Health

5 Super Foods to Better Your Brain Health

Photo: Credit Pexels You’d be surprised to know that the brain can generate about 23 watts of electricity when active! In fact, it is the most versatile organ and the foundation of support and stability. Therefore, to keep it running in top form, certain dietary changes are absolutely necessary. In addition, to help regulate the

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The Latest: Britain records more than 1,000 new infections

Photo: Credit Reuters/A general view of ambulances and staff outside the NHS Nightingale Hospital at the Excel Centre, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), London, Britain, May 5, 2020. REUTERS/John Sibley LONDON — Britain has recorded more than 1,000 new coronavirus infections in a day for the first time since late June. Government

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A Somali woman has given birth to quintuplets in Mogadishu

Photo: Credit Twitter Health workers who helped deliver the baby. Doctors, nurses celebrate after woman gives birth to five kids A woman in Somalia has delivered five children at once at the Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Hospital – The hospital announced the good news on Twitter on Monday, August 3, saying the woman and her five

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‘Losing battle’: Philippine doctors, nurses urge new COVID-19 lockdowns

Photo: Credit Reuters/ELOISA LOPEZ Outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Manila MANILA (Reuters) – More than a million Philippine doctors and nurses, saying the country was losing the fight against COVID-19, urged President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday to reimpose strict lockdown in and around Manila. In the largest call yet from medical experts to

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Kuwait emir, 91, flies to US for medical care after surgery

In this March 31, 2019 file photo, Kuwait’s ruling emir, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, attends the opening of the 30th Arab Summit, in Tunis, Tunisia. Kuwait said its 91-year-old ruling emir, who recently underwent surgery, will travel to the U.S. on Thursday for further medical care. That’s according to a report late Wednesday,

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Saudi Arabia’s King Salman admitted to hospital for tests

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has been admitted to a hospital in the capital, Riyadh, for medical tests due to inflammation of the gallbladder, the kingdom’s Royal Court said Monday in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency. The statement said the 84-year-old monarch is being tested at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital. The

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Iran estimates it has 25 million coronavirus infections

Iran’s president on Saturday estimated as many as 25 million Iranians could have been infected with the coronavirus since the outbreak’s beginning, as he urged the public to take the pandemic seriously, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. Hassan Rouhani cited a new Iranian Health Ministry study in offering the unprecedentedly high numbers. Rouhani also

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White House turns on Fauci as Trump minimizes virus spike

In this April 22, 2020 file photo, President Donald Trump watches as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) WASHINGTON (AP) — With U.S. virus cases spiking and the

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Virus cases up sharply in Africa, India as inequality stings

Covid-19 patients are being treated with oxygen at the Tshwane District Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday July 10, 2020. Health Minister Zweli Mkhize this week said South Africa could run out of available hospital beds within the month. “The storm that we have consistently warned South Africans about is now arriving,” he told lawmakers.

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UK unveils safety plan to reopen schools in September

Face masks to be compulsory inside shops in Scotland as country gears up for lockdown easing on July 10 The British government outlined its plan to fully reopen English schools in autumn as health authorities announced a further 89 deaths from coronavirus across the UK over the past 24 hours. The Department of Health reported.

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