MEXICO CITY – Nine-year-old Alessia Ramos gently pets a hamster at a Mexican hospital where animals ranging from Australian parakeets to a Siberian Husky are being used to…
LONDON – The British government said on Tuesday it would close a loophole that lets retailers give free samples of vapes to children in a clampdown on e-cigarettes, whose…
Australia on Tuesday (May 2) proposed to tighten e-cigarette laws, including introducing new controls on import and packaging to stamp out vaping especially among kids, in the…
In a nod to the ongoing risk the coronavirus poses to millions of Americans, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended on Wednesday that adults 65 and…
KECSKEMET, Hungary – Inside a dark room at Bacs-Kiskun County Hospital outside Budapest, Dr Eva Ambrozay, a radiologist with more than two decades of experience, peered at a…
The monkeypox vaccine is highly effective, protecting people as early as two weeks after the first dose, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
NEW YORK – Some pharmacies are reporting shortages of Moderna’s new bivalent booster shot for Covid-19 as one factory used in producing the vaccine remains offline following a…
US officials on Wednesday authorised updated Covid-19 vaccinations by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech that specifically target the latest strains of the Omicron variant, hoping to…
WASHINGTON – The US Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday (Aug 9) certain samples of sitagliptin, a compound in Merck’s diabetes drugs Januvia and Janumet, were…
MARSABIT, KENYA – Under an acacia tree in Kenya’s drought-ravaged north, malnourished infants feed on sticky mouthfuls of a nutrient-dense peanut paste long used to prevent child…