In Brazil, health care workers are on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic in more ways than one, treating patients but also volunteering to test some of the most promising experimental vaccines. Brazil is the country with the second-highest number of infections and deaths in the...

Many hospitals need urgent reconstruction, but sanctions are preventing them from importing critical equipment It has been a month since US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Caesar Act sanctions coming into play as policy on 17 June.  There has been a clear mismatch in US...

 Three Syrian doctors were tested positive for coronavirus in Damascus, the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Damascus University said Wednesday. Dr. Naboug Al-Awa said the three cases were recorded among the internship doctors in the university hospital. In the...

Browse through Arabic-language social media pages and you could walk away thinking COVID-19 is an American hoax, isn't deadly and can be swiftly cured with a garlic clove. Arabic pages on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are brimming with fake news stories on the novel coronavirus, from...