A traveller wears a mask at the Dubai International Airport, after the UAE’s Ministry of Health and Community Prevention confirmed the country’s first case of coronavirus, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates January 29, 2020. REUTERS/Christopher Pike A family from China’s central city of Wuhan staying in the United Arab Emirates has been diagnosed with the

A medical official takes the body temperature of a man at the departure hall of the airport in Changsha, Hunan Province, as the country is hit by an outbreak of a new coronavirus, China, January 27, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Peter The death toll from a coronavirus outbreak in China rose to 81 on Monday, as the

Canada on Saturday declared the first “presumptive” confirmed case of the deadly coronavirus in a resident who had returned from the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak of the viral disease. Ontario health officials told a news conference the patient is a male in his 50s, who arrived in Toronto on

Photo Credit Birmingham Mail Orthopaedic surgeon Habib Rahman More than 200 patients who were treated by consultant orthopaedic surgeon Habib Rahman at the Spire Parkway hospital in Solihull have been contacted about the concerns Hundreds of patients have been recalled after concerns were raised that a Solihull medic had been performing unnecessary operations at a

A traveler wears a facemask as she stands near the Beijing Railway Station in Beijing, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. A second person has died from a new form of coronavirus in central China, health authorities said late Thursday. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) By Alex Woodward CDC deploys 100 workers to check passengers coming from Wuhan into

This Dec. 12, 2019, photo shows a sign at the Mundipharma International headquarters at Cambridge Science Park in England. Mundipharma is the international affiliate of Purdue Pharma, the maker of the blockbuster painkiller OxyContin. Mundipharma is now marketing Nyxoid, a new brand of naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal medication. (AP Photo/Leila Coker) The gleaming white

From left, Mary Blitzer of the Sierra Club gives a petition of over 23,000 signatures to Amira Adawe of the BeautyWell Project as they deliver it to the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Shakopee on Wednesday. The two nonprofit groups launched a campaign for Amazon and eBay to stop selling toxic skin-lightening creams that contain mercury.

Photo/Daily Nation/Fire at the Mombasa Hospital on Tuesday night, November 12, 2019. Fire which broke out at the Mombasa Hospital in Mombasa Tuesday evening has been contained. Coast regional police boss Rashid Yakub says the inferno started from the hospital’s kitchen after a gas cylinder exploded. There was panic at the Mombasa Hospital after the

Due to failure of proper vaccination, Pneumonia cases seem to be on the rise in five countries including India. By Rajesh Kumar Thakur According to the report, India ranked second with 1.27 lakh children succumbing to pneumonia in 2018 following Nigeria, which was on top with 1.67 lakh fatalities. PATNA: India remains behind Pakistan, Bangladesh

Post-partum haemorrage is responsible for 40% of maternal deaths (Photo by Pixabay from Pexels) Poor quality oxytocin, a drug used to stop excessive bleeding in pregnant women, has been linked to high maternal mortality. Excessive bleeding or post-partum haemorrhage (PPH) is responsible for 40 per cent of maternal deaths (two in every five deaths) in