Surviving a future of extreme heat
Jun 07,2022 – JORDAN TIMES . Kristie L. Ebi SEATTLE — Although nearly all heat-related deaths are preventable, heatwaves kill thousands of people worldwide every year. At this very moment, […]
Ageing, Spirituality and What Really Matters in the End
Hamaad KhanSCIENCE, MEDICINE AND TECHNOLOGY 9th January 2022 THE REVIEW OF RELIGIONS ©Shutterstock Hamaad Khan, UK Wispy hair, sunken flesh, brittle bones; as we age, we are marked by the […]
Will it ever end? Here is what happened with previous pandemics
BY GERMAN PRESS AGENCY – DPA LOS ANGELES JAN 05, 2022 – Vaccinations are stalled, hospitals keep getting COVID-19 patients and the WHO has announced a new variant of concern: omicron, […]
Our world is changing in worrying ways
NIDHAL GUESSOUM December 21, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/47y55 In October 2020, with the pandemic still to reach its peak and vaccines not yet available, the writer and CNN host Fareed […]
A pandemic of conspiracy theories spreads across the internet and around the world
Source: Yahoo Finance By Caitlin Dickson Depending on who you talk to, the current coronavirus pandemic might be the natural product of evolution, the result of a lab accident or […]
Stop Using Antibiotics in Healthy Animals, World Health Organization Says
Source: Time By Alexandra Sifferlin November 7, 2017 About 80% of antibiotics worldwide are used in animals, something health experts say is contributing to the growing problem of antibiotic resistance, in […]
It’s Been One Year Since the World Took On Superbugs. Here’s What’s Changed
Source: Time BY Alexandra Sifferlin Sep 22, 2017 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. This week marks one year since world leaders met at the United Nations General Assembly in New York […]
Ending malaria for good
breakthrough science In countries across sub-Saharan Africa, rates of malaria are going down. Fewer people contract the disease, and fewer of them die. So why is fighting malaria still so […]
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: Ethiopian wins top WHO job
Our favorite posts: The Muslim Times Recommending Universal BCG Vaccination to Fight the Pandemic and A Moonshot Moment for the Muslims: Making Covid 19 Vaccine before the West and China Source: BBC Dated: 2017 Tedros […]
Malaria: Kenya, Ghana and Malawi get first vaccine
Source: BBC By James GallagherHealth and science reporter, BBC News website Image copyrightD POLAND/PATHImage captionThe vaccine has been tested extensively in more than 15,000 children The world’s first vaccine against […]
If a nuclear bomb is dropped on your city, here’s where you should run and hide
Finding a good shelter as soon as possible and going inside is critical to surviving fallout Dave Mosher and Andy Kiersz, Business Insider Mushroom cloud from nuclear explosion/Overdone cauliflower cheese. […]
WHAT TO DO IF A NUCLEAR DISASTER IS IMMINENT!
This guide is for families preparing for imminent terrorist or strategic nuclear attacks with expected blast destruction followed by widespread radioactive fallout downwind. (If attack NOT imminent, then first go […]
Even with one cigarette a day, odds of early death are higher
By Reuters – Dec 06,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Photo courtesy of lifescript.com Smokers who go through much less than a pack of cigarettes a day still have a higher risk of an early death than non-smokers, a new study suggests. “There is no safe level of cigarette smoking,” […]
Vital to the planet
Nov 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL The UN climate change conference, held recently in Morocco as a crucial step for governments looking to build on the Paris Climate Change Agreement adopted last year, was proof that the implementation of the Paris Agreement is under way and that the spirit of […]
India: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Bangalore participates in Walkathon on “World Diabetes Day”
Walkathon – Ahmadiyya Muslim Community ,Bangalore India Report by Muhammed Sharik Saigal, Secretary Dawat Ilallah Bangalore, India. Alhumdullilah, members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Bangalore India participated in Walkathon on the Event of World Diabetes Day on 14th Nov 2016. The event was organised by Davita Medical Center represented by […]
World Health Organization Lifts Emergency Declaration Against Zika
Source: Time (GENEVA)— Acknowledging Zika is here to stay, the United Nations health agency is lifting a 9-month-old emergency declaration against the mosquito-borne virus that can result in severe birth defects when pregnant women are infected. The World Health Organization is instead shifting to a longer-term approach against a virus […]
Who’s WHO? Six candidates named for next World Health Organisation chief
theguardian: by Kate Hodal — Ministers and academics from France, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Italy, Hungary and UK will vie to succeed Margaret Chan as director general in July 2017 Margaret Chan will step down next summer after a decade at the helm of the World Health Organisation. Photograph: Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters Six […]
24-hour service to treat sun, heatstroke victims during Haj
MOHAMMED RASOOLDEEN | Published — Thursday 1 September 2016 A Saudi security guard sprays water over pilgrims to cool them down as they walk back to their tents after casting stones at Jamarrat pillars, a ritual that symbolises the stoning of Satan, during the annual pilgrimage, known as the hajj, […]
The UN has failed to protect Syrians from war and hunger. Now it’s telling them to stop smoking
Your home may be in flames, your family enslaved, your torturers itching to pull out your fingernails – but above all you’ve got to ignore the ciggy packet in your pocket Robert Fisk @indyvoices 41 Syrians gathering at the scene of a double bomb attack outside the Sayyida Zeinab shrine AFP […]