“The options for health care — especially emergency care — for the people of Gaza are reduced to zero,” the expert said. Israel’s assault on Gaza health facilities and workers has completely “decimated” the health care system and has left Palestinians with “zero” options for care, a UN expert has warned. Earlier this week, Israel...
Colombia has declared a nationwide health emergency after at least 34 people died of yellow fever, according to official figures. Yellow fever is caused by a virus transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes. It can be prevented by a vaccine which in most cases provides lifelong protection. The government has urged people to get vaccinated...
Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) have agreed the text of a legally binding treaty designed to better tackle future pandemics. The pact is meant to avoid the disorganisation and competition for resources seen during the Covid-19 outbreak. Key elements include the rapid sharing of data about new diseases, to ensure scientists and pharmaceutical...
Five children were killed or wounded in a US strike on a ceramics factory on Sunday. The U.S. has killed over 100 people in Yemen in less than a month of bombardments, Yemen health officials say, killing dozens of civilians as the Trump administration escalates its attacks on the region. The Yemen Health Ministry reported...
Meghan Owen Work and Money Correspondent, BBC London BBC Lorraine Branch is one of the tenants battling the Peabody housing association “We’re treated like peasants. Like we’re not good enough to live in decent homes,” says Lorraine Branch, a tenant on the Nags Head Estate in east London. She is part of a group of...
US President Donald Trump is in “excellent cognitive and physical health”, says his White House physician. In the first annual physical of his second presidential term at a Washington DC-area hospital, Trump was also found to have “scaring on the right ear from a gunshot wound”, after an assassination attempt last July. “President Trump remains...
On March 17, 2025, DefenseScoop reported that Congress approved $141 billion for Pentagon research and development — an amount larger than the budgets of most federal agencies, and close to the size of the seven next largest military budgets around the world. Yet, as usual, there was little debate. Instead, military leaders and lawmakers lamented...
Two female zebras have been put down at Paignton Zoo due to deteriorating health conditions, the organisation has announced. The zoo said it had made the “difficult decision” to euthanise, Taru, 22, and Leila, 11. Taru had cancer that stopped responding to treatment, while Leila had a rare blood-clotting condition affecting her quality of life,...
Gavin Kermack BBC News, West Midlands PA Media The health secretary Wes Streeting said it was “not acceptable” that the bin strike was causing “unsanitary conditions” on the streets of Birmingham As Birmingham’s bin strikes enter their fifth week, the health secretary has said he is concerned about the impact of the walkout on public...
Kelly Smith, a 57-year-old New York City resident, is part of the Nonviolent Medicaid Army (NVMA), a growing national movement of poor people who are organizing to stop proposed cuts to Medicaid and promote health care as a human right. “The need for health care unites us all,” Smith told Truthout. “Right now, I’m terrified...
Echoing a party-line vote by the U.S. Senate Finance Committee last week, the chamber’s Republicans on Thursday confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, former televison host Dr. Mehmet Oz. Since Trump nominated Oz — who previously ran as a Republican for a U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania...
EPA Casualties from the air strikes in Gaza City, including children, were brought to al-Ahli hospital At least 27 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a school in northern Gaza that was serving as a shelter for displaced families, the Hamas-run health ministry says. Dozens more were wounded when the Dar...
A new Gallup survey finds 11 percent of US adults can’t access quality care and can’t pay for care or medicine. Lack of access to health care has hit a new high in the U.S., with over a third of Americans now unable to access quality care due to cost, new West Health-Gallup polling finds....
Daniela Relph Senior royal correspondent PA Media The announcement from Buckingham Palace that King Charles had been in hospital after experiencing side effects from his cancer treatment came hours before he was due to visit Birmingham on Friday. The official statement was released at 21:00 GMT on Thursday. That in itself was a sign of...
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