The chairmen of five key Senate committees on Thursday warned the chief executives of major convenience stores and wholesalers to stop sales of illicit flavored vaping products that they called “widespread violations of federal law.” The senators voiced their concerns in letters to the companies, amplifying the frustration among some lawmakers in Congress over the […]
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Israeli Forces Search Nasser Hospital in Gaza for Remains of Hostages
Israeli special forces were combing southern Gaza’s largest hospital in search of hostages’ remains on Friday, as Gazan officials announced that a power outage at the medical center had caused the deaths of five Palestinians in the critical care unit. While the raid has left the hospital, Nasser Medical Center, barely functional at a time […]
Read MoreF.D.A. Warned of Mental Side Effects from Asthma Drug, Singulair. Few Were Told.
In early 2020, the Food and Drug Administration responded to decades of escalating concerns about a commonly prescribed drug for asthma and allergies by deploying one of its most potent tools: a stark warning on the drug’s label that it could cause aggression, agitation and even suicidal thoughts. The agency’s label, which was primarily aimed […]
Read MoreWe Need a Global Immune System to Stop Future Public Health Crises
The thing that has surprised me most since I began my job leading foreign assistance for global health at the U.S. Agency for International Development is how much emergencies have defined my work. The bureau I oversee focuses on reducing the global burden of mortality and disease and on protecting the United States from health […]
Read More‘We Are All Sick’: Infectious Diseases Spread Across Gaza
Infectious diseases are ravaging the people of the Gaza Strip, the World Health Organization said Monday, as more people flee to overcrowded shelters in the south where dire conditions and a scarcity of food and clean water have set off a public health crisis. Limited sanitation facilities and overcrowding in shelters are causing the spread […]
Read MoreClimate Change Drives New Cases of Malaria, Complicating Efforts to Fight the Disease
There were an estimated 249 million cases of malaria around the globe last year, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, significantly more than before the Covid-19 pandemic and an increase of five million over 2021. Malaria remains a top killer of children. Those new cases were concentrated in just five countries: Pakistan, Nigeria, Uganda, […]
Read MoreClimate Change Drives New Cases of Malaria, Complicating Efforts to Fight the Disease
There were an estimated 249 million cases of malaria around the globe last year, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, significantly more than before the Covid-19 pandemic and an increase of five million over 2021. Malaria remains a top killer of children. Those new cases were concentrated in just five countries: Pakistan, Nigeria, Uganda, […]
Read MoreEgypt Wiped Out Hepatitis C. Now It Is Trying to Help the Rest of Africa.
For seven years, Sulemana Musah put almost every bit of money that came his way into his war with hepatitis C. His student loans for graduate school, his salary from his job as a high school teacher and the cash he earned from a side gig selling yams all went to tests and medicines to […]
Read MoreIllness Surge in China Is Not From a Novel Pathogen, Data Suggests
The World Health Organization said that China had shared data about a recent surge in respiratory illnesses in children, one day after the agency said it was seeking information about the possibility of undiagnosed pneumonia cases there. The Chinese data indicated “no detection of any unusual or novel pathogens,” according to a W.H.O. statement on […]
Read MoreW.H.O. Asks China for Details on Surge of Respiratory Illness in Children
The World Health Organization has formally requested that China share detailed information about a recent increase in respiratory illnesses, citing unconfirmed media reports of undiagnosed pneumonia in children. China has been reporting a jump in respiratory illnesses for months. Chinese media reports have described long lines at pediatric hospitals, and doctors have said that this […]
Read MoreA Crisis at Gaza’s Hospitals, and More
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Read MoreWhy We’re Still Breathing Dirty Indoor Air
In early 2020, the world scrubbed down surfaces, washed hands and sneezed into elbows, desperate to avoid infection with a new coronavirus. But the threat was not really lying on countertops and doorknobs. The virus was wafting through the air, set adrift in coughs and conversation, even in song. The pandemic raged for six months […]
Read MoreInside the Desperate Effort to Evacuate Young Cancer Patients From Gaza
They are some of the most vulnerable in Gaza. The youngest is not even a year old; the oldest is 14. All are battling lymphoma, leukemia and tumors that doctors said could kill them if left untreated. Over the past 10 days, 21 children with cancer have been evacuated from Gaza to hospitals in Egypt […]
Read MoreThird Communications Blackout Hits Gaza Amid Heavy Strikes
The Israeli military announced that its forces had fully encircled Gaza City and were carrying out “a significant operation” in the Gaza Strip late Sunday, as the entire enclave was plunged into the same kind of widespread communications blackout that cut it off from the world during Israel’s initial ground invasion 10 days ago. “At […]
Read MoreThird Communications Blackout Hits Gaza
Gaza was plunged into a communications blackout on Sunday for the third time in 10 days, again leaving its people without access to internet or phone services as night fell and Israel’s heavy bombardment of the enclave continued. The widespread blackout began shortly before sunset, around 4:20 p.m. local time, according to NetBlocks, an internet […]
Read MoreDeal Lays Groundwork for Aid to Reach Desperate Gazans, Officials Say
On one side of the border crossing between Egypt and Gaza sit more than 100 trucks packed with desperately needed food, water and medical supplies. On the other wait more than 2 million Gazans now scraping by on dwindling stocks of basic human necessities. Between them stand a series of locked gates and fences topped […]
Read MoreGaza’s Hospitals Face ‘Impossible’ Choices With Israel Evacuation Order
Hundreds of people injured in Israeli airstrikes are streaming into hospitals in Gaza, transported by overfilled ambulances and sharing bloodied gurneys at the entrances. Workers and bystanders rush to carry the victims inside, where only the most critically wounded are allowed to stay, and the rest are sent home. On Friday, Israel ordered hospitals in […]
Read MoreThe climate crisis is also a health crisis
Humankind has never been better at fighting diseases. Researchers are coming up with new vaccines and treatments at an astounding speed. But climate change is making public health gains a lot harder to achieve and undoing some of the world’s hard-earned progress. Consider the mosquito, which kills more humans than any other creature. Until very […]
Read MoreMosquitoes Are a Growing Public Health Threat, Reversing Years of Progress
Along hundreds of miles of Lake Victoria’s shoreline in Kenya, a squadron of young scientists and an army of volunteers are waging an all-out war on a creature that threatens the health of more people than any other on earth: the mosquito. They are testing new insecticides and ingenious new ways to deliver them. They […]
Read MoreDengue Fever Outbreak in Bangladesh Strains Scarce Resources
A deadly outbreak of dengue fever in Bangladesh is the most severe in the country’s history, the authorities said, with fast-spreading infections from rural areas further straining the already overwhelmed hospital system in the capital, Dhaka. On Monday, the Bangladeshi authorities said they had recorded 909 dengue-related deaths this year through Sunday, compared with 281 […]
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