Climate Health Medical

Tax fossil fuel extraction, aviation, shipping: UN chief says at COP29

UN Secretary-General António Guterres outlined a three-point plan to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030, including new ways to.

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Health Medical Pharma

Famine in Gaza Strip is ‘imminent,’ likelihood ‘substantial’: FRC

An international body of technical experts in the field of food security has issued an alert about an “imminent” and “substantial” likelihood of.

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Drugs Health Pharma

WHO activates emergency health network in mpox-hit nations for first time

The World Health Organization has for the first time activated its emergency health network in eight countries affected by the mpox outbreak, including.

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Climate Health Medical

Global heat to cripple economies, wreck billions of lives: UN official says

Exiting plans to combat climate change “fall miles short” of what’s needed to stop global heating from destroying every economy and wrecking billions.

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Climate Health Pharma

Ozone layer may fully recover by 2040 if current policies prevail

The Earth’s ozone layer may recover fully by 2040, and five years later over the Arctic, if the current policies restricting the production.

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Drugs Health Medical

Six UN health workers die in Israeli airstrikes on school in Gaza Strip

Six staff members working for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees were killed in Gaza during Israeli airstrikes on.

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Drugs Health Medical

SDG targets in danger as paychecks shrink globally, ILO says

Falling global wages, possibly driven by automation and artificial intelligence, will slow the pace of achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) as the 2030.

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Drugs Health Pharma

UNICEF issues emergency tender to purchase mpox vaccines

United Nations Children’s Fund, the world's largest single vaccine buyer, has issued an emergency tender to buy mpox vaccines to fight the rapid.

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Drugs Health Pharma

US drug regulator blocks Regeneron’s blood cancer therapy 

The US regulatory body has rejected Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,’s blood cancer drug as it did not meet the pre-approval standards of the agency.

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Drugs Health Pharma

A quarter of global adolescent girls face violence by intimate partners: WHO

About 24% of adolescent girls or close to 19 million globally have experienced physical or sexual violence by their intimate partner by the.

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