Sun 21 April 2024: Britain is set to impose tough measures to stub out smoking, which has emerged as one of the biggest causes of cancer deaths in the country. Parliament approved the government’s “historic” plans to create a “smoke-free” generation on Tuesday in a bid to reduce the number of people dying from smoking-related […]
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Sat 20 April 2024: “I drink borax!” proclaims the smiling TikToker. Holding up a box of the laundry additive, she rhymes off a list of its supposed health benefits: “Balances testosterone and estrogen. It’s a powerhouse anti-inflammatory…. It’s amazing for arthritis, osteoporosis…. And obviously it’s great for your gut health.” Videos like these prompted health authorities […]
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Sat 20 April 2024: In March, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that childhood obesity had increased 2.5-fold over the past 30 years, and the number of overweight children under 5 years of age had reached a shocking 37 million in 2022, with the majority of them living in countries with low and middle income. […]
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Fri 19 April 2024: Brexit is making an already grim situation worse for medicine shortages in the UK, according to a research released on Thursday by a health think tank, Anadolu Agency reported. The study, written by Mark Dayan, the Nuffield Trust’s head for the Brexit initiative, presents a concerning image of a healthcare system […]
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Image for representative purpose. Mon 15 April 2024: All of us experience ups and downs in our lives. Some traumatic experiences, illnesses, accidents, and breakups may have long-term consequences for our behaviour and mental processes. But is there any way to negate negative experiences from the past and convert them into useful life lessons that […]
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Mon 15 April 2024: The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has recalled two batches of Benylin pediatric cough syrup. On 10 April 2024, the Nigerian National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) reported to the concerned party that a batch of Benylin paediatric cough syrup had high levels of diethylene […]
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Fri 12 April 2024: The deaths of over 300 children in Africa and Asia in 2023 prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to warn about the use of “substandard and falsified” medical products. The organisation called for more efforts to protect children from contaminated medicine. Toxicologists Winston Morgan and Shazma Bashir unpack the story. What caused the WHO to […]
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Wed 10 April 2024: The evidence behind medical intervention for youth questioning their gender is “remarkably weak”, with some doctors abandoning “normal clinical approaches” to prescribe hormones to teens, a landmark review in the United Kingdom has found. The long-term health effects of masculinising and feminising hormones on teens are “limited and need to be […]
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Tue 09 April 2024: The spread of bird flu to an increasing number of species and its widening geographic reach have raised the risks of humans being infected by the virus, the head of the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Thursday. Monique Eloit’s comments come after the U.S. government reported cases of […]
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Mon 08 April 2024: Pope Francis has denounced abortions and the carrying of children by surrogate mothers as grave offences against human dignity. In a declaration of principles published by the Vatican on Monday, the head of the Catholic Church also described gender reassignment and “gender theory” as offences against what he said was the […]
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