Category: 7. Health

A representational image depicts a human heart. — Unsplash/File A blood test to detect the biological age of organs can predict the risk of health conditions years, or even decades later in a finding made by a team led by researchers at University College London… Continue Reading

A man crosses a main road as pedestrians walk along the footpath in central Sydney, Australia. — Reuters/File Nearly 60% of all adults and a third of all children in the world will be overweight or obese by 2050 unless governments take action, a large new study… Continue Reading

Plus size people are seen at work in bright, open office workplace. — Unsplash/File LONDON: A new study warns that obesity and overweight rates are rapidly increasing worldwide, with more than half of all adults and nearly a third of children and young people… Continue Reading

A child receives a polio vaccination during an anti-polio campaign on the outskirts of Jalalabad, March 16, 2015. — Reuters  LONDON: The eradication of polio as a global health threat may be delayed unless US funding cuts — potentially totaling hundreds of… Continue Reading

A Ugandan doctor vaccinates the contact of a patient who tested positive during the launch of the vaccination for the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus with a trial vaccine at the Mulago Guest House (Isolation centre) in Kampala, Uganda, February 3, 2025. —… Continue Reading

A girl receives polio vaccine drops, during an anti-polio campaign, in a low-income neighborhood in Karachi, on July 20, 2020. — Reuters Thatta reports latest polio case, says Pakistan Polio Programme. Two other cases have been reported from Punjab, KP. 2024 saw 74… Continue Reading

A health worker administers polio drops to a child during a door-to-door vaccination campaign amidst heavy snow in the Bakwali-Surgan area of AJK’s Neelum Valley, on February 4, 2025. — AFP Polio cases confirmed in Qambar, Mandi Bahauddin. Third case in Sindh,… Continue Reading

Mpox vaccine bottles stand in a package, at Federal Medical Center in Abuja, Nigeria November 18, 2024. — Reuters The mpox outbreak is still a public health emergency, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday. The WHO, which first declared the emergency in… Continue Reading

A sign reading “measles testing” is seen as an outbreak in Gaines County, Texas, has raised concerns over its spread to other parts of the state, in Seminole, Texas, US, February 25, 2025. — Reuters HOUSTON: An unvaccinated child in Texas has died from measles,… Continue Reading