カテゴリー: Health
Exclusive: Conditions inside Australia-funded Bomana centre prompted dozens to agree to return to country of originLeaked pictures from inside Papua New Guinea’s Bomana immigration detention centre have given a glimpse of where up to 20 asylum seekers …
WHO is working with Thai officials after woman who travelled from China is hospitalised with new strain of coronavirusHealth authorities have confirmed that a woman travelling from China to Thailand has been infected with a new strain of the coronaviru…
Six-week state of emergency is lifted after disease killed 81 people and sickened more than 5,600 othersSamoa has lifted a six-week state of emergency after the infection rate from a measles outbreak that has swept the country started to come under con…
Teresa Xu says doctor told her to hurry up and get married before having childrenAt the end of last year, Teresa Xu visited a hospital in Beijing to discuss options for freezing her eggs. The doctor said she could not help Xu, a single woman, because i…
Investigation finds children were being treated for ailments that can be cured with pills More than 700 children in Pakistan were infected with HIV, the virus that can cause Aids, through unsafe injections to treat them for conditions such as diarrhoea…
Investigation finds children were being treated for ailments that can be cured with pills More than 700 children in Pakistan were infected with HIV, the virus that can cause Aids, through unsafe injections to treat them for conditions such as diarrhoea…
The unprecedented health crisis has claimed 76 lives, mostly children. Now questions are being asked about how it came to this“Every time I visit my baby, I see a morgue full of dead babies,” says a mother sitting at Tupua Tamasese Meaole National Hosp…
Recovery won’t be easy for the Australians burned in the New Zealand volcano disaster, but some of the world’s best specialists are on hand to helpAs families of the Australian survivors of the New Zealand volcano disaster wait anxiously on their loved…
Country’s health authorities said to have ordered 1.2m sq cm of skin to treat burn injuriesSurgeons are working around the clock to help tourists who suffered horrendous burn injuries in the eruption of the New Zealand’s White Island volcano, health ex…
NZ burns units stretched to capacity as Australian hospitals asked if they can take on additional patientsTourists injured in the eruption of New Zealand’s White Island/Whakaari volcano have burned lungs from inhaling sulphur dioxide and volcanic ash, …
UN agency says fall in vaccination rates has paved way for ‘huge outbreak’ in Pacific island nationA measles epidemic in Samoa has killed 39 people, with the World Health Organization (WHO) blaming an anti-vaccine messaging campaign for leaving the Pac…
Organ nearly 45cm-long was cut from 56-year-old suffering from autosomal dominant polycystic kidney diseaseIndian surgeons have cut a kidney weighing the same as a bowling ball out of a man with a life-threatening genetic condition, a surgeon has said….
Organ nearly 45cm-long was cut from 56-year-old suffering from autosomal dominant polycystic kidney diseaseIndian surgeons have cut a kidney weighing the same as a bowling ball out of a man with a life-threatening genetic condition, a surgeon has said….
Children under five account for all but one of the deaths as suspected cases double to 1,644 Deaths related to measles have risen to 20 in the past week on the Pacific island of Samoa, the government has said, eight days after declaring a state of emer…
At least six deaths have been linked to the outbreak, in a nation where vaccination rates are alarmingly lowSamoa has closed all schools and cracked down on public gatherings as it enters a state of emergency over the deadly measles outbreak spreading …