President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders are joining forces to address the urgent need to reduce drug costs. Their joint effort aims to alleviate the financial burden on millions of Americans dependent on inhalers for conditions like asthma. The Biden administration’s progress in drug pricing aligns with public demands to curb phar...
Oncologists in the U.S. have raised concerns on the issue of using artificial intelligence in medical application, particularly in cancer treatment. A recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association says they are urging accountability of AI developers for potential medical application errors. The study surveyed 204 oncologist...
The United Nations children’s fund says at least 45 million children are facing severe food insecurity worsened by climate change in several eastern and southern African countries. UNICEF director for eastern and southern Africa Eva Kadilli said millions of people are living through multiple and often overlapping crises. These have been inte...
Illegal Jewish settlements and industrial zones in the occupied West Bank are causing severe environmental issues and affecting the lives of Palestinians. Data from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reveals that these settlements discharge more than nine billion gallons of untreated wastewater annually into Palestinian territorie...
A recent study in the British Medical Journal reveals that COVID-19 vaccines significantly decrease the likelihood of heart failure and blood clots following an infection with the virus. Previous research had highlighted the elevated risk of cardiac and thromboembolic complications post-infection. However, this latest study shows a significa...
Israeli forces stormed Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital, marking the fourth raid since October. The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that more than 80 people, including medical staff and evacuees, were detained. The Israeli military alleges that Palestine resistance fighters had regrouped inside the hospital. But the Palestinian Media Off...
United Nations, United States – AFP The number of children worldwide who died before age five reached a record low in 2022, the United Nations said in a report published Tuesday, as for the first time fewer than five million died. According to the estimate, 4.9 million children died before their fifth birthday in 2022, […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The accumulation of garbage and waste is threatening the health of Palestinians struggling to survive in difficult conditions in Gaza, which has been under intense attacks by Israel for months. Due to the lack of municipal services, pollution crisis caused by garbage and other waste has deepened in Gaza, which...
GENEVA (AA) – The World Health Organization has said that it led two life-saving missions to transfer 32 critical patients, including two children, from Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza on February 18-19. “The high-risk missions were conducted in close partnership with the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and the United Natio...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 150 patients are crammed in rooms and corridors of the Nasser Medical Complex in the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israeli occupation forces arrested 70 medical staff and refused to evacuate the patients for treatment in other hospitals, the Gaza Health Ministry said […]