The head of the World Health Organization has warned countries to prepare for more hantavirus cases after the outbreak onboard the MV Hondius, and thanked Spain for the “compassion and solidarity” it had shown by taking in the stricken cruise ship and evacuating its passengers and crew. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged countries to follow the…
Last week, the New York Times and Washington Post reported yet another troubling case of data suppression at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Studies of millions of vaccine recipients were completed by career scientists, peer-reviewed, and accepted by working pharmacovigilance journals; after political appointees declined to sign off, they were withdrawn. The agency commissioned…
Aerial view of the Kafue Rift southern boundary fault zone. The hot springs where researchers sampled gases lie in the green thickets Michael Daly The African continent may have begun tearing itself apart in a new location. Gases emerging from an arc of hot springs in Zambia appear to be coming from deep below Earth’s…
In November 2024, I booked a cruise for my wife, myself and our severely disabled son for this July. I’d booked well in advance to ensure an accessible cabin for my son. At home, he needs round-the-clock care from a rota of eight carers, so we made extra bookings for three to accompany him. Because…
More than 6,000 children living with obesity, including hundreds as young as four, have required treatment at specialist NHS weight-loss clinics, new figures reveal. NHS England data, published for the first time, underlines the scale of the growing childhood obesity crisis. Since the first Complications from Excess Weight clinic (CEW) opened in 2021, the NHS…
Hi, Carolyn. I’m having major spine surgery in a few weeks, and my husband will need to have chemo during the time I’m recovering from surgery and can’t drive. I have good friends who I know will help with the driving and other logistical issues. I haven’t told a couple of these people about the…
Singing, painting or visiting a gallery or museum helps people age more slowly, according to the latest study to link taking an active interest in art and culture with improved health. The findings are the first to show that both participating in arts activities and attending events, such as viewing an exhibition, lead to people…
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Medicaid expansion was associated with reductions in 1-year mortality among young adults with kidney failure. One-year mortality declined from 3.6% pre-expansion to 2.1% post-expansion among 19- to 23-year-olds. Policy changes around health insurance programs may affect survival for young adults with kidney failure, the authors suggested. Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was…
A Supreme Court justice, a defense secretary and an FBI director walk into a bar … If that sounds like the beginning of a joke, you’re close. It was the cold open for “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend, and the sketch wasn’t set in some generic D.C. watering hole but an actual local landmark:…
