Health

The Daily News Egypt health section provides coverage and analysis of the latest Health,  healthcare, and wellbeing news in Egypt and beyond.
Latest Health News

Lack of oxygen delays brain maturation in preterm infants

Previously, it was believed that lack of blood flow was causing preterm…

Daily News Egypt

Scientists link pancreatic cancer survival to four genes

Results showed that patients who had three or four of the altered…

Daily News Egypt

Etisalat Egypt signs partnership agreement with Prime Pharma to treat Hepatitis C

Etisalat Egypt will sponsor the treatment of 1,200 Egyptian Hepatitis C patients…

Mohamed Samir

Government visits Paris to discuss social health insurance system: Ministry of Finance

System implementation to provide citizens with high quality health services, abiding by…

Adel M. Fakhry

Egypt to implement new healthcare system in current FY: El-Garhy

AfDB agrees to provide grant to finance actuarial studies for new healthcare…

Mohamed Samir

Kenyan salon offers free wigs to cancer patients

Diana Aketch, a Kenyan beautician in Nairobi is handing out free wigs…

Deutsche Welle

The Challenge of Autism: reading the signs and early intervention

Autism affects roughly 1 in 68 children. While the disorder is not…

Daily News Egypt

European Inventor Awards highlight progress in treatment of HIV, Parkinson’s and cancer

The European Inventor Awards ceremony held in Lisbon highlighted some of the…

Deutsche Welle

WHO says ‘no public health justification’ for postponing Olympics over Zika virus

The World Health Organization has rebuffed a call from health experts to…

Deutsche Welle

Life in the land of ‘cheap’ medicine

People who become severely ill in the poorer EU countries lose out…

Deutsche Welle