More than 900 Hajj pilgrims died from heat-related causes, as temperatures in Makkah soared to 125-degree Fahrenheit. The heat has worsened Saudi Arabia’s summer conditions, and especially affected sick and elderly pilgrims, with Egyptians bearing a significant toll. One diplomat told news agency AFP that deaths among Egyptians had jumpe...
Sen. Bernie Sanders has praised the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) forthcoming rules to exclude medical debt from credit reports. He called the move “an important step in the right direction.” Sanders criticized the current system where families face evictions and wage garnishments due to medical debt, despite the health c...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP More than 8,000 children aged under five have been treated in the Gaza Strip for acute malnutrition since Israel launched its war on the region, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 28 of those children had died and a significant proportion of Gaza’s po...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Illinois-based DePaul University has fired an adjunct biology professor for offering students an optional lesson on the health impacts of the Gaza “genocide.” Protesters have been demonstrating Dr. Anne d’Aquino’s dismissal on campus in Chicago, and an appeals board unanimously ruled that her fir...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – With hundreds of patients awaiting help, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital is struggling to provide medical attention to the victims of a deadly Israeli attack in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. At least 274 people were killed and nearly 700 others injured in Israeli bombardment of the […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 1.5 million displaced individuals in the Gaza Strip have contracted infectious diseases due to absence of waste and sewage disposal facilities because of the Israeli war on the besieged enclave. In a statement, the media office reported: “1,477,748 Palestinian displaced individuals have contracted inf...
Despite the U.S. spending more than $4.4 trillion on health care in 2022, racial and ethnic minorities, particularly Muslim women, face significant disparities. According to a study on their interactions within the healthcare system, cultural and religious practices, such as the preference for female health care providers and the need for acco...
Three American members of medical missions have chosen to stay in Gaza until Israel permits replacement humanitarian workers. They are part of a group of 20 American and British medical workers from the European Hospital in Khan Younis, who are being evacuated from Gaza. Hindered by the closure of the Rafah border crossing, these workers [&h...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AA) – A young Nigerian has developed a drone to deliver medicine and medical supplies to patients in rural areas of the country’s impoverished northwest region. Jubrin Musa, a 25-year-old secondary school dropout in Nigeria’s city of Kano, said he began working on the project 12 years ago. “I couldn̵...
GENEVA (AA) – The World Health Organization has warned that the continued closure of the Rafah crossing and the lack of access to the Kerem Shalom crossing are “increasing the risk of shortages in medical supplies and preventing the rotation of emergency medical teams (EMTs) in Gaza.” “The last medical commodities enter...
