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Dubai has been selected as the host city for the 38th edition of the World Congress of Sports Medicine in 2024 by the International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS). The announcement follows the UAE’s successful participation in the 37th edition
In a surprise return of cholera to Haiti, officials reported on Sunday that at least seven people had died as a result of it. During a 2010 outbreak, 10,000 people died as a result of the disease, which was blamed
For his discoveries on human evolution, Swedish scientist Svante Paabo received this year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize winner was announced Monday at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, by Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Nobel
Germany’s health minister has warned that the country is seeing an increase in COVID-19 cases as the fall season begins, and urged older people to have a second booster shot that is tweaked to protect against new variants of the
The shares of Biogen and other drugmakers researching Alzheimer’s disease surged Wednesday after Japan’s Eisai Co. Ltd.. reported its potential treatment appeared to slow the disease in a late-stage study. Lecanemab, the drugmaker’s treatment, reduced patients’ clinical decline by 27%
Health ministry figures show that the estimated costs of medical services in Japan in fiscal year 2021 rose 4.6 percent from the previous year to a record high of 44.2 trillion yen, due to a surge in Coronavirus-related expenses, as
As countries try to bolster their immunization programs ahead of the winter, the European Medicines Agency has recommended that a tweaked booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Coronavirus vaccine be authorized that also provides protection against two of the latest versions
There is evidence that regular consumption of sufficient amounts of vegetables and fruits rich in dietary fiber and vitamins can reduce the risk of dying by nearly 10 percent according to a report published on the website of the National
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced it will launch a $1.5 billion campaign to eliminate outbreaks of bacterial meningitis across Africa by 2030. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 50 million children in Africa have not
Globally, there were about 12 percent fewer cases of COVID-19 last week, according to the latest report from the World Health Organization on its weekly review. United Nations said there were 4.2 million cases of infections last week, while there