Reports that cases of a flu-like virus called HMPV are rising in China have sparked concern, but experts have dismissed fears that the situation is comparable to the beginnings of COVID-19 five years ago. Here is what you need to know about HMPV: Similar to flu HMPV stands for “human metapneumovirus” and generally causes a…
Russia’s Representative at the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya noted that Israel’s blockade of the Palestinian enclave and attacks had caused a humanitarian crisis, damage to medical infrastructure and mass displacements Russia called on Israel to put an immediate end to hostilities in the Gaza Strip at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council. Russia’s…
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations issued on Monday what he called a final warning to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants to halt their missile attacks on Israel, saying they risked the same “miserable fate” as Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad if they persisted. The ambassador, Danny Danon, also warned Tehran that Israel has the ability to…
US president-elect Donald Trump has nominated surgeon and writer Martin Makary to lead the Food and Drug Administration, the world’s most influential drug regulator with a more than $7 billion budget. Makary, a physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where he is chief of islet transplant surgery, in interviews promoting his most recent book…
