A sign outside of a hospital advertises COVID-19 testing on November 19, 2021 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images New York officials have confirmed five cases of the omicron Covid-19 variant in the New York City metropolitan area, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced late Thursday, hours after cases were detected in Minnesota and […]
Workers transport a shipment of the Cuban Soberana Plus vaccine against Covid-19, to be donated by the Cuban government to Syria, at Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, on Jan. 7, 2022. YAMIL LAGE | AFP | Getty Images Cuba has vaccinated a greater percentage of its population against Covid-19 than almost all of the […]
New research analysing the effect of maternal diet on fetal growth links a healthy diet to a reduced risk of a low birth weight baby. Low birth weight, defined as a birth weight of less than 2500g (5.5lbs), is a global health problem. It is estimated that approximately 20 million babies a year are born […]
