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Each year around the globe, 45 million children under the age of five experience wasting, which is very low body weight relative to height as a result of muscle and fat loss. Of these, 13.6 million have severe wasting, which puts them at an 11-fold risk of dying from infectious…

From home remedies to a GP-approved herbal remedy, this is how doctors suggest dealing with colds

Hopes are mounting that dozens of hostages seized by Hamas could be released from the Gaza Strip, after the group's leader and key mediator Qatar both said a truce agreement with Israel was within reach.

After more than a month of being subjected to sustained bombing, the besieged people of the Gaza Strip are now confronted with another threat to life: disease.

The approval of two malaria vaccines – the RTS,S/AS01 vaccine in 2021 and the R21/Matrix-MTM vaccine in 2023 – will help control, and eventually help eradicate, a disease that causes more than 600,000 deaths annually. Nearly 2 million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have been vaccinated with the RTS,S/AS01…

Gaza official says occupancy rate in hospitals in the region has reached 190 percent as they overflow with wounded.

Gaza health ministry says Israeli forces are ‘laying siege’ to hospital and fear repeat of events at al-Shifa

Tuesday's virtual meeting will be hosted by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the hope of drawing up a common response to the Israel - Hamas conflict, now entering its seventh week.

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