Health

DUBAI: A specialised medical team at Dubai Hospital has performed the first successful surgery using the Da Vinci Xi Surgical Robot on a 22-year-old Emirati patient suffering from a blockage in the upper part of the ureter. The complaint made the patient suffer from enlarged kidneys and its complications. Dr. Yasser Ahmad Al Saeedi, Consultant, Robotic Surgeon and Head of …

BONN: The World Bank said on Wednesday it will make $30 billion available to help stem a food security crisis threatened by Russia’s war in Ukraine, which has cut off most grain exports from the two countries. The total will include $12 billion in new projects and over $18 billion funds from existing food and nutrition-related projects that have been …

The US Food and Drug Administration has authorized the use of a booster shot of Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11, the regulator said on Tuesday. The authorization makes everyone in the United States aged five and above eligible for booster doses of the vaccine, although the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday called for collective efforts to eradicate polio from the country, ARY News reported. Chairing a meeting of National Task Force on Polio Eradication in Islamabad, the prime minister assured the federal government would extend every possible assistance and cooperation in this regard. PM Shehbaz Sharif voiced his concerns over the detection of recent …

ISLAMABAD: Although the current heatwave sweeping across India and Pakistan was consistent with what experts have come to expect in a changing climate, the head of the global weather body has said that it was premature to attribute the extreme heat in South Asia solely to the phenomenon of climate change. “But heatwaves are more frequent and more intense and …

Online articles shared hundreds of thousands of times on social media claim the global outbreak of severe hepatitis in children is linked to Covid-19 vaccines, citing an April 2022 study as evidence. But health authorities and independent experts dismissed the idea that the shots are to blame, saying most of those affected were too young to be vaccinated and that …

ISLAMABAD: As three cases of polio have been reported after a gap of 15 months, the national polio programme has decided to launch a campaign across the country to boost the immunity level of 43.3 million children up to the age of five years. Moreover, considering a massive movement across the Afghan border, it has been decided to synchronise the …

SEOUL: North Korea on Sunday reported 15 additional deaths from “fever”, days after officially confirming its first-ever Covid-19 cases and ordering nationwide lockdowns. The outbreak, which leader Kim Jong Un has said is causing “great upheaval”, leaves a country with one of the world’s worst healthcare systems on the edge of potential disaster. North Korea has no Covid vaccines, antiviral …

KUALA LUMPUR: China will no longer host the 2023 Asian Cup finals due to the Covid-19 situation in the country, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) said on Saturday, with Beijing’s strict zero-Covid strategy dealing another blow to the country’s sporting ambitions. Authorities in China are pursuing a strategy of stamping out the virus entirely, which includes rapid lockdowns and mass …

SEOUL: North Korea announced 21 new “fever” deaths on Saturday and said more than half a million people had been sickened nationwide, two days after confirming its first cases of Covid-19. Despite activating its “maximum emergency quarantine system” to slow the spread of disease through its unvaccinated population, North Korea is now reporting tens of thousands of new cases daily. …