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Covid: Evusheld antibody protection ruled out for most vulnerable
August 12, 2022
The antibody injection had promised a protection boost to those with conditions such as blood cancer.
Monkeypox: Lack of vaccines pauses rollout in Brighton
August 11, 2022
Stocks of the vaccine run low in the UK, with a new batch not due to arrive until next month.
NHS IT supplier held to ransom by hackers
August 11, 2022
Its IT provider says it may take three or four weeks to fully recover from the cyber-attack.
Ambulance calls for most serious conditions hit record
August 11, 2022
Official figures from NHS England suggest high demand for emergency services and hospitals.
'I've been let down - I shouldn't have stage-4 cancer'
August 10, 2022
Caroline Boulton says there have been delays at every stage of her treatment for breast cancer.

Egyptian national regulatory authority reaches second highest level in WHO classification
August 1, 2022
Credit: Egyptian Drug Authority 1 August 2022 – The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that Egypt’s National Regulatory Authority (NRA) for […]
Statement by WHO’s Regional Director on COVID-19 and monkeypox
July 26, 2022
26 July 2022 – Good morning from WHO’s Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean in Cairo and welcome to this media […]
WHO and ECHO support of Sudan for COVID-19 helped scale up local response to further health ...
July 21, 2022
As part of the COVID-19 response, European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), is working with WHO to support […]
WHO delivers 18 trucks of medical supplies to northwest Syria through the Bab-al-Hawa border ...
July 21, 2022
21 July 2022 – The border crossing of Bab-al-Hawa saw another 18 trucks of medical supplies delivered by WHO cross […]
COVID-19 cases rising in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
July 21, 2022
Cairo, 21 July 2022 – Countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region have been reporting a continuous increase in the number of confirmed […]

Data privacy fears as GPs are sharing patient records on Word documents
August 12, 2022
Advanced, a major IT provider to the health service, spotted a ransomware attack against NHS England last Thursday.
Childhood obesity: Just half of six-year-olds get one hour of exercise each day
August 12, 2022
Researchers from the universities of Cambridge and Southampton found only 53 per cent got an hour of playing in the […]
Monkeypox vaccine manufacturer Bavarian Nordic says it OPPOSES plans to split jabs
August 12, 2022
The United States is now the first country in America to have logged 10,000 monkeypox cases - with 900 being […]
AI algorithm that detects brain defects could help cure hard-to-spot epilepsy, study suggests
August 12, 2022
A University College London team have developed an algorithm that was able to detect six in 10 patients with a […]
Doctors' reluctance to discuss anal sex is letting women down as they are 'unaware of the risks'
August 11, 2022
Writing in the British Medical Journal, two female NHS surgeons claimed anal intercourse is becoming more common among straight couples […]