Tag: Health

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 11 — A new study published in the June 2026 issue of Health Affairs has found that employer points systems, which penalize...

Bikaner, June 10 — Six women who underwent caesarean deliveries at the PBM Hospital in Rajasthan's Bikaner have developed serious health complications, including kidney-related issues,...

For three decades, more than 200,000 people tracked what they ate. The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health then asked a different question than most diet

TOKYO, June 6 — Researchers in Japan have made a promising discovery in the fight against Alzheimer's disease, reporting that arginine, a common and inexpensive...

Nearly half a million Somali children now face the immediate prospect of death without urgent medical intervention. The United Nations warning, issued May 15, p

Wes Streeting is out as Health Secretary. The man who ran the NHS and social care for England since 2024 handed in his resignation on May 15, 2026. That much is

The University of Kent in England has begun rolling out the meningococcal vaccine following a recent outbreak of the disease that resulted in the deaths of two

Hurricane Melissa has passed, but the water it left behind is still killing people. Jamaica's health minister, Christopher Tufton, has confirmed an outbreak of

A devastating series of heat-related incidents has struck Europe, resulting in the loss of several lives. On July 2, 2025, two farmers in Catalonia, Spain, trag

The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling on June 18, 2025, that will reshape the medical landscape for transgender adolescents across the country. By a 6–3 v

Thailand’s Cannabis Reversal: How a Promised Green Rush Turned to Dust BANGKOK — For a brief window, Thailand was the cannabis poster child of Southeast Asia.

On March 18, 2025, American author John Green published his second nonfiction book, "Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection," which...

Colombo's tourist season has been shattered by a single chemical mistake. On February 7, 2025, two travelers died inside their hostel room after staff fumigated

The bacteria that live inside every human gut, numbering in the trillions, include a tiny fraction of E. coli. Most of it is harmless. Some strains even make vi

A devastating fire broke out in the neonatal intensive care unit at the Jhansi Medical College hospital in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, North India, on November 15, 2

New Delhi, the capital city of India, has reported its 15th consecutive day with a "very poor" recorded air quality index, as significant air pollution continue

A breach of security at the Alpha Genesis, Inc. research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, has resulted in the escape of 43 Rhesus macaque monkeys. The inci

The air quality index in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, has reached a record-high score of 1,900, prompting the Punjab government to take drastic measures to protect

Seven people remain hospitalized today after a carbon monoxide leak at a Swanage care home left three residents dead. The victims, all elderly, were exposed to

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this year has been jointly awarded to three pioneering scientists: British computer scientist Demis Hassabis, American chemist

The World Health Organization (WHO) received a report of the first-ever outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) in Rwanda on 28 September 2024, marking a...

The death toll from the blast at the pharmaceutical plant in Anakapalli now stands at seventeen. Forty-one others are injured. Many of those survivors face a gr

China is the only country still pouring significant money into new coal power plants. That single fact drives home the scale of the challenge facing the global

Calgary sits in a bowl. The Bow and Elbow rivers meet here, and the Rocky Mountain foothills give way to prairie. On July 24, 2024, that geography turned agains