Diabetes now affects 1 in 6 pregnancies: What you need to know
This Friday, for World Diabetes Day, the UN is highlighting how the disease affects pregnancy, in line with this year’s global theme of managing diabetes...
Israeli strike on hospital ‘further cripples’ Gaza’s fragile health system
Several staff members, including two nurses, were injured in the strike on the Kuwaiti Field Hospital in Khan Younis according to Gaza’s Ministry of...
A woman dies from cervical cancer every two minutes, UN says
“I felt betrayed by my body,” she told the World Health Organization (WHO) as part of an initiative to eliminate the disease. Cervical cancer, the fourth most...
World News in Brief: Cholera surges worldwide, DR Congo update, WHO leads global health...
The UN health agency registered almost 810,000 cases and 5,900 deaths from the preventable disease in 2024; that’s about 50 per cent higher than...
Afghanistan: 20 years of steady education progress ‘almost wiped out’
Afghanistan is currently the only country in the world where secondary and higher education is strictly forbidden to women and girls over age 12.The...
World News in Brief: Cambodia-Thailand ceasefire, bloody weekend in Ukraine, stop hepatitis deaths
The deal was announced on Monday by Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, current chair of the Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN, and was due to...
Gaza: UN health agency urges rapid scale-up of medevacs as thousands remain in critical...
Speaking from Gaza, WHO Representative Rik Peeperkorn described a scene of widespread destruction, overwhelmed medical facilities and growing mental health needs, as the population...
Stolen Past: Inside the fight against illicit antiquities trafficking
Last year alone, more than 37,000 cultural objects – including archaeological artifacts, works of art, coins, and musical instruments – were seized during an...
World Health Day: Focusing on women’s physical and mental health around the world
Close to 300,000 women continue to die during pregnancy or childbirth each year. More than two million babies die in their first month of...
UN health agency approves ‘groundbreaking’ TB test
The test - called Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra – uses molecular analysis to detect the genetic markers of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes TB,...
WHO launches $1.5 billion appeal to tackle global health crises
In response, the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for $1.5 billion through its 2025 Health Emergency Appeal, to deliver life-saving health interventions worldwide.The appeal,...
New recombinant mpox strain detected in UK and India, WHO urges continued monitoring
WHO confirmed that two cases of the recombinant strain – combining genomic elements of clades Ib and IIb of the monkeypox virus (MPXV) –...
Catch-up immunization campaign ‘a lifeline’ for Gaza’s children
Estimates indicate one in five children under three are either zero-dose or have missed vaccinations because of the war, putting them at risk of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks.The catch-up campaign aims...
Make midwives universally accessible and save millions of lives, WHO urges
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), this sort of large-scale life-saving is possible, if midwifery care is universally accessible and consistent with international...
Sudan conflict triggers regional health crisis, warns WHO
“The ongoing conflict and displacement, in addition to fragile health infrastructure and limited access to affected populations, pose a risk of mass disease transmission,”...
WHO warns of a health financing emergency
Speaking at the regular Friday press briefing in Geneva for humanitarian agencies, she warned that as wealthier nations make deep spending cuts, both international...
World News in Brief: UNICEF mpox response in DR Congo, ‘unprecedented’ threat to Sudan’s...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has recorded more than 21,000 suspected cases of the viral disease, including over 5,000 confirmed cases and...
UN to continue Gaza vaccination campaign against polio
WHO said in a news release that more than 591,000 children under 10 years old will receive the vaccine to protect them from the...
Ceasefire offers ‘lifeline’ but Gaza hospitals remain in ruins
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus welcomed the halt in hostilities but said “the crisis is far from over and the needs are immense.”He highlighted the toll...
How to raise rational children in our modern world
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In our modern secular world, and with the many things that kids are taught at school and over which parents have...
Scientifically unchaining the power of the turbulence code that cracked the universe formation –...
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Scientists and engineers have long known that cracking the code of turbulence would be highly gratifying, but they did not know...
How to raise rational children in our modern world – Science180
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In our modern secular world, and with the many things that kids are taught at school and over which parents have...
Scientific Discovery Proved Biblical Creation Timeline and Destroyed Evolution and the Big Bang Theory
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Dr. Nathanael-Israel Israel of Science180.com unveils a 12-year study on the mathematical evidence of God’s existence
Dr. Nathanael-Israel Israel has proven mathematically...
Haiti: Education in jeopardy as gang violence continues
The continued surge in armed gang activity, particularly in the capital, Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas, has put immense pressure on local communities and their...
