Mpox incidence and deaths are increasing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as the…
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Philippines Reports First Mpox Case This Year
The Philippines reported its first case of mpox this year on Monday, but the health authorities…
What We Know About The New Mpox Outbreak
The World Health Organization declared an mpox outbreak in Africa an emergency this week, and the…
Big Pharma Push Back On First Medicare Drug Price Cuts
Major pharmaceutical corporations reacted angrily to a landmark agreement announced Thursday to reduce the costs of…
WHO Calls For Cholera Vaccine Production Boost
On Thursday, the president of the World Health Organization asked for greater manufacture of cholera vaccinations,…
WHO Declares Mpox A Global Public Health Emergency
The World Health Organisation on Wednesday declared the mpox surge in Africa was now a global…
Africa’s CDC Declares Mpox A Public Health Emergency
The African Union’s health watchdog on Tuesday declared a public health emergency over the growing mpox…
Africa CDC Likely To Declare Mpox Health Emergency, Says Director
The African Union’s health watchdog said Thursday that it was “likely” to declare a public health…
Atlanta Girl, 7, Donates Summer Business Earnings to Her Birth Hospital
Julia Scott, a seven-year-old entrepreneur, spent the summer running a snow cone business in her Atlanta…
Miracle Baby From Alabama Turns One Year Old After Being Given a 1% Chance to Live
Tripp Abney, an African-American infant born at 21 weeks in Chickasaw, Alabama, just celebrated his first…
Black Woman With Sickle Cell Disease Defies Odds, Turns 80 Years Old
Meet Patricia McGill, an African American woman from Houston, Texas, who recently celebrated her 80th birthday…
Gambian Lawmakers Uphold Ban On Female Genital Mutilation
Gambian lawmakers voted on Monday to uphold a 2015 ban on female genital mutilation, rejecting a…
Decade Since Ebola, Sierra Leone Fights Another Deadly Fever
Ecologist James Koninga searches through the darkness of a small mud and thatch home in eastern…
Woman Becomes a Nurse at the Same Hospital Where She Was Once a Janitor
Jaines Andrades, an African American woman from Springfield, Massachusetts, who used to work as a janitor…
Sweden Sees Rise In Diabetes Among Young Children — Report
Diabetes diagnoses among children under the age of five have increased in recent years, according to…
Tattoos Could Trigger Rare Form Of Cancer, New Study Finds
Having a tattoo could increase your risk of developing a rare type of cancer by 21%,…
Georgia Grandmother Makes History, Becomes Registered Nurse at 69
Loretta Mack, a 69-year-old African American grandmother from Albany, Georgia, has fulfilled her lifetime aim of…
Meet Andrea Dalzell, the Black Woman Making History as a Nurse Despite Being Wheelchair Bound
Meet Andrea Dalzell, an African American lady from New York City who became a Registered Nurse…
Syrian First Lady Asma al-Assad Diagnosed With Leukaemia
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s wife, Asma, who recovered from breast cancer in 2019, has been diagnosed…
‘It Was God’ – Boby, 4, Miraculously Survives 19-hour Cardiac Arrest
Cartier McDaniel, a four-year-old from Denver, amazingly lived after his heart stopped for 19 hours. After…
New Jersey Mom Births in Maserati, Then Defends Dissertation from Hospital Hours Later
Tamiah Brevard-Rodriguez welcomed her son in the passenger seat of her wife’s Maserati before smoothly defending…