Pediatricians like me are worried that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine advisers will make it harder for children to get the ...

By weaponising public health, the American government created at atmosphere of distrust, one that continues to affect ...

A new polio case has been reported in the North Waziristan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, confirmed the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) ...

North Waziristan - Pakistan has confirmed its 14th polio case of 2025, with the latest infection reported from North ...

Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two countries where polio remains endemic due to religious extremism and conspiracy theories.

HADID: Those players spread the game to Europe. But the Taliban aren't the only ones who've banned chess. Iran did, too, after the revolution in 1978. It was repealed a decade later, and now Iran's a ...

The Taliban suspended chess — during its first iteration of rule, and now, because it's "a means of gambling," the sports minister Atal Mashwani told the French news service, AFP.

The Taliban's ban on playing chess in public was reported in May by local and international media, but it appeared that it had begun long before, implemented in stops and starts. Hassanzadeh told NPR ...

Chess in Afghanistan isn't madly followed like cricket or the national game — buzkashi — a polo-like sport, except the jockeys have whips and they have to dash across a field holding the carcass of a ...

Doctors note that only one in 200 polio carriers displays signs of paralysis, making detection difficult without laboratory examination of stool specimens. “Immunisation remains the most ...