WASHINGTON – Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a bill banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, making Florida the latest state to restrict the medical procedure in most cases. House Bill 5, the Reducing Fetal and Infant Mortality Act, “protects babies in the womb who have beating hearts, who can move, who can taste,...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday announced the start of providing aid and medical intervention to around 18,000 Yemeni children suffering illnesses and malnutrition. In a statement, WHO said the aid intervention, which is carried out in eight hospitals over a period of nine months, is implemented with support...
ISTANBUL – China has expressed disapproval of the US move to order its non-emergency workers and their family members to leave the COVID-19-hit Shanghai city. “China has lodged solemn representations with the US over its order to evacuate its consulate in Shanghai,” Zhao Lijian, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, told a news conference in Bei...
GENEVA – The World Health Organization has said it has verified 91 attacks on health facilities in Ukraine since the war began on February 24. Ukraine is living in “dark days,” WHO Europe chief Hans Kluge said in a briefing from Lviv, a city near the border with Poland in western Ukraine, on the 43rd […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tested positive for the coronavirus, her spokesman said Thursday. “After testing negative this week, Speaker Pelosi received a positive test result for COVID-19 and is currently asymptomatic. The Speaker is fully vaccinated and boosted, and is thankful for the r...
WASHINGTON – The US will end in late May a controversial pandemic-era program that had led to the rapid expulsions of nearly 2 million migrants and asylum seekers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced. Title 42 will be lifted on May 23, and the Biden administration will continue to enforce it until […]
WASHINGTON – The US House of Representatives again voted to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level on April 1, with a slim bipartisan majority voting in favor. In all, three Republicans joined the chamber’s Democrats in supporting the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, which cleared the House 220-204. The...
WASHINGTON- The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said that it authorized a second booster of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna coronavirus vaccines for older people. The agency said the second booster dose may be administered to individuals 50 years and older at least four months after getting the first booster dose of any approved [&hel...
On Thursday, a progressive coalition urged the Biden administration to exercise its power to make lifesaving medicines affordable. Advocates for The Make Meds Affordable campaign unveiled a roadmap for lowering drug prices. It outlines two executive authorities the federal government can invoke to end patent monopolies and lower drug prices. ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A team of Bangladeshi scientists on Wednesday claimed discovering a new cause for diabetes, calling it a breakthrough in the prevention and treatment of the disease. The researchers said deficiency of the intestinal alkaline phosphatase (IAP) enzyme is one of the leading causes of diabetes and people with IPA deficienc...
