March 20, 2025
(CBS News) – The United States this year fell to its lowest-ever place on the World Happiness Report, an annual survey published on International Day of Happiness. The 2025 report highlights the positive effects benevolence and social connections have on people’s … Read More
March 18, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – By 2050, there will be an estimated 25.2 million people living with Parkinson’s disease worldwide, a 112 percent increase from 2021, according to a new study published in the journal BMJ. The World Health Organization … Read More
March 14, 2025
(Gizmodo) – Measles isn’t just making a comeback in the United States. In a report out this week, the World Health Organization found that cases of the vaccine-preventable disease surged in Europe and Central Asia last year, reaching the highest … Read More
March 14, 2025
(The Guardian) – Moves by US, UK and other donors to cut aid mean ‘high malnutrition rates, starvation and death’, say experts As the United Nations and other agencies try to understand just how badly President Donald Trump’s announced 83% … Read More
March 14, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Every year, my colleagues and I put together a list of what we think are the top 10 breakthrough technologies of that year. When it came to innovations in biotech, there was a clear winner: lenacapavir, … Read More
March 13, 2025
(New York Times) – People who endured the longest Covid restrictions in the world are still grappling with what they lost: their loved ones, their livelihoods, their dignity. Perhaps no country was as deeply reshaped by the pandemic as China, … Read More
March 13, 2025
(Reuters) – Germany’s foreign intelligence service in 2020 put at 80%-90% the likelihood that the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic was accidentally released from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, two German newspapers reported on Wednesday. According to a joint report … Read More
March 13, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 392, no. 7, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 6, 2025
(BBC) – Sweden, Taiwan, Uruguay, Iceland and a few others never enacted a lockdown that involved severe restrictions on the movement of people, such as legally binding stay-at-home orders applied across large swathes of the population. Those countries instead chose … Read More
March 6, 2025
(Axios) – The H5N1 bird flu strain has infected humans and other animals in every continent except Australia, and scientists say it could serve as a model for other countries. The big picture: The continent has seen small outbreaks of … Read More
March 6, 2025
(New York Times) – A growing health libertarianism insists on bodily autonomy, out of anger about pandemic mitigation and faith that personal behavior can ward off infection and death. And the greatest social and technological experiment of our time, artificial … Read More
March 5, 2025
(New York Times) – Health providers in Sudan have recorded 221 cases of rape since the start of 2024, according to the UNICEF report. Among the victims, 147 were girls and 74 were boys. Sixteen children were younger than 5 … Read More
March 4, 2025
(The Guardian) – A slow convoy of a dozen ambulances and buses brought 25 wounded and sick Palestinian children from Gaza and across Israel on Tuesday, past the heavily armed forces that bombarded the territory for 15 months, and that … Read More
March 4, 2025
(The Conversation) – Scientists already know that extreme heat increases the risk of heat stroke, cardiovascular disease, kidney dysfunction and even death. I see these effects often in my work as a researcher studying how environmental stressors influence the aging … Read More
March 4, 2025
(New York Times) – As China’s government worries about the falling birthrate, some private employers have ordered workers to do their part, or else. Last year, 6.1 million Chinese couples got married — a 20 percent decline from a year … Read More
March 3, 2025
(New York Times) – The Trump administration’s decision to withdraw foreign aid and dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development is likely to cause enormous human suffering, according to estimates by the agency itself. Among them: up to 18 million … Read More
March 3, 2025
(KFF Health News) – A growing number of states have made it easier for doctors who trained in other countries to get medical licenses, a shift supporters say could ease physician shortages in rural areas. The changes involve residency programs … Read More
March 3, 2025
(BBC) – More than 500 mpox patients have fled clinics in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo over the last month amid the current conflict. Officials at Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), a leading health agency on … Read More
March 3, 2025
(CBS News) – A mystery illness that has caused dozens of deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo appears to from a “poisoning of a water source,” according to the World Health Organization. The WHO’s head of emergencies Mike Ryan … Read More
February 28, 2025
(New York Times) – “This award is being terminated for convenience and the interest of the U.S. government,” they began. The terse notes ended funding for some 5,800 projects that had been financed by the United States Agency for International … Read More
February 27, 2025
(The Guardian) – Senior doctors and surgeons describe the torture, starvation, humiliation and denial of medical care they endured while being held without charge Many days I was tied to a chair in the interrogation room for maybe 15 hours. … Read More
February 26, 2025
(Science) – Barred from the country, researchers try to monitor death and destruction from afar The lab, part of Yale’s School of Public Health, is one of several groups gauging the devastation caused by the brutal civil war in Sudan. … Read More
February 25, 2025
(STAT News) – Two U.S. government agencies that are key players in the World Health Organization-led process to select the flu viruses for next winter’s influenza vaccines are participating in a meeting to discuss the issue, despite the Trump administration’s … Read More
February 25, 2025
(Associated Press) – An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say. The interval between the onset of symptoms … Read More
February 24, 2025
(Independent) – Would-be parents seeking out commercial foreign surrogacies are being warned the government may fight their bids for adoption, rendering the infants both permanently stateless and legally parentless. A High Court case revealed a “self-centred” older UK couple – … Read More
