The World Health Organization is issuing new guidelines on improving global air quality, which it says could save many of the seven million lives that are lost each year to pollution.WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says inhaling dirty a…
Ms Sisomboun Ounavong, Director General, Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) and Convener of the NIPN Secretariate, Mr. Vincent Vire, the Head of Cooperation of the European Union Delegation to the Lao PD…
The delta variant of the coronavirus has overtaken all other variants of concern, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.”Less than 1% each of alpha, beta and gamma are currently circulating. It’s really predominantly delta around the world,” said …
Fast-food giant McDonald’s said Tuesday it would phase out plastic toys from its signature Happy Meals by 2025.”Starting now, and phased in across the globe by the end of 2025, our ambition is that every toy sold in a Happy
The Pfizer and BioNTech drug companies said Monday that lower dose shots of their two-dose COVID-19 vaccine are safe and effective for five-to-11-year-old children.The U.S. company and its German partner BioNTech said trials showed the vaccine was well…
Within 40 years, more than 800,000 Australians — twice as many as now — will be living with dementia, unless a cure is found, according to a new government-sponsored report.Dementia is the second leading cause of death in Australia.A new
There is growing optimism that India could resume exports of COVID-19 vaccines as production expands at a rapid pace, putting the country on track to immunize its adult population in the coming months“We had put a target of 1.85 billion
A report in The Guardian says U.S. physicians treating unvaccinated patients are “succumbing to compassion fatigue” as a fourth surge of COVID-19 cases sweeps across the country.Dr. Michelle Shu, a 29-year-old emergency medicine resident, said medical …
