August 27, 2024
(Reuters) – Scientists studying the new mpox strain that has spread out of Democratic Republic of Congo say the virus is changing faster than expected, and often in areas where experts lack the funding and equipment to properly track it. … Read More
August 26, 2024
(Reuters) – A 10-month-old baby in war-shattered Gaza has been paralysed by the type 2 polio virus, the first such case in the territory in 25 years, the World Health Organization said on Friday, with U.N. agencies appealing for urgent … Read More
August 23, 2024
(Science) – Mpox circulated in Nigeria for 8 years before it sparked a global outbreak. What happened? And could it have been stopped? The first two patients were discharged; in the subsequent months another two who fit the same profile … Read More
August 21, 2024
(MedPage Today) – Athletes who swam in the Seine during the Olympic games in Paris had higher rates of gastroenteritis than those in games past, a U.S. Olympic official told MedPage Today. About 10% of athletes who competed in the … Read More
August 21, 2024
(Reuters) – A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Tuesday called on the Biden administration to ramp up scrutiny of U.S. clinical trials conducted in China, citing the risk of intellectual property theft and the possibility of forced participation of Uyghurs. … Read More
August 20, 2024
(Reuters) – A World Health Organization official stressed on Tuesday that mpox, regardless of whether it is the new or old strain, is not the new COVID, as authorities know how to control its spread. “We can and must tackle … Read More
August 19, 2024
(ABC News) – Congo will receive the first vaccine doses to address its mpox outbreak next week from the United States, the country’s health minister said Monday, days after the World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks in Africa a global … Read More
August 14, 2024
(CNN) – Thousands of doctors have gone on strike across India to demand better protection for health workers after a trainee medic was raped and murdered in eastern West Bengal state. The resident doctor’s body was found last Friday with multiple injuries … Read More
August 14, 2024
(Associated Press) – The World Health Organization declared the mpox outbreaks in Congo and elsewhere in Africa a global emergency on Wednesday, with cases confirmed among children and adults in more than a dozen countries and a new form of … Read More
August 13, 2024
(The Guardian) – The African Union’s health watchdog has declared a public health emergency over the growing mpox outbreak on the continent, saying the move is a “clarion call for action”. The outbreak has swept through several African countries, particularly … Read More
August 12, 2024
(Politico) – Outbreaks of Oropouche virus, which may be linked to fetal deformities, are reported in several countries in South and Central America and the Caribbean. Europe’s disease agency has warned vacationers about the risks — especially for pregnant women … Read More
August 8, 2024
(Associated Press) – The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday he will convene an expert group to determine if the increasing spread of the mpox virus in Africa warrants being declared a global emergency. At a press briefing … Read More
August 8, 2024
(BBC) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced plans to send 1.2 million polio vaccines to Gaza after the virus was detected in wastewater. The agency’s chief, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, outlined plans for two rounds of vaccination, targeting … Read More
August 7, 2024
(Sydney Morning Herald) – The Tokyo Olympics will forever be remembered as the COVID Games, an extraordinary feat of public health ingenuity and Japanese forbearance that enabled the world’s largest sporting event to be staged within a massive, temporary quarantine … Read More
August 7, 2024
(Wired) – A data center in Paris has been hooked up to the energy system heating the Olympic pool. But critics say that projects recycling data centers’ excess heat are a distraction from the real environmental costs of AI. In … Read More
August 6, 2024
(New York Times) – Out of a prewar total of about 20,000 health workers, 500 have been killed in the war, according to the W.H.O., and more than 300 are in Israeli detention, Gaza’s health ministry says. Based on estimates … Read More
August 6, 2024
(Our World Data) – This chart shows death rates across the first year of a baby’s life and how they have been reduced over time. The data spans 1921 to 2021 and comes from the Office for National Statistics in … Read More
August 5, 2024
(Washington Post via MSN) – Vladimir Putin, who has long cultivated an aura of machismo as Russia’s strongman leader, is enlisting women to grow Russia’s population through childbirth and to rebuild his nation as a great power steeped in traditional … Read More
August 5, 2024
(The Guardian) – Argentina’s security forces have announced plans to use artificial intelligence to “predict future crimes” in a move experts have warned could threaten citizens’ rights. The country’s far-right president Javier Milei this week created the Artificial Intelligence Applied … Read More
July 31, 2024
(ABC News) – The World Health Organization announced Monday that it has launched an initiative to help accelerate the development of a human bird flu vaccine using messenger RNA (mRNA) technology. The project, which will be led by Argentinian pharmaceutical … Read More
July 30, 2024
(ABC News) – Skin diseases are running rampant in Gaza, health officials say, from appalling conditions in overcrowded tent camps housing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians driven from their homes Skin diseases are running rampant in Gaza, health officials say. … Read More
July 30, 2024
(NPR) – What if your entire economy was based on one product? TV commercials joke that America runs on Dunkin’, but for all intents and purposes, Denmark quite literally runs on Ozempic, a diabetes medication that is now widely used … Read More
July 30, 2024
(Associated Press) – Though a physician, Vázquez is better known in Puerto Rico as a rapper who uses the stage name PJ Sin Suela. The 34-year-old is trying to fulfill his passion for music while helping those in need — and raise … Read More
July 30, 2024
(Reuters) – At the tap of a buyer’s smartphone, Chinese chemical sellers will air-ship fentanyl ingredients door-to-door to North America. Reuters purchased enough to make 3 million pills. Such deals are astonishingly easy – and reveal how drug traffickers are … Read More
July 26, 2024
(NPR) – As an emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, Ada Yee has lent a helping hand in some of the world’s most dangerous conflict zones: Syria, Yemen, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti. Then she came to Darfur, Western … Read More
