Category: 6. Health

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The UK’s advertising watchdog has cracked down on products being promoted online that it says falsely promise to…

New Bayesian evidence from eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo shows that mpox clade Ib often develops more slowly than assumed, prompting calls to rethink exposure monitoring and postexposure vaccination strategies.

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The Israel Ministry of Health reports an 11-month-old baby with no underlying illnesses, who had not yet been vaccinated, died today due to complications of measles.

Due to his condition, the baby was transferred about a week ago from the North…

Heavy consumption of energy drinks may raise the risk of heart disease and pose a serious risk of stroke, doctors have warned.

Millions of people worldwide regularly drink the products, which are non-alcoholic and typically contain more than 150mg…

New interdisciplinary evidence shows how a mid-14th-century volcanic cooling reshaped Mediterranean food security, redirected grain ships from the Black Sea, and inadvertently opened the door to one of history’s deadliest…

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted infection, is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, according to new data from its Enhanced Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme (EGASP), which…

Kaleigh Harrison

Engineered clay is finding new relevance in environmental risk mitigation, thanks to decades of research led by Dr. Timothy Phillips at Texas A&M University. Originally studied for…

Connecticut health officials continue to call out against the latest decision from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine panel to overturn a longstanding recommendation on hepatitis B…