Doctor avoids vaping, pulling all-nighters, inactivity, junk food
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Doctor avoids vaping, pulling all-nighters, inactivity, junk food

She’s giving her TikTok followers the 4-1-1 on four bad habits to avoid. Dr. Jess Andrade, a sports medicine specialist and pediatrics doctor in Massachusetts, is sharing the four activities she won’t do — vape, pull an all-nighter, exercise for less than 150 minutes a week and consume too many artificial ingredients…

Inside the last functioning hospital in Sudan’s Khartoum North | Sudan war News

Inside the last functioning hospital in Sudan’s Khartoum North | Sudan war News

Away from the bustling corridors of Bahri Hospital, the only functioning hospital left in Sudan’s city of Khartoum North, Alsuna Issa sits perched on the edge of a small cot next to her toddler son in a patient room. The young boy, Jaber, dressed in distressed jeans and a Spiderman…

600 viruses found on showerheads, toothbrushes in new study
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600 viruses found on showerheads, toothbrushes in new study

You may need a shower after hearing the results of this eye-opening study. Northwestern University researchers identified more than 600 different viruses on 92 showerhead and 34 toothbrush samples — and no two samples were alike. “The number of viruses that we found is absolutely wild,” said indoor microbiologist Erica M….

‘Death sentence’: Asbestos released by Israel’s bombs will kill for decades | Israel-Palestine conflict News

‘Death sentence’: Asbestos released by Israel’s bombs will kill for decades | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israel’s relentless bombardment of Gaza has unleashed yet another deadly, but silent enemy on the people there – asbestos. A mineral that poses little risk to humans when undisturbed but that is highly carcinogenic when dispersed and released into the atmosphere, asbestos is present throughout much of Gaza’s structures. Over…

DRC launches first mpox vaccination drive in efforts to curb outbreak | Health News

DRC launches first mpox vaccination drive in efforts to curb outbreak | Health News

The vaccine will first be given to health workers and those with existing health issues. The Democratic Republic of Congo has launched its first vaccination campaign against mpox in the eastern city of Goma, which was hit the hardest by an outbreak. Vaccines were first administered to hospital staff on…

What is the deadly Marburg virus and where has it spread? | Health News

What is the deadly Marburg virus and where has it spread? | Health News

Rwanda is fighting its first outbreak of the “highly virulent” Marburg virus which was first reported in late September. As of Thursday, 11 people were reported to have died of the virus in Rwanda. The health minister announced the country will begin clinical trials of experimental vaccines and treatments. So what…

WHO approves first mpox test for faster diagnoses | Health News

WHO approves first mpox test for faster diagnoses | Health News

The ‘real time PCR test’ will enable the detection of the virus by swabbing human skin lesions. The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved the use of the first diagnostic test for mpox that will provide immediate results. This will increase testing capabilities in countries facing outbreaks, it says. The…

UK parliament to consider assisted dying law this month | Health News

UK parliament to consider assisted dying law this month | Health News

Nine years after the failure of the last assisted dying bill and amid a change in public opinion, MPs to vote according to their conscience. The UK parliament will consider a proposal to legalise assisted dying, nine years after rejecting a similar proposal. Kim Leadbeater, a member of parliament with…

Two California dairy workers infected with bird flu, latest human cases in US
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Two California dairy workers infected with bird flu, latest human cases in US

Two dairy workers in California were infected with bird flu, the 15th and 16th human cases detected this year in an ongoing outbreak affecting the nation’s dairy cows, health officials said Thursday. The latest cases were found in workers who had contact with infected cattle in California’s Central Valley, where more…