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Air Pollution From Fossil Fuels Kills 5 Million People Every Year: Study

The disease burden due to air pollution is now estimated to be on par with other major global health risks.

International Business Times UK

SNP motion expresses 'grave concern' of Gaza war impact on pregnant women and babies

AN SNP MSP has tabled a Holyrood motion expressing ‘grave concern’ about the impact of the war in Gaza on pregnant women, babies and…

The National (Scotland)

African company to start making vaginal rings that protect against HIV

A South African company will make vaginal rings that protect against HIV, which AIDS experts say should eventually make them cheaper and more readily available

The Independent UK

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China's respiratory outbreak is 'expected' and not caused by new virus

Evidence suggests the outbreak is being caused by several known pathogens, the World Health Organization said.

LiveScience

India Seeks Bigger Foothold In Pharmaceutical Industry As Drugmakers Look Beyond China

India's global market share in the pharmaceutical business is expected to grow and is estimated to exceed $130 billion by 2030.

International Business Times

Deaths Due To Disease In Gaza May Surpass Deaths From War, says WHO

Lack of clean drinking water, toilets, and clean food could lead to typhoid and cholera outbreaks.

International Business Times UK

Child respiratory sickness overloads China’s paediatric clinics – reports

Authorities appeal for calm, saying spike is due to end of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions

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Qatar mediator says latest prisoner release would comprise 16 children and 14 women – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Lockdown ‘would have been much later’ without decision to test in hospitals

Professor Dame Jenny Harries has been giving evidence to the UK Covid-19 public inquiry.

The Independent UK

Michael Gove suggests to Covid-19 inquiry that virus was ‘man-made’

Hugo Keith KC shut the Levelling Up Secretary down, saying the ‘divisive’ issue is not part of the inquiry’s terms of reference.

The Independent UK

Umaru Shehu: Nigerian public health giant who played a major role in polio eradication

Professor Emeritus Umaru Shehu, who died on 2 October 2023, was born in Yerwa (Maiduguri), Nigeria, in 1930. Widely regarded as one of the country’s early leaders in public health policy and practice, he was the first public health physician in the northern region and remained active all his life.

The Conversation

Disease could kill more in Gaza than bombs, WHO says amid Israeli siege

Shattered healthcare and sanitation systems must be restored in Gaza, says World Health Organization.

Al Jazeera

China is battling a wave of respiratory illness in children. Scientists are rushing to find out why

Experts say ‘no evidence’ yet to suggest a new virus is to blame for reports of ‘undiagnosed pneumonia’

The Independent UK

How does Australia's health system stack up internationally? Not bad, if you're willing to wait for it

When things are going bad in the health system, we are reassured we’ve got one of the best health systems in the world. But we’re rarely told where we actually stand relative to others.

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Evening Standard

How worried should we be about China's mysterious 'pneumonia' surge?

Sharp rise in hospital admissions among children has been attributed to flu and other 'known' viruses - but experts say more information is needed

Inverse

27 Years Later, The Quirkiest Starship In Sci-Fi History Just Got a Major Upgrade

The TARDIS on 'Doctor Who' hasn't been this big inside since 1996. But what does it mean?

Guitar World

“Geordie was a true inventor of a massive sound that has influenced so damn many of us”: Killing Joke guitarist Geordie Walker has died, aged 64

Tributes pour in for the post-punk trailblazer whose influence was felt far and wide across rock and metal, with the likes of Metallica and Nirvana indebted to his vision for guitar

The Guardian - UK

‘I blubbed inconsolably for 20 minutes’ – your favourite ever Doctor Who moments

Rose Tyler’s devastating farewell. Terrifying giant maggots. Vincent Van Gogh’s heart-stopping moment. Readers share their best memories from 60 years of travelling in the Tardis

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The Conversation

How worried should we be about the pneumonia outbreak in China?

Reports of a surge in pneumonia-like illness primarily affecting children in northern China have captured our attention. The last time we heard about a mysterious respiratory outbreak leading to overcrowding in hospitals was the beginning of the COVID pandemic, so it’s not entirely surprising this has caused some alarm.

Evening Standard

Respiratory infection clusters in China not caused by novel virus, says WHO

Mysterious childhood illnesses sweeping through China are not thought to be a new dangerous virus, the World Health Organization has said.

The Independent UK

China says a surge in respiratory illnesses is caused by flu and other known pathogens

China’s health ministry says a surge in respiratory illnesses across the country that has drawn the attention of the World Health Organization is caused by the flu and other known pathogens and not by a novel virus

Dynamite News

India monitoring respiratory illness cases in China, says situation not alarming

The central government reiterated on Sunday that it was closely monitoring the surge in respiratory illness in children in parts of China. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Hindu

Centre asks States to watch cases of respiratory illness

Union Health Ministry on Sunday directed State governments to ensure that the trends of influenza like illness (ILI) and severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) be closely monitored by the district and State surveillance units of Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP), particularly of children and adolescents.

International Business Times

Heat, Disease, Air Pollution: How Climate Change Impacts Health

Growing calls for the world to come to grips with the many ways that global warming affects human health have prompted the first day dedicated to the issue at crunch UN climate talks starting next week.

The Guardian - UK

Doctor Who: The Star Beast – 60th anniversary special recap

David Tennant is back with his ‘best friend’ Donna and an adorable crash-landed alien played by Miriam Margolyes. Allons-y!

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