Sat 27 September 2025: A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool is capable of predicting an individual’s risk of more than 1,000 diseases, in some instances projecting outcomes decades into the future, according to a recent study published on Wednesday. The study, published in the scientific journal Nature, revealed that a modified language model called Delphi-2M […]
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Wed 24 September 2025: US President Donald Trump has linked childhood vaccine use and paracetamol use by pregnant women to autism. The World Health Organization (WHO) has debunked United States President Donald Trump’s claim of a possible link between autism and the use of paracetamol during pregnancy. In a statement on Wednesday, the organisation emphasised that there […]
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Sun 17 August 2025: Up to one-third of Britain’s family doctors, the backbone of the National Health Service (NHS), may consider leaving direct patient care within five years, mainly due to burnout and job dissatisfaction, according to a University of Manchester study on Tuesday. The research, published in Frontiers in Public Health and funded by […]
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Sat 16 August 2025: Limited access to vaccines and funding gaps are the challenges hampering the fight against mpox in Africa, an official of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday, as the continent marked a year since mpox was declared a public health emergency of international concern. Patrick Otim, program manager of emergency response […]
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Thu 14 August 2025: Drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro (known as semaglutide and tirzepatide) have changed the way clinicians manage diabetes and obesity around the world. Collectively known as GLP-1 agonists, these drugs mimic the hormone GLP-1. This limits both hunger and interest in food, helping users lose weight, and helps control blood sugar […]
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Wed 13 August 2025: On August 8, Patrick Joseph White, a 30-year-old man, opened fire at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, aiming to protest COVID-19 vaccines, U.S. authorities reported on Tuesday. Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said that documents found at White’s home “expressed the shooter’s […]
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Tue 12 August 2025: A study led by the University of Queensland discovered that Australian skinks have evolved molecular defenses to protect their muscles from deadly snake venom, which provides insights into how to treat snakebites in humans. The research, published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, described the skinks’ adaptations as “evolution at its most ingenious,” according […]
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Mon 11 August 2025: Mosquito-borne viral fever chikungunya cases are rising, and since the beginning of this year some 240,000 infections have been recorded across the world, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The virus cases were recorded until July in 16 countries and regions across the Americas, Africa, Asia, […]
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Thu 07 August 2025: We wash our hands, sanitise shopping trolleys and wipe down cafe tables. But what about our phones? We touch these devices dozens of times a day, and take them everywhere from the kitchen to the dining table, and even the bathroom. Phones can be contaminated with many kinds of potential germs. When was […]
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Fri 01 August 2025: Researchers based at the University of Tokyo and Shinshu University have developed a new skin cancer treatment drug based on a genetically modified virus, public broadcaster NHK reported Thursday. Cancer “viral therapy” uses the genetically engineered virus to attack cancer cells in skin cancer patients by replicating only in cancer cells. […]
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