Pope Francis hits 3-week mark of hospitalization after giving world a sign of his frailty
Pope Francis has hit the three-week mark in his hospitalization for double pneumonia
Pope Francis has hit the three-week mark in his hospitalization for double pneumonia
Friday marks three weeks since Pope Francis was hospitalized for bronchitis, which then led to double pneumonia
Vatican officials said that Pope Francis had developed pneumonia in both lungs, further complicating the pontiff’s recovery
Vatican authorities said Monday that Pope Francis has a complex infection in his respiratory system and will require more targeted drug treatment
The Vatican says Pope Francis’ respiratory tract infection is presenting a “complex clinical picture” that will require further hospitalization
The head of the U.N. AIDS agency says the number of new HIV infections could jump more than six times by 2029 if American support of the biggest AIDS program is dropped
The World Health Organization chief is asking global leaders to lean on Washington to reverse President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the U.N. health agency
President Donald Trump has used one of the flurry of executive actions that he issued on his first day back in the White House to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization for the second time in less than five years
Police in Canada say they will not pursue a criminal investigation into a recent case in which a doctor sterilized an Inuit woman without her consent
Authorities in one province of Pakistan are turning to a controversial new tactic in the decades-long initiative to wipe out polio: prison
The World Health Organization has authorized a second malaria vaccine in a decision that could offer countries a cheaper and a more readily available option than the world’s first shot against the parasitic disease
Internal documents obtained by The Associated Press show that the World Health Organization has paid $250 each to at least 104 women in Congo who say they were sexually abused or exploited by Ebola outbreak responders
A day after Palestinian authorities called for an evacuation of Gaza’s biggest hospital, Israeli soldiers have raided it and say they were accompanied by medical teams bringing baby food, incubators and other equipment
Britain’s medicines regulator has authorized the world’s first gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease, in a move that could offer relief to thousands of people with the crippling illness in the U.K. In a statement on Thursday, the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency said it had approved Casgevy, the first medicine licensed using the gene editing tool CRISPR, which won its makers a Nobel prize in 2020
The World Health Organization says it has made an official request to China for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children
In a series of moves experts say signal a shift in how developing countries deal with pharmaceuticals, South Africa, Colombia and others have recently adopted a more combative approach towards drugmakers, pushing back on policies that deny treatment to millions of people with tuberculosis and HIV
The World Health Organization said it has confirmed sexual transmission of mpox in Congo for the first time as the country experiences its biggest-ever outbreak
A South African company will make vaginal rings that protect against HIV, which AIDS experts say should eventually make them cheaper and more readily available
African scientists warn that discrimination against gay and bisexual men on the continent could make an mpox outbreak in Congo worse
Whales sing loud enough that the sound travels through the ocean
More than 20 countries across Africa have loosened restrictions on abortion in recent years, but experts say many women probably don’t realize they are entitled to a legal abortion
Scientists say a new form of mpox detected in a mining town in Congo might more easily spread among people
Scientists studying the sperm whales that live around the Caribbean island of Dominica have described for the first time the basic elements of how they might be talking to each other, in an effort that could one day help better protect them
After the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders worldwide vowed to do better next time but are still struggling to finalize a global plan
A global treaty to fight pandemics like COVID is going to have to wait: After more than two years of negotiations, rich and poor countries have failed to come up with a plan for how the world might respond to the next pandemic
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