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Life & Style
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Health
11/25/2023 11:21:48 AM
The United Nations heralded the forthcoming scale-up of malaria vaccination across Africa after the first shipment of doses arrived in Cameroon.
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Life & Style
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Health
10/29/2023 11:01:37 AM
Scientists in Brazil, the world's second-biggest consumer of cocaine, have announced the development of an innovative new treatment for addiction to the drug and its powerful derivative crack: a vaccine.
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World
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Africa
10/23/2023 10:30:55 PM
Three nurses care for a 10-year-old girl at a clinic treating dozens of patients in Kano, northern Nigeria, amid the country's worst diphtheria outbreak which has killed hundreds of people since the start of the year.
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Life & Style
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Health
10/2/2023 6:22:13 PM
The World Health Organization said Monday that its experts had recommended a second malaria vaccine for children, R21/Matrix-M, developed by Britain's Oxford University.
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World
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International
10/2/2023 1:19:15 PM
Katalin Kariko of Hungary and Drew Weissman of the United States won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for Covid-19 vaccines.
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Life & Style
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Health
8/31/2023 1:05:20 PM
A global Covid-19 knowledge-sharing platform has secured three new licensing agreements to transfer vaccine technologies, including one with the first private manufacturer to join the initiative, the World Health Organization said.
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Egypt
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Health
8/19/2023 8:14:56 PM
Minister of Health and Population Khaled Abdel Ghaffar called for further efforts to build a better future with fair access to medications and vaccines, particularly during the outbreak of pandemics, epidemics and other health crises.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/22/2023 11:10:16 AM
Europe's drug watchdog on Friday approved the world's first vaccine for infants against the Respiratory Syncytial Virus, a major cause of child hospitalisation on the continent, the Amsterdam-based agency said.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/5/2023 8:57:02 PM
Around 18 million doses of the first malaria vaccine will be delivered to 12 African countries by 2025, the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the Vaccine Alliance said Wednesday.
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Life & Style
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Health
6/26/2023 10:05:40 AM
After decades of limited success, scientists say research has reached a turning point, with many predicting more vaccines will be out in five years.
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World
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Region
5/9/2023 10:14:41 AM
Top U.N. officials, health industry leaders and activists demanded Monday that the world invest more to develop new vaccines and tackle a surge in tuberculosis fueled by the impact of COVID-19 and conflicts including Ukraine and Sudan.
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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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Sports
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Omni sports
5/2/2023 6:27:23 PM
Novak Djokovic will be free to play in this year's US Open after the United States government confirmed it is lifting its Covid-19 vaccine mandate on international travelers.
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World
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International
5/2/2023 6:19:55 PM
The Biden administration will end most of the remaining federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements next week, the White House said late on Monday.
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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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Egypt
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Health
3/26/2023 1:36:08 PM
Egypt announced on Sunday that they had received just over two million doses of Pfizer’s Omicron-adapted COVID-19 vaccine from eight countries over the past week.
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Egypt
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Health
3/26/2023 12:45:49 PM
Egypt's Minister of Health Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar opened the first production line of hepatitis B and pentavalent (five-in-one) vaccines, with the capacity to produce 100 million vaccines annually, as part of a collaboration between Egypt’s VACSERA and the Serum Institute of India, according to a statement released Saturday.
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Egypt
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Health
3/22/2023 12:08:31 PM
Egypt received a shipment of 685,440 doses of the adapted bivalent Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, the Ministry of Health and Population announced on Tuesday.
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Egypt
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Health
3/20/2023 2:11:10 PM
Egypt received the first shipment of the adapted bivalent Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19, said the Ministry of Health and Population on Sunday, adding that the cargo contained around 599,040 doses.
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Life & Style
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Health
3/11/2023 11:21:18 AM
On the third anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus is still spreading and the death toll is nearing 7 million worldwide. Yet most people have resumed their normal lives, thanks to a wall of immunity built from infections and vaccines.
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