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Federal appeals court has preserved access to an abortion drug for now but under tighter rules that would allow the drug only to be dispensed up to seven weeks, not 10, and not by mail. The drug, mifepristone, was approved for use by the…

The World Health Organisation(WHO) has warned Nigeria and other countries to prepare for the flu pandemic by increasing budgetary allocation to health and improving the primary healthcare system. The WHO Representative in Nigeria, Dr…

Ghana is the first country to approve a new malaria vaccine that has been described as a "world-changer" by the scientists who developed it. The vaccine - called R21 - appears to be hugely effective, in stark contrast to previous…

China is not participating in United Nations project to survey Asian wet markets and other facilities at high risk of spreading infectious diseases from wild animals to humans, despite long-running talks with Beijing. China's hesitancy…

A non-governmental organisation, under the auspices of Mission to Save The Helpless, said it had executed over 1,400 mass hydrocelectomy for hydrocele cases arising from lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis in six states across…

United States national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic ended Monday as President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan congressional resolution to bring it to a close after three years - weeks before it was set to expire alongside a…

Junior doctors across England have begun a four-day walkout and it is expected to be the most disruptive in NHS history. More than a quarter of a million appointments and operations could be cancelled, and some hospitals say up to half…

Johnson & Johnson’s second attempt to resolve talc lawsuits in bankruptcy should be dismissed as an unprecedented fraud designed to deny plaintiffs compensation, lawyers representing cancer victims argued. The attorneys contend…

United State government is spending over $5 billion on an effort to speed up the development of new COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) spokesperson and a Biden administration official said.…

A United States judge in Texas has suspended the two-decade-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone while a legal challenge proceeds, dealing another setback to abortion rights in the United States. Adding to the volatile legal…