Thu 11 December 2025: Mexico’s Congress gave final approval on Wednesday to a bill establishing penalties of up to eight years in prison for selling electronic cigarettes and similar products. Mexico is now poised to join a handful of countries with laws imposing criminal penalties related to vaping. Members of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Morena party had argued the measure would […]
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Tue 09 December 2025: The HIV Stigma Index 2.0 report launched on Wednesday reveals that, despite progress since the 2014 study, significant efforts are still needed to reduce stigma, improve healthcare experiences, and support the mental well-being of people living with HIV (PLHIV). Today, the PLHIV sector, led by the National Association of People Living […]
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Tue 09 December 2025: Childhood is being reshaped at a historic scale as digital platforms, artificial intelligence, and global connectivity redefine how young people learn, socialize, and develop, experts told Anadolu. Speaking on the sidelines of the TRT International Children’s Media Summit 2025, held on Saturday in Istanbul, policymakers, academics, and media leaders stressed that […]
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Tue 09 December 2025: Air pollution has been linked to thousands of preventable deaths in the European Union, despite a “significant” improvement in air quality, according to a report. A new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) found that between 2005 and 2023, premature deaths attributable to fine particulate matter fell by 57 percent, […]
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Sun 07 December 2025: Infertility affects one in six people of reproductive age worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, as it released a new global guideline that outlines recommendations for improving access to prevention, diagnosis and treatment. The WHO said access to fertility care remains “severely limited” despite the scale of the issue. In many countries, […]
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Wed 03 December 2025: The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday that 1.3 million people were infected with HIV in 2024, stressing a sharp stagnation in global prevention efforts as foreign aid cuts disrupt treatment, testing, and community-led programs worldwide. Marking World AIDS Day, the WHO said the global AIDS response has reached a […]
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Tue 02 December 2025: Director-General Ghebreyesus mentioned that obesity, a chronic and recurring disease, leads to heart diseases, diabetes, and some types of cancer. He highlighted that in 2024, obesity was linked to 3.7 million deaths globally, placing significant pressure on health systems and economies. Ghebreyesus said, “In recent years, a class of drugs initially developed for diabetes […]
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Tue 02 December 2025: Drinking alcohol is known to be harmful to people’s health. It’s also known to be harmful in other ways. For example, men experience more harm such as aggression, accidents, and injury, from their own drinking than do women. But when a man drinks, the women and children closest to him often pay a price too. […]
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Sat 29 November 2025: UNAIDS says millions across the world lost access to treatment and preventive care due to financial shortfalls. The United Nations agency for combating AIDS has announced that global funding disruptions for treatment and prevention programmes are leaving millions of people without access to care. In a report released on Tuesday, UNAIDS […]
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Fri 28 November 2025: Rising cases of chronic stress could be down to a mismatch between modern living and our own biology, according to a new study. Colin Shaw from the University of Zurich in Switzerland and Daniel Longman from Loughborough University in the UK. They pulled together a wealth of evidence that suggests our […]
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