health
Romania postpones Beating Cancer plan
The launch and implementation of the National Plan to fight cancer has been postponed, Romania's Health Minister Alexandru Rafila said in a press conference...
Portuguese parliament votes to legalize limited euthanasia
After a long battle, Portugal on Friday passed a law legalizing euthanasia for people in great suffering and with incurable diseases, joining just a...
EU offers help, prepares to counter China’s COVID crisis
The European Union said Tuesday it has offered China help to deal with its COVID-19 crisis, including the donation of vaccines, as the bloc...
France urges EU peers to test Chinese travellers for COVID
France on Sunday urged European Union peers to test Chinese travellers for COVID after Paris decided to do so amid an outbreak sweeping the country,...
EU urges more checks for COVID variants given surge in China
The European Union should consider immediately scaling up genomic sequencing of COVID-19 infections and monitoring of waste water, including from airports, to detect any...
First case of Monkeypox in Romania
Romania's Ministry of Health announced on Monday that the first case of Monkeypox in the country was diagnosed in a 26-year-old man from Bucharest,...
Refugee crisis strains Republic of Moldova’s healthcare system
The arrival of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees in Republic of Moldova is putting huge pressure on its health care system and it...
Pope Francis prays for pandemic’s end, peace dialogues on Christmas
Pope Francis prayed Saturday for an end to the coronavirus pandemic, using his Christmas Day address to urge health care for all, vaccines for...
Fire at COVID-19 hospital in Romania kills two patients
Two patients died and a nurse was injured when a fire broke out at Movila Hospital in the central Romanian city of Ploiesti early...
Israel sees probable link between Pfizer vaccine and myocarditis cases
Israel’s Ministry of Health said on Tuesday it had found a small number of heart inflammation cases observed mainly in young men who received...