Thu 20 November 2025: The Department of Health’s National Essential Medicines List Committee (NEMLC) has approved the addition of the recently registered injectable lenacapavir to the Essential Medicines List (EML). The department said the decision aligns with the department’s mandate to ensure access to safe, effective, high-quality, and affordable medicines for all citizens in the […]
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Wed 19 November 2025: Cold weather health warnings have been activated across much of the UK as temperatures drop sharply in the year’s first major cold spell. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) on Monday placed the North East, North West and Yorkshire and the Humber under an amber cold health alert from midday on […]
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Wed 19 November 2025: NGO says Swiss food giant is ‘putting the health of babies at risk for profit’ by adding sugar to babyfood. Swiss food giant Nestle has been adding sugar to babyfood to help it stoke sales in Africa, Asia and Latin America – after cutting it from products sold in European markets, […]
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Tue 18 November 2025: A growing number of animals across the globe – including pets, livestock and marine species — are developing chronic diseases once considered primarily human health issues, according to a new study highlighting how environmental change is reshaping animal well-being. The research, published in Risk Analysis and led by Antonia Mataragka of […]
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Mon 17 November 2025: For decades, we’ve been told that weight loss is a matter of willpower: eat less, move more. But modern science has proven this isn’t actually the case. More on that in a moment. But first, let’s go back a few hundred thousand years to examine our early human ancestors. Because we can blame […]
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Mon 17 November 2025: Nine cases reported in Ethiopia’s Omo region, bordering conflict-wracked South Sudan, which has a fragile health system. Ethiopia has confirmed its first outbreak of Marburg virus disease, after nine cases were reported in the south of the country. World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday commended the Ethiopian […]
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Sun 16 November 2025: The Africa CDC said it had recorded about 300,000 confirmed and suspected cases of cholera so far in 2025, a rise over last year. Africa is experiencing its worst outbreak of cholera in the past 25 years, with Angola and Burundi seeing renewed surges that suggest active transmission of the disease, […]
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Sat 15 November 2025: The UN health agency warns that recent progress in tackling the disease is under threat due to a shortfall in critical aid. Tuberculosis deaths have fallen by 3 percent to 1.23 million people in 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. In its annual TB report published on Wednesday, the United […]
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Thu 13 November 2025: Drinking a single glass of sugar-sweetened soda every day may raise the risk of high blood pressure by nearly a third, according to a new study. A healthy individual who does not drink soda has about a 6% risk of developing high blood pressure, which increases to 8% with daily consumption, research published in the […]
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Thu 13 November 2025: Health officials are keeping a close eye on a flu strain that has sparked unusually early and severe outbreaks in Canada, the UK, and Japan, an NBC report said Wednesday, raising concerns about its potential impact in the US. The strain, a mutated version of H3N2 first detected this summer, has […]
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