Less than a year after becoming India’s first State to declare snakebite envenoming cases and deaths as a notifiable disease ...

Researchers gave psilocybin to two dozen religious clergy. Was it guided by science, religion, or some awkward combination?

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Over the course of two decades, China has built a public health aid program for the world, turbocharged by the pandemic. As ...

Calls for Israel to release director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital Israel’s raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital has been condemned amid demands to release director whose whereabouts are unknown.

US withdrawal from the WHO and of all foreign aid will have dire consequences for Africa. It’s time the continent took ...

Cases of bacterial sexually transmitted infections are on the rise worldwide. An international team led by the University of Zurich has now developed a new method for genome sequencing and discovered ...

A virus originally found in animals, mpox -- which causes the disease of the same name -- is now circulating in humans. Since 2022, it has been the cause of major epidemics spreading outside endemic ...

The USA is WHO's largest donor and its planned withdrawal from the organisation has prompted crisis planning during the ...

Midori Kato is the last original member of the cast of “Sazae-san,” a cartoon series that premiered in 1969 and never quite joined the modern world. Lena Schilling, the youngest lawmaker in ...

Jan. 6, 2025 — Tuberculosis (TB) is the world's biggest infectious disease killer with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) posing a particular threat to global health.