Sun 05 October 2025: Smartwatches and other wearable devices can feel almost magical. Strap on a Fitbit, Apple Watch or Samsung Gear and you’re suddenly presented with a stream of data generated by – and about – your body: step counts, heart rate, blood oxygen level, calories burned and more. Wearables offer tools that help […]
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Sun 05 October 2025: Three states ban the cough syrup after children die allegedly after consuming the product. Indian authorities say they are investigating whether contaminated cough syrup caused the deaths of nine children, all aged below five years, in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan since late August. The investigation was ordered by […]
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Fri 03 October 2025: The Ebola outbreak in Kasai Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is showing early signs of decline, though funding gaps and logistical challenges continue to hamper response efforts, health officials said Thursday. Patrick Abok, acting regional emergency director at the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa, […]
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Thu 02 October 2025: Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto on Monday defended his ambitious plan to provide free meals for children after some 6,000 cases of food poisoning, saying the percentage of those affected was small and the programme was still finding its footing. The food poisonings have sparked a public outcry with TV channels broadcasting images of children […]
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Sun 28 September 2025: The study examined health records of over 559,000 participants from the Million Veteran Program in the US and the UK Biobank databases. Participants aged between 56 and 72 were followed for 4 to 12 years, during which more than 14,000 were diagnosed with dementia. Observational analyses showed that people consuming 40 or more […]
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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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