19 February 2020 World No Country Really Protecting Children’s Health, Says Report Excessive carbon emissions – disproportionately from wealthier countries – threaten the future of all children, says a commission comprising WHO, Unicef, and The Lancet.
19 February 2020 World Covid-19 Deaths Pass 2,000, But Fewer Getting Infected The World Health Organization cautions that it is too early to tell if the gradual decline of new cases reported in China will continue.
18 February 2020 World Ireland’s Royal College Of Surgeons Honours Malaysian For Medical Education Dr Godfrey Geh started two private hospitals in Penang that are now tertiary hospitals.
14 February 2020 World Coronavirus Kills Almost 1,400 in China, 5,000 New Cases Reported Hubei province is changing its method of counting coronavirus cases to identify patients with pneumonia.
13 February 2020 World US Vaping Deaths Rise To 64 Emergency hospital visits for vaping-linked illnesses have been decreasing since peaking in September, says the CDC.
11 February 2020 World Almost One Month For Coronavirus Symptoms To Show: Study But the median incubation period for 2019-nCoV is only three days.
10 February 2020 World UK Declares Coronavirus Outbreak Serious Threat To Health Coronavirus patients can be forcibly quarantined or forcibly sent into isolation.
7 February 2020 World Chinese Whistleblower Doctor Dies From Coronavirus The Supreme People’s Court in China had defended Dr Li Wenliang’s actions.
6 February 2020 World Unicef: Doctor-Sanctioned Female Genital Mutilation Is Still Mutilation Trained health care professionals who perform female genital mutilation are violating girls' fundamental rights, says Unicef.
5 February 2020 World Parts of NHS ‘Seriously Financially Unstable’, Audit Finds The UK's publicly funded health care system is building up levels of debt that they are unlikely to repay, the country's auditors said.