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Pandemic talks extended as deadline passes
Countries trying to strike a landmark global agreement on handling future pandemics decided to keep negotiating for another fortni...
French, US drug firms team up for Covid-flu shot
French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi and struggling US rival Novavax announced Friday an alliance to sell a Covid vaccine and develo...
Low-cost MRI paired with AI produces high-quality...
A magnetic resonance imaging device built with off-the-shelf parts and paired with AI matched the performance of high-end MRI mach...
Romania opens first crowd-funded hospital
At Romania's new crowd-funded children's cancer hospital, one-year-old Eric Ivan eagerly walked up and down the corridor, his moth...
Flood-hit Kenya reports dozens of cholera cases
The United Nations voiced concern on Wednesday after dozens of cases of cholera were reported in flood-stricken Kenya as the death...
Chinese mill blamed for turning Serbia village red...
In the eight years since Chinese company HBIS bought a steel mill near the eastern Serbian city of Smederevo, locals say they have...
'Get this done', WHO chief tells pandemic accord t...
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday told countries negotiating a global agreement on handling future pandemics to "get...
Uruguay's leftist icon Jose Mujica has cancer: doc...
Uruguay’s leftist ex-leader Jose Mujica, once known as the world's "poorest president" for giving away most of his salary and driv...
Halle Berry confronts stigma around menopause
Academy Award-winning actress Halle Berry joined a group of US senators on Thursday to announce new legislation that would provide...
Unique venues heat up sauna scene in Sweden and Fi...
Deep underground in a disused iron mine and under the bluish glow of a flashlight, a small crowd emerges from a sauna, steam risin...
US to reclassify cannabis as low-risk drug, in maj...
US President Joe Biden's administration is set to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a source said Tuesday -- a histor...
US panel recommends all women receive breast cance...
Women should get screened for breast cancer every other year starting from the age of 40 to reduce their risk of dying from the di...
Philips settles US sleep machine cases for $1.1 bi...
Dutch medical device maker Philips said Monday it had reached a $1.1 billion deal to settle US lawsuits over faulty sleep machines...
Last chance for global pandemic agreement talks
Countries returned to the negotiating table Monday for one last push to conclude an international agreement on how to handle futur...
Last chance for pandemic agreement talks
Countries return to the negotiating table on Monday for one last push on concluding a pandemic agreement, now in slimmed-down form...
Biden stalls on menthol cigarette ban fearing Blac...
President Joe Biden's government on Friday said it was taking more time to consider a ban on menthol cigarettes, amid fears it cou...
US approves gene therapy treatment for hemophilia
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has received US approval for a gene therapy against a form of hemophilia, a rare and inherited blood c...
Nestle sales slump on weak North America demand fo...
Swiss food giant Nestle reported slimmer sales than expected in the first quarter on Thursday, weighed down by weak demand for fro...
French national library quarantines 'poisonous' bo...
France's national library said Thursday it had removed four 19th-century books from its shelves whose emerald green covers were li...
France records growing number of supercentenarians
The number of people in France living beyond 110 years is growing fast, the national demographic studies institute said Wednesday,...
Thai trans people push to be 'truly' accepted
Stethoscope over her white coat, Thai doctor Kachisarah Sridakhot walks hospital corridors hoping to beat a path for other trans w...
Biden admin issues rule protecting abortion privac...
President Joe Biden's administration announced a new rule Monday to protect the privacy of women who go out of their home state to...
Belgian whose body brews alcohol beats drink-drivi...
A Belgian man with a very rare metabolic condition that causes his body to produce alcohol had a drink-driving charge against him...
Japan doctors sue Google Maps over 'punching bag'...
Around 60 doctors in Japan have accused Google Maps of ignoring vitriolic reviews of their clinics in a class-action lawsuit toute...
UK parliament debates law phasing out smoking
The UK parliament on Tuesday kicked off its first debate on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's planned flagship legislation to prevent y...
Big money flows to US charities fueling vaccine mi...
An anti-vaccine group founded by US presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy Jr raised millions of dollars during the coronavirus...
Waste not want not: Peruvian drive to feed more wi...
Peruvian cook Isabel Santos prepares a salad with carrot peels and pea shells at a community kitchen in Lima; a disciple of a sust...
Ballet star and survivor Steven McRae says dance m...
After an almost super-human recovery from an injury, star dancer Steven McRae says the ballet world must take much better care of...
Israel urges Iran sanctions as world warns against...
World powers urged restraint on Sunday for fear that Iran's unprecedented missile and drone strikes on Israel could spark a wider...
World urges restraint after Iran's unprecedented a...
World leaders urged restraint on Sunday after Iran launched an unprecedented wave of missiles and attack drones against its arch f...
Iran warns of 'stronger response' if Israel retali...
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi warned on Sunday against any "reckless" Israeli retaliation to Tehran's unprecedented missile and...
Israel says Iran attack 'foiled' amid fears of wid...
Iran's unprecedented overnight attack on Israel has been "foiled", the Israeli military said Sunday, with hundreds of missiles and...