Health

Geneva —  The World Health Organization warns that soaring rates of severe malnutrition, acute hunger, and deteriorating health conditions are threatening the lives and well-being of millions of people in South Sudan with the situation…

Nigeria’s former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has called for thorough investigation into the death of Greatness Olorunfemi, a victim of the notorious ‘one-chance’ operators in Abuja, the nation’s capital city. Ms Olorunfemi, a…

The snack aisle is seen during a tour of a new Amazon Go store in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, U.S., on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020.Chona Kasinger | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFor more than a century, frosted cornflakes have…

MEXICO CITY —  Nine years after a massive waste spill from a copper mine in the northern Mexican border state of Sonora, locals are still suffering from "alarming" levels of soil, air and water pollution, Mexico's Environment Department…

Nigeria’s former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has called for a thorough investigation into the death of Greatness Olorunfemi, a victim of the notorious ‘one-chance’ operators in Abuja, the nation’s capital city. Ms Olorunfemi,…

SYDNEY —  New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has tested positive for COVID-19 and will work remotely while isolating, his office said Sunday, just two weeks before a general election in which his Labour party is struggling. The…

Each time Clever Amada, a rice farmer in Bayelsa State, needs to use the mill, he travels to neighbouring Delta State, and sometimes as far as Ebonyi, to use private mills.That would not have been his fate had the plan by the…

WASHINGTON —  The Food and Drug Administration on Friday laid out a proposal to begin regulating laboratory medical tests, a multibillion-dollar industry that the agency says poses a growing risk to patients because of potentially…

RALEIGH, N.C. – A federal judge on Saturday blocked two portions of North Carolina's new abortion law from taking effect while a lawsuit continues. But nearly all of the restrictions approved by the legislature this year, including a…

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Abortion opponents in Ohio are at odds not only over how to frame their opposition to a reproductive rights initiative on the state's November ballot but also over their longer-term goals on how severely they would restrict…