Mon 20 April 2026: Baby food brand HiPP recalls products after Austrian police say a tampered jar contained rodent poison. Baby food manufacturer HiPP has issued a product recall in Austria after authorities reported the presence of rat poison in one of the company’s jars. HiPP said on Sunday that it had pulled all baby […]
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Sun 19 April 2026: Rubber glove makers have raised prices and warned of production cuts as the Iran war chokes supplies of key inputs, raising concerns for the healthcare sector. Glove makers have already hiked the average price of synthetic rubber gloves by around 40 percent to as high as $29 for a box of […]
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Fri 17 April 2026: Five widely used AI chatbots frequently produced problematic answers to health and medical questions, a new study revealed. Researchers in a study published in the BMJ Open on Tuesday tested Gemini, DeepSeek, Meta AI, ChatGPT and Grok with 50 prompts across five misinformation-prone categories. These included cancer, vaccines, stem cells, nutrition […]
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Tue 14 April 2026: The UK government has announced plans to eliminate high-sugar and deep-fried foods from school menus as part of a comprehensive reform aimed at combating childhood obesity and enhancing nutrition. The reforms, announced by the Department for Education on Monday, would update school food standards for the first time in more than a decade. Schools would […]
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Tue 07 April 2026: Thousands of resident doctors across England began a six-day strike Tuesday in a long-running dispute with the government over pay. The walkout, the 15th round of industrial action, started at 7 am local time (0600GMT) and is set to continue until 7 am on Monday, April 13. The British Medical Association, […]
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Tue 31 March 2026: As early as the 1880s, there was evidence that smoking tobacco damaged your lungs. But it took almost 100 years to definitively show that smoking causes lung cancer. So, what about vapes? Until now, most research that has looked at the cancer risk for people using vapes, also known as electronic or e-cigarettes, has mainly […]
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Thu 19 March 2026: Heavy social media use has contributed to ‘worrying decline’ in wellbeing in Western countries, World Happiness Report says. Social media has played a large role in declining happiness among young people in Western countries, a United Nations-backed report has found. Heavy social media use partly explains a “worrying decline” in the […]
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Wed 18 March 2026: It’s called the infinite scroll – a design feature on social media, shopping, video and many other apps that continuously loads content as you reach the bottom of the page. Handy? Yes. Clever? Also yes. Devious? Very much so. The infinite scroll is likely the main reason you find it so hard to […]
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Tue 17 March 2026: Google has removed an artificial intelligence-powered search feature that offered crowdsourced health advice from non-experts, The Guardian reported on Monday. The company had said the feature, “What People Suggest,” which shared tips from strangers, demonstrated “the potential of AI to transform health outcomes across the globe.” However, Google has since quietly […]
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Sun 15 March 2026: China on Friday approved its first implantable brain-computer interface device, marking a key milestone in the country’s push to compete with US firms in neurotechnology. China’s drug regulator, the National Medical Products Administration, said it approved a brain implant developed by Neuracle Medical Technology for adult patients with partial paralysis caused […]
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