongly at the 2022 Junior World Championships, reports Abeer Anwar
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World
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International
5/5/2022 4:19:22 PM
The European Union's drug watchdog said Thursday that it is assessing the possible use of Moderna's Covid vaccine for children aged five and under, the only group not yet eligible for the jab in most countries.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
4/27/2022 3:05:20 PM
Russia and the United States carried out a dramatic prisoner exchange on Wednesday, trading a Marine veteran jailed in Moscow for a convicted Russian drug trafficker serving a long prison sentence in America, a senior U.S. official and the Russian foreign ministry said.
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World
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International
4/26/2022 7:47:43 PM
President Joe Biden has granted the first three pardons of his term, providing clemency to a Kennedy-era Secret Service agent convicted of federal bribery charges that he tried to sell a copy of an agency file and to two people who were convicted on drug-related charges but went on to become pillars in their communities.
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World
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Region
4/20/2022 4:55:17 PM
Child vaccination rates in Lebanon have dropped by more than 30 percent, compounding a health crisis marked by drug shortages and an exodus of trained professionals, the United Nations said Wednesday.
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Life & Style
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Health
4/18/2022 11:27:14 PM
The Journal of Medicine and Life published a study by Egyptian researchers proving the superiority of the anti-HCV drug ‘Sofosbuvir (Sovaldi) – Ledipasvir’ in treating Egyptian patients with COVID-19 compared to the standard treatment.
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Egypt
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Society
4/10/2022 9:50:31 PM
Methamphetamine – known as “El Chapo” – is a highly addictive and destructive synthetic drug that is gaining public notice in Egypt for its role in fueling a series of horrifying murders over the past few years.
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Egypt
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Health
3/31/2022 2:15:57 PM
The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced Wednesday that Egypt’s medical products regulatory agencies had reached maturity level 3, which means that they were found to function well and that they could be eligible for inclusion into the transitional WHO Listed Authorities.
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