Houston: A team of cancer research scientists has discovered a new subset of T cells that could potentially have positive effects on patients undergoing T-cell therapy. T-cell-based immunotherapy is effective against and often eradicates cancer. The method activates the patient’s immune system and engineers the patient’s own T cells to recognize, attack and kill cancer…
Some missions were accomplished. Others continue today. Since the Organization’s inception at the end of the Second World War, UN Member States have scrambled to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war” by deploying their collective efforts to prevent the kind of utter devastation that global conflict brought to Europe, Africa, Asia and beyond,…
The agency revealed that in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, cases of recruitment and use of children in armed groups along with killings and maiming increased by more than 130 per cent between the two time periods. Protect the vulnerable Gilles Fagninou, UNICEF’s regional director for West and Central Asia, underscored the need to curb…
The updated World Employment and Social Outlook report predicts that the global unemployment rate will be 4.9 per cent in 2024, slightly down from 5.0 per cent in 2023. This represents a revision from the previous projection in January of 5.2 per cent for this year, which is expected to flatten in 2025, with unemployment…
Laura Lo Castro, UNHCR‘s representative in Chad, said that expected rains have started in Adre, leaving tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees without shelter suitable for protection. The rains also impede humanitarian access due to catastrophic flooding, she added. “It’s paramount that we scale up the response now and immediately relocate as many refugees as…
That was the strong message from President of the Western Pacific nation of Palau Surangel Whipps speaking at an Interactive Dialogue on Wednesday during the Fourth International Conference on SIDS (SIDS4), taking place this week on the twin island of Antigua and Barbuda in the Caribbean. He told delegates there needed to be a “transition…
“We have distributed an enormous amount of essential medical supplies, but it’s not enough. I mean, this is such an overwhelming disaster, it’s not enough,” said Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) representative in Palestine. Speaking in Geneva on the sidelines of the World Health Assembly, the senior WHO official echoed widespread…
In a briefing to the Security Council, Tor Wennesland emphasised the urgent need for all sides to change course. “We must reach an agreement to release the hostages and put in place an immediate ceasefire. There is absolutely no time to lose,” he said, stressing that halting the fighting is essential for a comprehensive humanitarian…
(Photo: Video screenshot) Peshawar: Employees of other government institutions, including teachers, protested against only 10 percent salary hike and pension reforms, on which the police lathi-charged and pelted them. According to Express News, the teachers and other employees gathered at No. 1 school and decided to march from the school to Assembly Chowk in the…
Iconic photo An alert was issued by the Punjab Health Department to control the increasing epidemic of measles. Punjab Health Minister Khawaja Imran Nazir and Salman Rafique visited Kabirwala Basic Health Center (BHU) and reviewed the medical facilities and supply of medicines. The provincial ministers ordered to complete the upgradation work of the hospital soon….
