Pfizer announced Saturday that tweaking its COVID-19 vaccine to better target the omicron variant is safe and works — just days before US regulators debate whether...
India’s ministry of health on Thursday reported they have seen a surge in COVID-19 cases in the country in the past 24 hours. According to the...
Women are far more likely than men to suffer from long COVID, a review, published Tuesday in the journal Current Medical Research and Opinion, stated. The...
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) public health ministry said 820,000 people, including mothers and children, have sought treatment for malnutrition so far this year. According...
Afghanistan’s Medicine Importers Union on Saturday urged the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to prevent pharmaceutical drugs from being smuggled into the country and assured the...
The Ministry of Public Health of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has rejected reports of positive cases of monkeypox in some provinces of Afghanistan, saying...
As many as 400 cholera cases have been confirmed in recent months in Afghanistan’s southern Zabul province, health officials said on Tuesday. Javed Hazhir, a spokesman...
Save the Children said Monday, in its latest report on Afghanistan, that 24.4 million people, including 13 million children, need humanitarian assistance and that over five...
More than one million children are expected to receive polio vaccinations in the fourth round of the current campaign which is set to start on Monday...
New York City on Monday raised its COVID alert level from low to medium, meaning some public health rules could be reimposed. The risk level was...
Iran’s Ministry of Health on Thursday recorded 17 COVID-19 deaths and 969 new infections taking the country’s total fatalities to 141,058 and total caseload to 7,220,402....
A three-member team of renowned medical experts from Pakistan visited Afghanistan to examine the performance of three leading hospitals built by Pakistan, its embassy in Kabul...
UNICEF Afghanistan said Sunday that in March it treated more than 35,700 children for severe acute malnutrition. “We aim to reach 1.1 million by the end...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF are holding a high-level meeting in Qatari capital Doha on interim priorities for the health sector in Afghanistan over...
Mainland China reported its first COVID deaths in over a year on Saturday, said a post on the National Health Commission’s website. The two deaths happened...
As many as eight children die each day from malnutrition at just one hospital in Kabul, a reliable source told Ariana News on Wednesday. According to...
Forty people have died from COVID-19 in Afghanistan in the past week, authorities said on Tuesday. The Ministry of Public Health, however, said that the peak...
Eight polio workers were killed in four separate attacks in Afghanistan’s northern provinces of Kunduz and Takhar on Thursday, a UN official has said. In Kunduz,...
In the last 45 days, more than four hundred people have died of pneumonia across the country, officials said adding that most of them were children....
US President Joe Biden said on Friday the US national emergency declared in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic will be extended beyond March 1...