Sun 21 January 2024: The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed encouraging statistics indicating a substantial reduction in global tobacco users, now standing at 1.25 bn individuals, or one in five adults. This marks a significant improvement from the year 2000 when one in three adults were tobacco users, highlighting a positive trend in the fight against […]
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Wed 17 January 2024: The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is helping 13 nations in eastern and southern Africa deal with one of the worst cholera outbreaks in years, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday. Since the beginning of the year, UNICEF has documented over 200,000 cases of cholera, with over 3,000 deaths in eastern and […]
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Wed 17 January 2024: Everyone seems to have a different opinion when it comes to how often towels and bed sheets should be washed. While many people might wonder whether days or weeks is best, in one survey from the United Kingdom, almost half of single men reported not washing their sheets for up to four months at […]
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A researcher takes samples from a bat’s mouth inside Sai Yok National Park in Kanchanaburi province, west of Bangkok. [FILE: Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo] Sun 14 January 2024: A recently identified bat virus that can infect humans has raised concerned about zoonotic transmission in Thailand. The controversial research group behind this discovery, EcoHealth Alliance, previously […]
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Fri 12 January 2024: At every moment, your body’s internal organs are sending signals to your brain. You’ll be mostly unaware of them, but sometimes they cut through: for example when you’re hungry, or when you need to go to the bathroom. Our ability to tap into these hidden signals is called interoception – sometimes […]
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Thu 11 January 2024: On Wednesday, January 10, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that the most common variant of the coronavirus, COVID-19, was the cause of an increase in cases last month during Christmas get-togethers worldwide. The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stated that December had about 10,000 recorded deaths. […]
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Tue 09 January 2024: The 21st century has seen a massive expansion in the ways that people can consume tobacco and nicotine. Innovative new products include electronic nicotine delivery systems (“ENDS” or e-cigarettes) and heat-not-burn (HnB) products. One of the challenges this has thrown up is the tax rates on these products. Combustible tobacco products […]
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Thu 04 January 2024: Zambia is in talks with the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners on acquiring cholera vaccines as the waterborne disease rages on in the southern African nation, state media reported on Wednesday. Roma Chilengi, director-general of the Zambia National Public Health Institute, said the government has been in talks with […]
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Mon 01 January 2024: A case of the chronic wasting disease in Yellowstone National Park has raised concerns of spread to humans. In what scientists call a “slow-moving disaster”, a “zombie deer disease” is spreading across the United States after a case was detected in Yellowstone National Park. The lethal disease has no cure and […]
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Wed 27 December 2023: A new coronavirus subvariant JN.1 is spreading fast in the United States, and is now accounting for nearly half of the latest COVID-19 cases in the country, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). JN.1 is currently the fastest growing variant and the dominant one in the […]
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