March 13, 2024
(CNBC) – The European Union’s parliament on Wednesday approved the world’s first major set of regulatory ground rules to govern the mediatized artificial intelligence at the forefront of tech investment. The EU brokered provisional political consensus in early December, and … Read More
March 12, 2024
(Associated Press) – The nation’s top public health agency is expanding a program that tests international travelers for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention program asks arriving international passengers to volunteer to have their … Read More
March 11, 2024
(New York Times) – For decades, China harshly restricted the number of children couples could have, arguing that everyone would be better off with fewer mouths to feed. The government’s one-child policy was woven into the fabric of everyday life, … Read More
March 11, 2024
(New York Times) – Nearly 60,000 pregnant women in Gaza are suffering from malnutrition, dehydration and lack of proper health care, according to the Gaza health ministry. In a statement on Friday, the ministry said that about 5,000 women in … Read More
March 11, 2024
March 8, 2024
(New York Times) – More than 230 million women and girls around the world have undergone female genital cutting, according to a new analysis by UNICEF, an increase of 30 million since the organization’s last global estimate in 2016. While … Read More
March 8, 2024
(STAT News) – Girls across the globe are hitting puberty earlier than ever before. A 2020 study of 20 countries across six continents found that the median age when girls first experience breast development has dropped by about three months … Read More
March 8, 2024
(Reuters) – The World Health Organization on Friday urged governments to consider gender when developing their alcohol policies, warning that industry marketing increasingly targeted women who face greater health risks than men from lower levels of drinking. The Geneva-based WHO … Read More
March 6, 2024
(Reuters) – Global health donors pledged nearly $600 million towards eliminating cervical cancer on Tuesday, at the first global forum dedicated to fighting the disease. The World Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF … Read More
March 4, 2024
(NPR) – France’s lawmakers have approved a bill to enshrine the right to an abortion in the country’s constitution, a historic move that came in response to concerns over the rollback of abortion laws in the United States. Members of … Read More
March 4, 2024
(NPR) – At least six Brazilian states in addition to the Federal District are facing dengue epidemics and 17 cities have declared a state of emergency as the country has already registered 1 million cases of dengue in the first … Read More
March 1, 2024
(STAT News) – In a global first, some travelers and laboratory researchers who are at risk of contracting chikungunya will soon be allowed to be vaccinated against the virus. A committee of vaccine experts recommended Wednesday that those select groups … Read More
March 1, 2024
(Axios) -Rates of obesity in the U.S. and around the world have more than doubled over the past three decades, according to a new study in The Lancet. Why it matters: More than 1 billion people worldwide now have obesity, … Read More
February 28, 2024
(New York Times) – The Food and Drug Administration, citing Ecuadorean investigators, said a spice grinder was likely responsible for the contamination and said the quick recall of three million applesauce pouches protected the food supply. But hundreds of pages … Read More
February 28, 2024
(STAT News) – An unprecedented shortage of cholera vaccine has public health experts fearing that a recent surge of outbreaks across developing countries will only worsen, a situation they argue is as regrettable as it was avoidable. At least 16 … Read More
February 27, 2024
(ABC News) – Peru declared a health emergency in most of its provinces on Monday due to a growing number of dengue cases that are occurring at a time of higher than usual temperatures caused by the El Nino weather … Read More
February 27, 2024
(New York Times) – Worldwide, the health care industry used more than 24 billion pounds of plastic in 2023, and is forecast to generate 38 billion pounds annually by 2028, according to BCC Research, a global market research firm. Typically … Read More
February 27, 2024
(NPR) – Every year, nearly 500,000 children die from an easily curable condition: diarrhea. There’s a simple and effective treatment: mixing oral rehydration salts — which are basically a mix of sugar and salt in the form of glucose and … Read More
February 23, 2024
(STAT News) – In the years leading up to Russia’s invasion, Ukraine had become a burgeoning hub of clinical trials, particularly in oncology. The war put a hold on the vast majority of those studies. But as the country marks … Read More
February 23, 2024
(Reuters) – Pharmacies across the United States are experiencing disruptions following a hack at UnitedHealth’s technology unit, Change Healthcare, several pharmacy chains said in statements and on social media. The problems began on Wednesday after a “suspected nation-state associated cybersecurity … Read More
February 21, 2024
(The Hill) – A growing number of children in Gaza are “acutely malnourished” and isolated in the northern part of the territory as Israel pushes forward with expanding its military operations in the region, according to a study by UNICEF. … Read More
February 21, 2024
(Associated Press) – Zimbabwe began an emergency campaign to inoculate more than 4 million children against polio on Tuesday after health authorities detected three cases caused by the rare mutation of the weakened virus used in oral vaccines, including a … Read More
February 19, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – China has more obese people than anywhere else in the world, and they are increasingly turning to weight-loss drugs to solve the problem. That is fueling a gray market of drug sellers and buyers, who have … Read More
February 19, 2024
(STAT News) – Six years ago, the National Institutes of Health placed its biggest ever bet on precision medicine, launching a study to enroll over 1 million participants in an ambitious data-gathering gambit unmatched in its scope and diversity. Since … Read More
February 19, 2024
(Medscape) – How big is the problem? According to the first-ever European Union (EU)–wide survey on loneliness, EU-LS 2022, conducted by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), around 13% of 20,000 respondents reported feeling lonely most or all of the time … Read More
