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Asanda Zondi received a startling phone call last Thursday, with orders to make her way to a health clinic in Vulindlela, South Africa, where she was participating in a research study that was testing a new device to prevent pregnancy and H.IV. infection. The trial was shutting down, a nurse told her. The device, a silicone ring inserted into her …

Hospital and emergency room patients diagnosed with cannabis use disorder — defined as an inability to stop using cannabis even when the drug is causing harm — died at almost three times the rate of individuals without the disorder over the next five years, according to a study published on Thursday, the largest on the subject. Patients with cannabis use …

Getty Images Hospitals in England have just had their busiest week of this winter so far. More than 98,000 patients, on average, were in hospital beds each day last week – the highest level this winter – with 96% of adult beds occupied. It comes as Norovirus cases continue to climb – with nearly 1,000 beds occupied by patients with …

Supporters of the US Agency for International Development (USAid) rally on the grounds of the US Capitol in Washington, DC on February 05, 2025. — AFP When the Trump administration took over on January 20, Anne Linn was working as a senior community health adviser at the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) – a government initiative to combat malaria implemented by …

Family photo Vlad Nikolin-Caisley died on 7 May 2024 after swallowing poison he bought online “I saw my son fighting for his last breath,” says Anna Nikolin-Caisley. “He went in agony.” Anna believes her youngest child, Vlad, 17, was “encouraged” to swallow poison by users of an online “pro-suicide” group which is still active in the UK, despite numerous calls …

Ernest Drucker, a pioneering public-health researcher who approached drug addiction with compassion, invigorated needle-exchange programs to stem the AIDS epidemic and diagnosed the destructive impact of what he called a “plague” of mass incarceration, died on Jan. 26 at his home in Manhattan. He was 84. The cause was complications of dementia, his son, Jesse Drucker, said. For more than …

Catherine Snowdon BBC News Getty Images Unique national research for England has demonstrated the “significant” impact the gynaecological condition endometriosis has had on women’s ability to earn and work. Researchers suggest that following diagnosis, women may be taking lower-paid jobs or working fewer hours. The charity Endometriosis UK called on workplaces to provide “support, understanding and reasonable adjustments for endometriosis” …

As the five-year anniversary approaches of the World Health Organization’s declaration of the coronavirus pandemic, The New York Times is interested in exploring the extent to which life has changed. (We also want to hear from you if you have lost someone to Covid or another cause of death in the last five years.) Have your daily routines changed? Do …

The coronavirus pandemic has shifted grieving for many Americans, as more than a million people died from Covid, a figure that is very likely undercounted. The New York Times is interested in exploring how your relationship to grief may have changed in the last five years. (We also want to hear from you on the extent to which your life …

Health workers walk on snow during a polio vaccination drive in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, February 04, 2025. — AFP Health workers are braving freezing temperatures this week to administer polio vaccinations in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), as Pakistan grapples with a surge in cases recorded nationwide last year. Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan are the only countries where polio …