Category: 6. Health

WHO press release

18 December 2025 — The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Brazil for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, making it the most populous country in the Americas to achieve this historic milestone….

In early May 2025, NASA and partner satellites spotted a towering cloud of wildfire smoke rising over central Saskatchewan. 

The huge plume, nicknamed a smoke monster, grew from intense fires burning in and around Narrow Hills Provincial Park.

Scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz have discovered that while brain neuron changes, including cell loss, may begin in early life, a drug long-approved for other conditions might be repurposed to slow this damage,…

This week, The Pharmaceutical Journal has been reflecting on the past year, considering how the pharmacy sector has grown and presenting the headline numbers from our coverage across pharmacy in 2025.

However, healthcare does not slow down as the…

A multistage malaria vaccine showed encouraging levels of protection against controlled human malaria infection (CHMI) in Malian adults with lifelong exposure to the causative parasite, according to a new 

Achieving remission from prediabetes appears to substantially lower the risk of cardiovascular death or hospitalization for…

As the natural world rapidly changes, humanity relies on having reliable, accurate predictions of its behavior to minimize harmful impacts on society and the ecosystems that sustain it.

Ecosystems of all scales are becoming more and…

On December 10, CIMMYT headquarters hosted the launch of the 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission Report on Healthy, Sustainable, and Just Food Systems, the most comprehensive global scientific assessment to date on the role of food…