Tag: Health

The Gaza Strip is facing a significant public health challenge with the emergence of an outbreak of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2), first discovered...

The path to the FDA's July 15 approval of donanemab was paved with controversy, clinical risk, and a desperate need for answers. Alzheimer's disease afflicts mi

Twenty-five years. That is how long the Gaza Strip had gone without a single case of polio. The virus was gone. Eradicated. Then, on July 16, 2024, it was back.

Houston is still hot. In the days after Hurricane Beryl tore through Texas on July 8, 2024, the sun returned. So did the humidity. What did not return, for more

The respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine has been a crucial development in the fight against the virus, which affects an estimated 64 million people and...

The dengue epidemic that struck Argentina in 2024 did not hit evenly. It carved a line across the country, and that line is temperature. North of that line, in

The 2024 dengue epidemic in Argentina has been deemed the largest dengue outbreak in the country's history, with a total of 215,885 cases reported from...

The 2024 European heatwaves began with an unusual spring heatwave and continued to intensify from June, resulting in the breaking of several regional temperature records...

For millions of Americans who live with migraines, the standard advice has long been the same: try a beta blocker, an antidepressant, an anti-seizure drug — med

Thailand will outlaw recreational cannabis before the end of 2024, Health Minister Cholnan Srikaew told Reuters on 29 February, while preserving access for authorised medical…

On January 15, 2024, a significant milestone was achieved in the field of health and technology as Noland Arbaugh, an American man with tetraplegia, became...

A forensics report by Rio de Janeiro's Forensic Medical Institute in Brazil has shed light on the tragic death of Swiftie Benevides, revealing that hyperthermia

For years, Mali has wrestled with malaria. Now, dengue fever is forcing its own reckoning. As of early December 2023, the country has recorded 600 cases and at

As of November 28, 2023, individuals in the United States can continue to access critical mental health support through the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline,...

Anthrax has struck Zambia, leaving four people dead and 335 others infected, according to reports from the Ministry of Health. The outbreak has prompted the imp

When Lars Schaade takes the helm at the Robert Koch Institute, he brings more than a title. He brings a decade of proximity to the institution's core mission. S

The approval of Zuranolone, branded as Zurzuvae, on August 15, 2023, did not come out of nowhere. It is the product of a specific scientific bet: that tinkering

Arizona’s emergency rooms are seeing a surge in heat-related cases as the state weathers a punishing heat wave that prompted Governor Katie Hobbs to declare a s

Record heat is closing wards, straining emergency services, and forcing governments across southern Europe to scramble. The Cerberus Heatwave, which began hamme

Malaysia's most decorated singer has quietly built a parallel career as a benefactor, channeling decades of commercial success into scholarships and rural healt

A female American crocodile, kept alone for years in a Costa Rican zoo, produced an egg containing a fully formed stillborn offspring. The embryo was not father

A groundbreaking discovery has been made in the field of reproductive biology, with the first-known case of facultative parthenogenesis, or "virgin birth," obse

The debris pile where the apartment building once stood in Davenport, Iowa, now measures in tons. That is the physical fact left behind after the May 28 collaps

A groundbreaking medical breakthrough has been achieved by Swiss scientists, who have successfully enabled a paralyzed man to walk naturally using electronic br