GENEVA, Switzerland, May 5, 2023 (ENS) – COVID-19 no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern, the World Health Organization announced today, following the advice of the International [...]
GENEVA, Switzerland, January 24, 2023 (ENS) – Five of every eight people on Earth, five billion people, remain unprotected from harmful trans fats in their food, increasing their risk of [...]
GENEVA, Switzerland, July 24, 2022 (ENS) – The ongoing multi-country outbreak of monkeypox constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared [...]
By Benjamin Seidman
SANTA CRUZ DEL QUICHE, Guatemala, April 21, 2022 (ENS) – “Before, it wasted a lot of firewood and it’s very expensive. We don’t have jobs to get [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, April 1, 2022 (ENS) – Highly infectious outbreaks of bird flu in 23 states since January have led to the killing of more than 17 million chickens and [...]
GENEVA, Switzerland, March 7, 2022 (ENS) – SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is still spreading among people globally as we enter the third year of the coronavirus pandemic. The [...]
BOSTON, Massachusetts, January 23, 2022 (ENS) – A couple who gets vaccinated for COVID-19 need not worry that the vaccine will impair fertility, but males who become infected by the [...]
ST. LOUIS, Missouri, November 29, 2021 (ENS) – Lasers that emit ultrashort pulses of light can kill multidrug-resistant bacteria such as MRSA and E. coli, researchers at Washington University School [...]
ROME, Italy, October 30, 2021 (ENS) – The G20 nations are getting serious about controlling the coronavirus pandemic and any future pandemic that might arise. On Friday in their first [...]
By Dr. Francis Collins, Director, National Institutes of Health, United States
BETHESDA, Maryland, September 7, 2021 (ENS) – At the end of last year, you may recall hearing news reports [...]
BERLIN, Germany, September 2, 2021 (ENS) – The tools to forecast, detect and assess epidemic and pandemic risks are on offer from a new central intelligence collection and sharing hub [...]
NEW YORK, New York, August 20, 2021 (ENS) – Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced a $31 million investment to bring six new cities on three continents into its Partnership for Healthy [...]
BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 2, 2021 (ENS) – Scientists have found a way to embed synthetic biology-based sensors into fabrics, creating wearable biosensors that can be programmed to detect pathogens and [...]
ROME, Italy, May 23, 2021 (ENS) – Leaders of the G20 have committed to a series of actions to accelerate the end of the COVID-19 crisis throughout the world and [...]
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 14, 2021 (ENS) – Scanty vaccine supplies in low and lower-middle income countries cannot cover even the innoculation of health care workers, the head of the World [...]
GENEVA, Switzerland, April 20, 2021 (ENS) – Tobacco kills up to half of its users, and the human and economic costs of tobacco are on the rise, the World Health [...]
SAO PAULO, Brazil, February 13, 2021 (ENS) – A plastic film that can deactivate 99.99 percent of the virus that causes COVID-19 in 15 minutes has been released by [...]
SAO PAULO, Brazil, February 10, 2021 (ENS) – Amid the isolation imposed by COVID-19, the brain resorts to dreams in an effort to metabolize the intense emotions experienced during [...]
ROCKVILLE, Maryland, January 21, 2021 (ENS) – Living near an abundance of green plants and trees can offset the negative effects of air pollution on blood vessel health, according [...]
LONDON, UK, January 4, 2021 (ENS) – The first vaccinations using the Oxford University/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine were given today to members of the British public as the National [...]
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