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DUBAI (Reuters) - The Sudanese army drove its rival Rapid Support Forces from most of Khartoum city, residents said on Wednesday, as the army chief toured the presidential palace and airport, marking a major military gain though the wider war looks far from over.
KUALA LUMPUR: The construction of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reached 45% completion and is projected to be fully completed by July 2026, says Deputy Health Minister Datuk Lukanisman Awang Sauni.
DUBAI/CAIRO (Reuters) -The Sudanese army seized full control of the presidential palace in downtown Khartoum on Friday, it said in a statement, in what would be a major gain in a two-year-old conflict with a rival armed group that has threatened to partition the country.
NEW DELHI: Medical experts have so far failed to trace the cause of death of 14 people, including children and women, due to some mysterious disease in the Badhal village in the border district of Rajouri.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry is planning to form a National Disease Control Centre to prepare the country in the event of a health crisis, according to the Health White Paper.
The unknown disease has left 79 dead and more than 300 infected in Democratic Republic of Congo since late October.
The Hanoi Centre for Disease Control has been tightening health checks at the Noi Bai International Airport amid Congo mysterious disease outbreak, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported.
PETALING JAYA: Do not dismiss pains and cramps during that time of the month, an obstetrician and gynaecologist has advised women.
GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.N. human rights expert voiced alarm on Monday at Greece's failure to identify and help victims of sex trafficking, saying the government may have missed hundreds of cases at a migrant centre on the island of Samos.
With the help of China, the Myanmar National Center of Disease Control (CDC) and Medical Training Center in Nay Pyi Taw will be completed by the last week of April and will be opened soon, health ministry official Than Naing Soe told Xinhua on Friday.
KOTA KINABALU: Wildlife researchers are hoping to learn more about zoonotic diseases following a macaque sampling operation conducted in Tawau.
MYAWADDY, Myanmar: Hundreds of exhausted young men lie in an open-sided detention centre in a seedy Myanmar border town, sweating through thick tropical heat by day and prey to clouds of mosquitoes by night.
ROME, March 5 (Xinhua) -- Italy's total consumption of antibiotics for systemic use increased in 2023, contributing to a rise in antimicrobial resistance, the National Health Institute (ISS) warned in a report on Wednesday.
HONG KONG: Hong Kong signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Singapore on preventing communicable diseases during a three-day visit of a Department of Health delegation.
Fudan University’s US$56mil facility in Shanghai comes as China pushes disruptive technology among ‘new quality productive forces’.
A WOMAN had a bizarre mishap during the Chinese New Year celebration when she mistook a firecracker for a sweet.
Assurance from National Health Commission comes amid fears of surging respiratory illness, with disease expert citing slowing trend.
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Sunday (Feb 2, 2025)
PHNOM PENH: The Communicable Disease Control Department (CDC) warns of a human metapneumovirus (hMPV) outbreak in China. hMPV causes symptoms like the common cold and Covid-19, with rising infections, especially among children, prompting public health caution.
The notion of how human well-being is intimately intertwined with environmental health is gaining traction globally, with scientists and the World Health Organisation (WHO) urging governments to take greater consideration of the nexus between the two.
