Fri 18 April 2025: Most bullying cases involving children now occur in online environments. The true extent of digital violence goes beyond mere numbers—it leaves lasting emotional wounds. WHAT IS DIGITAL VIOLENCE? Digital violence refers to children being exposed to harmful content, harassment, or bullying via the internet and digital platforms. This invisible threat behind the […]
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Wed 16 April 2025: WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says draft agreement shows multilateralism is ‘alive and well’. The members of the World Health Organization (WHO) have reached a landmark agreement on how to respond to future pandemics after more than three years of negotiations, the global health body has said. The draft agreement, drawn […]
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Tue 15 April 2025: The deaths are linked to antimicrobial resistance infections due to overuse or misuse of some medications. More than three million children, many of them from Southeast Asia and Africa, are believed to have lost their lives in 2022 due to infections that are resistant to antibiotics, according to a new research. […]
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Mon 14 April 2025: Patients with advanced skin cancer in England will be fast-tracked into a new cancer vaccine trial, the National Health Service (NHS) said Monday. The NHS said in a statement that the needle-free injection, administered for up to two years, works by enhancing the immune system’s response – helping it recognize, attack […]
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Sun 13 April 2025: Critical community initiatives that provide testing, food and support and HIV vaccine research have been dismantled. Johannesburg, South Africa – Last year, Mary* finally had the conversation she had been dreading for more than a decade. Mary has lived with HIV since 2008. But the 36-year-old has also carried the burden of […]
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Sat 12 April 2025: Indonesia has been developing an artificial intelligence (AI)-based malaria detection system that will use data from various places around the country to recognize distinct malaria parasite species, according to the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN). “This technology utilizes morpho-geometric feature extraction to identify the size and shape of infected blood […]
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Fri 11 April 2025: Poor hearing increases a person’s risk of developing heart failure, according to a study. Researchers suggest the psychological distress caused by hearing impairment plays a “notable” role. For the study, experts in China analysed UK Biobank data from 164,431 people who had completed tests designed to determine hearing ability. Of the […]
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Thu 10 April 2025: Australian health authorities have warned hundreds of thousands of people in Sydney to monitor for symptoms after a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak, local media reported on Thursday. At least six people have been hospitalized with symptoms of the potentially deadly disease as health authorities have yet to trace the source of the […]
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Wed 09 April 2025: US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., previously known for his vaccine skepticism, publicly supported the measles vaccine on Sunday, following the death of a second child. “The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine,” Kennedy said in a post on X. The US […]
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Image is for illustration purpose. Tue 08 April 2025: A deadly, highly antibiotic-resistant strain of Acinetobacter baumannii has been detected in a hospital in Terengganu, Malaysia. Scientists identified the strain as belonging to the globally prevalent GC2 lineage, posing a serious public health threat. Researchers analyzed 126 bacterial samples collected between 2011 and 2020, revealing strong resistance to […]
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