Demonstrators have clashed with police during a protest against worsening air pollutionfrom a phosphate-processing plant in the southern Tunisian city of Gabes, Read MoreContinue Reading
Uruguay’s senate has passed a law decriminalizing euthanasia, putting the South American nation among a handful of other countries where seriously ill patients can legally obtain help to end their lives, Read MoreContinue Reading
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For patients with knee osteoarthritis, aerobic activities such as walking, cycling, or swimming are likely to be the best exercise for improving pain, function, gait performance, and quality of life, finds a study published in The BMJ…Read MoreContinue Reading
Neurologists at Florida Atlantic University have launched a new research tool combining focused ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging to fight Alzheimer’s., Read MoreContinue Reading
The government shutdown continues with no end in sight, and while it theoretically should not affect entitlement programs, the lapse of some related authorizations — like for Medicare telehealth programs — is leaving some doctors and patients high and dry. Meanwhile, the FDA quietly approved a new generic abortion pill…ReadContinue Reading
In the wake of massive U.S. cuts to foreign aid, the tiny country of Lesotho in southern Africa faces deep uncertainty and worry over its HIV-positive residents, Read MoreContinue Reading
For the first time in more than a decade, the number of states with rates of obesity of 35% or more dropped, Read MoreContinue Reading
On 17 January 2024, public health experts including Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), held a roundtable titled “Preparing for Disease X” at the World Economic Forum of Davos (WEF). In light of the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the panel discussed what had failed in theContinue Reading
Lyndsey Telford BBC News NI BBC Health minister Mike Nesbitt said he was determined to get the plan out ahead of last years plan, which was published in November. The health minister has defended his department’s timeline for initiating a plan to deal with winter pressures on the health service.Continue Reading
New York health officials have confirmed the state’s first locally acquired case of chikungunya virus and the first such case in the country in six years, Read MoreContinue Reading
An estimated 31,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers have gone on strike to demand better wages and staffing, Read MoreContinue Reading
New York health officials have confirmed the first case of locally acquired chikungunya virus in the state and the first in the country in more than five years., Read MoreContinue Reading