Swine Flu

Later this month, Egyptian schoolchildren will return from their mid-year break. It will be the first time this year that…

The mid-year school holiday is set to begin on Saturday and last for two weeks. Schools are scheduled to resume…

A government-appointed committee for combating the H5N1 and H1N1 viruses--known respectively as bird and swine flu--decided Thursday to ban the…

Gamal el-Zeini, MP for the ruling National Democratic Party, criticized the Health Ministry in Monday's parliamentary session for encouraging the…

The corruption case of former Minister of Housing Mohsamed Ibrahim Suleiman made headlines today, particularly in the opposition and the…

Seventeen pharmaceutical companies in Egypt requested licenses from the health ministry to locally produce Tamiflu, the medicine used to treat…

President Mubarak’s meeting yesterday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was the lead story in Al-Ahram and Al-Akhbar, the two…

Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif has ordered the immediate vaccination of all school and university students against H1N1, commonly known as…