Healthcare

COVID caused brain damage in 2 infants infected during pregnancy -US...
April 07, 2023 03:20 AM AEST | By ReutersBy Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Researchers at the University of Miami reported on Thursday what they believe are the first two confirmed cas...

Brazil meat industry lobby laments Lula's absence from China trip -s...
March 30, 2023 10:14 AM AEDT | By ReutersBy Nayara Figueiredo SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's inability to accompany a government mission to China frustr...

WHO revises COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for Omicron-era
March 29, 2023 01:53 AM AEDT | By Reuters(Reuters) - The World Health Organization has tailored its COVID-19 vaccination recommendations for a new phase of the pandemic, suggesting that healt...

US colleges face loss of racial diversity if race-conscious admissio...
March 28, 2023 03:08 PM AEDT | By ReutersBy Gabriella Borter (Reuters) - If the U.S. Supreme Court bans the consideration of race in college admissions, enrollment of minority groups at selec...

World Bank approves new Costa Rican loan for natural disasters
March 24, 2023 11:09 AM AEDT | By ReutersSAN JOSE (Reuters) - The World Bank approved a $160 million loan for Costa Rica on Thursday aimed at strengthening its ability to manage risks linked...

Malawians fear storm Freddy could make deadliest cholera outbreak wo...
March 18, 2023 03:54 AM AEDT | By ReutersBy Eldson Chagara BLANTYRE (Reuters) - Despite her fears, Fyness Afiki joined other women drawing dirty water from a well in Malawi's second-biggest c...

Burundi declares poliovirus outbreak, WHO says
March 17, 2023 09:49 PM AEDT | By ReutersJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Health officials in Burundi on Friday declared an outbreak of circulating poliovirus after confirming eight cases, the first s...

Exodus of healthcare workers from poor countries worsening, WHO says
March 14, 2023 11:37 PM AEDT | By ReutersBy Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - Poorer countries are increasingly losing healthcare workers to wealthier ones as the latter seek to shore up their ow...

FDA mandates breast density information with mammography results
March 10, 2023 03:39 AM AEDT | By Reuters(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday all mammography facilities in the country will be required to notify patients about...

Medecins Sans Frontieres shuts Haiti hospital amid gang violence
March 09, 2023 08:12 AM AEDT | By ReutersPORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has temporarily closed its hospital in Cite Soleil, in Haiti's capital, afte...

Brazil to ask China to revise mad cow disease sanitary protocol
March 08, 2023 08:17 AM AEDT | By ReutersBRASILIA (Reuters) - The Brazilian government expects to resume beef exports to China in the next few days and is planning to request a revision of th...

Young Afghan women train as midwives for out-of-reach villages
March 07, 2023 09:41 PM AEDT | By ReutersBy Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Charlotte Greenfield FOLADI VALLEY, Afghanistan (Reuters) - In a small village circled by velvety white snow-topped mounta...

Europe will lose out on medical innovation if draft EU reforms pass,...
March 03, 2023 10:00 AM AEDT | By ReutersBy Maggie Fick LONDON (Reuters) - Europe will lose out to countries like the U.S. and Japan on new medical research, trials and treatments unless draf...

Court revives challenge to New York law protecting workers who get a...
February 28, 2023 03:53 AM AEDT | By ReutersBy Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Monday revived an anti-abortion crisis pregnancy center's challenge to a New York state law tha...

Fleeing drought, Somalis face malnutrition and cholera in Kenya
February 27, 2023 02:11 PM AEDT | By ReutersBy Ayenat Mersie DADAAB, Kenya (Reuters) - When her three-month-old baby fell sick from malnutrition, Dool Abdirahman Ismael left her village in Somal...

Viruses in Cambodian bird flu cases identified as endemic clade
February 27, 2023 02:52 AM AEDT | By Reuters(Reuters) - The viruses that infected two people in Cambodia with H5N1 avian influenza have been identified as an endemic clade of bird flu circulatin...

U.N. to expand quake aid into NW Syria, but further scale-up needed...
February 24, 2023 02:01 AM AEDT | By ReutersBy Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - The United Nations will scale up aid deliveries to Syria's rebel-held northwest in coming days to help millio...

Thailand heads into polls with burning cannabis issue in limbo
February 23, 2023 10:19 PM AEDT | By ReutersBy Panarat Thepgumpanat and Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand is heading into election season with its key cannabis legislation in limbo, g...

Bird flu kills sea lions and thousands of pelicans in Peru's protect...
February 22, 2023 06:21 AM AEDT | By Reuters(Reuters) - Bird flu has killed tens of thousands of birds, mostly pelicans, and at least 716 sea lions in protected areas across Peru, the authoritie...

Quake deals new blow to Syrian medics after years of war
February 22, 2023 02:00 AM AEDT | By ReutersBy Khalil Ashawi AL-DANA, Syria (Reuters) - As a nurse working near the frontlines of the Syrian war, Ibrahim Zeidan endured many desperate moments in...
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