This year’s Charity Preview had higher attendance than in 2023, but raised fewer funds. The event, headlined by hip-hop artist Flo Rida, saw 7,000 attendees and $1.7 million raised, according to a ...

RSV, respiratory syncytial virus, usually peaks in December and January while infecting the nose, throat and lungs, usually ...

The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a fatality rate of 50% but remains poorly understood in terms of how it infects cells. Currently, no approved treatments exist. To address this critical ...

October 12, 2020, Paper; "The SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) pandemic is the greatest threat to prosperity ... those associated with conventional recessions and the Iraq ...

Iraq’s parliament passed three divisive laws on Tuesday, including amendments to the country’s personal status law that opponents say would in effect legalise child marriage. The amendments give ...

With the acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic fading even as the coronavirus persists and evolves, a new normal is taking shape around the world. Experts expect cases to rise again this winter.

This fire mounts further pressure on the government as it struggles with crumbling infrastructure, economic crisis and the coronavirus pandemic. Iraq is currently battling a resurgence of the ...

Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from ...

Highly contagious, and with no effective treatments or vaccine, it soon expanded into a global pandemic. In the United States, we have had more than 99 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 to date ...

While most countries in Asia have now dropped Covid-19 entry requirements, as of August 2023, mainland China, Myanmar and Iran are holding out. Here are their respective rules. Philippines ...

Thousands of health workers, police and local officials across the UK will take part in a massive nationwide exercise to prepare for another Covid-style pandemic. And 87 million phones will get a ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday mounted a robust defense of the Biden administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that its stimulus spending led to robust ...