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The "profound" impact of the coronavirus pandemic and related cuts to health care left more than 4.3 million more people suffering from tuberculosis (TB) without treatment in 2020, according to…
Much of East Asia and the Pacific faces far slower economic growth than was expected a few months ago, according to the World Bank, which on Tuesday slashed its outlook…
The coronavirus pandemic has worsened a "grim" economic outlook for the world's poorest countries, UN trade officials believe, with many likely to be "mired" in crises for years to come.…
Around three-quarters of the world's people with diabetes cannot get the treatment they need, according to the University of Birmingham in Britain, which warned of "huge drop-offs" in care worldwide.…
The manpower ministry uncovered a ‘potential syndicate suspected of setting up several shell companies to apply for work passes.’ The arrests followed an investigation after a foreign national in July…
Overcoming weight-related health problems depends more on hard work and exercise than on cutting calories, according to health researchers in the US.Though excess weight contributes to diabetes and heart disease,…
Research and development (R&D) spending in booming sectors such as software and pharmaceuticals has increased since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, while transport and travel, which have been hit…
Governments need to "rethink global travel restrictions," according to the Singapore-based secretariat of the 21-country Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) bloc, which described the pandemic-related curbs as "chaotic." The frontier rules…
Images of grinning, gun-toting, khaki-clad hunters posingI over dead lions and elephants have long provoked outrage, scorn and bewilderment. But safari trophy-seekers are not the biggest threat to some protected…
Overeating does not always make you overweight, according to research published by Oxford University Press (OUP), which put the US's "obesity epidemic" down to processed carbs prompting hormones to cause…