Health & Wellness
Consecutive drop in new COVID-19 cases ‘encouraging news’: WHO
The number of new COVID-19 cases globally has fallen for the third week in a row, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Monday,...
WHO urges effective and fair use of COVID vaccines
With COVID-19 vaccines currently in scarce supply, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday pressed governments to prioritize inoculation of health...
Top Dieting Advice For The Elderly
When caring for elderly people, it is important to make sure that they are getting all the vitamins and minerals that they need. But...
COVID-19’s Cost on Lung Cancer Progress- Report
A new report launched today at the Davos Agenda week is calling upon governments to focus urgent attention on restoring lung cancer diagnosis and...
New COVID-19 strains ‘poised to unleash’ more severe infections
Since September, the devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic has deepened, infecting close to 100 million people, costing more than $3 trillion in lost...
Pandemic will not end for anyone, ‘until it ends for everyone’
The COVID-19 pandemic “will not end for anyone, until it ends for everyone”, an independent UN human rights expert said on Friday, advocating for...
WHO chief warns against ‘catastrophic moral failure’ in COVID-19 vaccine access
A “me-first approach” to COVID-19 vaccines on the part of some countries and manufacturers is putting equitable access to these lifesaving treatments at risk,...
UN agencies supporting mammoth India COVID-19 vaccine rollout
India has begun what is the world’s biggest COVID vaccination campaign so far, deploying hundreds of thousands of health workers, with the training and...
Independent panel finds critical early failings in COVID-19 response
The global system for pandemic alert and response is “not fit for purpose”, highlighting the need for a new framework in the wake of...
COVID-19 committee stresses need for equitable vaccine access, more data sharing
As COVID-19 cases spike in parts of Europe, Africa and the Americas, and new variants of the virus emerge in some countries, the head...