ISTANBUL (AA) – US President Joe Biden on Sunday said “everybody should be concerned” about monkeypox. “They (health advisers) haven’t told me the level of exposure yet, but it is something that everybody should be concerned about. “We’re working on it hard to figure out what we do and what vaccine, if any, may be [&hel...
Pfizer’s new anti-COVID pill Paxlovid is helping stave off hospitalizations and deaths, a senior White House official said Wednesday. Demand for the treatment has soared amid the latest wave of infections in the U.S. There’s been a four-fold increase in demand over the past month and an estimated 20,000 prescriptions being written daily...
ANKARA – North Korea has reported over 232,000 more cases of “fever” and six related fatalities over the past day in a suspected COVID-19 outbreak. The figures were released by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). However, so far, North Korea has refused to link the rising cases with coronavirus-like symptoms to t...
COVID-19 cases have risen in four of the six World Health Organization regions in the last week, the WHO chief said Tuesday. Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said drops in testing and sequencing in many countries make it “increasingly difficult” to track the virus and how it’s mutating. He said North Korea announced its first outbreak of [&...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The Belgian government tried to send nearly expired medicines from its strategic stockpile to Ukraine as humanitarian aid, local media reported on Wednesday. According to an investigation by the Het Laatste Nieuws (HLN) newspaper, the €3.4 million ($3.6 million) worth of humanitarian aid that the Belgian federal governmen...
GENEVA (AA) – Over the last week, COVID-19 cases have risen in four of the six World Health Organization regions, the WHO chief said Tuesday, airing concern about the increasing difficulty in learning how the virus is mutating, along with the need for more information from North Korea. WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said that du...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Doctors in Saudi Arabia have successfully separated Yemeni conjoined twins after a “complicated” 15-hour operation. The baby boys, Yussef and Yassin, were “conjoined in several organs”, and some 24 doctors were involved in the operation to separate them. Yemen has been wrecked by a brutal se...
ISTANBUL (AA/AFP) – Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz left the hospital one week after completing his treatment plan, a Saudi Royal Court statement said on Sunday. The king, 86, was “discharged today … from King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah after having successfully conducted medical tests and completed the prescribed treatment pla...
ANKARA (AA) – The more than two-year COVID-19 pandemic in the US has so far claimed one million lives, said President Joe Biden on Thursday. The country “marks a tragic milestone and each was an irreplaceable loss,” Biden said in a statement. Each life lost left behind “a family, a community, and a nation forever […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US hit a record-breaking number of drug overdose deaths last year, according to preliminary data by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on Wednesday. The CDC’s provisional estimate of 107,622 overdose deaths represents a dramatic 15% increase from the previous record set in 2020. In a...
