Photo: Illustration of parents looking in on a sleeping child (file image)
Health & ScienceFDA grants breakthrough status to sleep drug daridorexant for children and teenagers with insomnia
The FDA has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation to daridorexant for insomnia in patients aged 10 to under 18, recognising positive Phase 2 evidence and a condition with no currently approved drug treatment for children.
Photo: A polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan
Pakistan NewsPakistan begins week-long polio campaign today, aiming to vaccinate nearly 24 million children in 97 districts
Pakistan’s sub-national polio vaccination campaign runs from 2 to 8 November, targeting nearly 24 million children under five in 97 selected districts with more than 200,000 frontline workers, days after the country confirmed its eighth polio case of 2026.
Photo: Khan Younis camp in Gaza
NewsTwo infant girls die after tent fire in al-Mawasi, southern Gaza, as cooking-gas shortages force families to cook over open flames
Two infant girls have died of severe burns after a fire tore through a displacement tent in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, on Friday afternoon, medical officials at Nasser Medical Complex said, in one of three tent fires reported that day.