Health

A joint investigation team examines the site of a hotel burnt by Thursday's fire in Bucheon, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. (Photo: AP/Ahn Young-joon)

World

Deadly hotel fire claims seven lives in South Korea

Kurdistan Region's Minister of Health Saman Barzanji (R) and Dr. Yad Naqshbandi, director of Hiwa Hospital in Sulaimani (L). (Photo: Kurdistan24)

Kurdistan

Sulaimani cancer cases steady, early detection key, says hospital director

KRG Minister of Health Saman Barzanji (C), Duhok Governor Ali Tatar (R), and Dr. Afrasiab Musa, the Director General of Health in Duhok (L) during the ceremony. (Photo: Kurdistan24)

Kurdistan

Foundation stones laid for cancer hospital, artificial kidney center in Duhok

Maria Branyas Morera's photos of her youth (L) next to the latest at the age of 117. (Photo: Kurdistan24)

World

Maria Branyas Morera, world's oldest woman, dies peacefully at 117

Nabaz Abdulhamid, the mayor of Erbil's central district. (Photo: Kurdistan24)

Kurdistan

Erbil security seizes four tons of smuggled liver in major crackdown

A nurse stands in an empty waiting room at a vaccination clinic in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. (Photo: AP)

Iraq

Iraqi Ministry of Health, WHO collaborate on precautionary measures against Mpox virus

The photo shows the helicopter that is designated for the air ambulance services in Erbil. (Photo: Kurdistan24)

Kurdistan

Air Ambulance service operates in Erbil

Saman Barzanji, the Minister of Health for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), speaking to Kurdistan24, Aug. 19, 2024. (Photo: Kurdistan24)

Kurdistan

KRG Health Minister discusses global monkeypox outbreak with Kurdistan24

Erbil authorities destroyed over 26,000 electronic cigarettes. (Photo: Kurdistan24)

Kurdistan

Erbil authorities destroy 26,000 seized e-cigarettes, vapes amid crackdown

This file photo taken on August 16, 2022 shows a patient showing his hand with a sore caused by an infection of the monkeypox virus. (Photo: AFP)

Kurdistan

Iraq reports no Mpox cases, establishes special teams at borders, airports

This electron microscope image shows virus particles. (Photo: AP)

World

U.S. warns of new virus spread by infected midges, mosquitoes in the Americas

Family nurse practitioner Carol Ramsubhag-Carela prepares a syringe with the Mpox vaccine before inoculating a patient at a vaccinations site on, Aug. 30, 2022, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (Photo: AP/Jeenah Moon)

World

A new global health emergency: What is mpox, where are the outbreaks and what is the WHO doing?

Kurdistan Region's Ministry of Health. (Photo: Kurdistan24)

Kurdistan

KRG Ministry of Health highlights importance of Hepatitis B vaccination, preventive measures

Europe

Weight-loss drug maker Novo Nordisk posts slight profit rise

A reusable shaving razor. (Photo: Kurdistan24)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region bans reusable razors in barbershops to prevent disease transmission

The logos of Kurdistan Region's Ministry of Health (L) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). (Photo: Kurdistan24)

Kurdistan

UNFPA delivers mobile clinics to Kurdistan Region’s Ministry of Health