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Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

NOIDA: Three employees of a Noida-based pharmaceutical firm Marion Biotech, whose cough syrup is alleged to have led to the death of 18 children in Uzbekistan last year, were arrested on charges of manufacturing and sale of adulterated drugs, officials said.

The medical science community is now on high alert, with health authorities in the UK modelling scenarios for a bird flu pandemic in response to the threat

JAKARTA: Dinosaur-themed birthday decorations still hang on the walls of Safitri Puspa Rani's home, where the family celebrated their youngest son's birthday last year.

The medical science community is on high alert as health authorities across the world prepare for a pandemic

A 3M subsidiary claims that U.S. Defense Department records show that over 175,00 military members who allege the Maplewood-based company's earplugs were defective have normal hearing under key medical standards.

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday urged the international community to help earthquake-hit northwest Syria, on his first ever visit to opposition-held areas of the war-ravaged country. "The people of northwest Syria need the assistance of the international community to recover and rebuild," Tedros told reporters after…

Available funding and new border crossings were still not enough to help quake-hit citizens in Syria's battered northwest, the head of the WHO said on Wednesday, adding he was "disturbed and heartbroken" by a visit to the rebel-held region.

WASHINGTON: The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has assessed that a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan, China "likely" caused the Covid-19 pandemic, according to FBI director Christopher Wray.