As many as 875,000 children in Afghanistan are at risk of severe wasting, the United Nations agency for children said on Tuesday. Sam Mort, chief of...
Health officials in Herat province say a three-story Hematology Hospital will be built in the province to treat patients with blood disorders including leukemia. Mohammad Asif...
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Saturday rolled out a nationwide measles vaccination campaign and hopes to reach at least...
With the arrival of the cold season in the country, the World Health Organization (WHO) says that it has sent more than 690 metric tons of...
Bayat Foundation has established a new unit in the Jamhuriat Hospital where children with cancer will be treated. This health center is a state-owned hospital which...
Chinese software developer Tang Huajun loves playing with his two-year-old in their apartment on the outskirts of Beijing but he said he is unlikely to have...
The Public Health Department of Samangan province reports an increase in the number of Leishmania cases in the province. Ghulam Mahyuddin, the head of Leishmania health...
The Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) says 54 children suffering from heart disease, burns and orthopedic problems have been sent to Germany for treatment after their...
An ovarian tumor weighing over 70 kg was successfully removed during emergency surgery at a hospital in Italy recently after the female patient started having breathing...
Afghan doctors have successfully carried out an esophagectomy on a patient in Kabul who has been unable to swallow food for about six years nor drink...
The number of dangerously malnourished children admitted to Save the Children’s mobile health clinics in Afghanistan has increased by 47% since January this year, with some...
The Ministry of Public Health says that so far this year only two cases of polio have been reported in Afghanistan – one in Kunar and...
Indonesia has halted sales of medicinal syrup after 99 children died of acute kidney injuries this year. The ban will remain until the health ministry completes...
A four-day polio vaccination campaign started in Afghanistan’s 22 provinces including Kabul on Monday, the Ministry of Public Health said. Around six million children under the...
Seventy children have died in Gambia from acute kidney injury, thought to be linked to Indian-made cough syrups, Reuters reported. The syrups were found to be...
The deaths of dozens of young children in Gambia from acute kidney injuries may be linked to contaminated cough and cold syrups made by an Indian...
Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paabo, who sequenced the genome of the Neanderthal and discovered the previously unknown hominin Denisova, on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize. Paabo’s...
Ugandan health authorities on Tuesday reported that a man who died a day earlier had tested positive for the virus that causes Ebola. They said it’s...
A nationwide polio vaccination campaign was launched in all provinces of the country on Monday, public health ministry officials said. The campaign will run for four...
The European Union’s Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation (ACCD) has contributed EUR 290,000 to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) fund for acutely malnourished children...
