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The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to cancel $500m (£376m) in funding for mRNA vaccines being developed to counter viruses like the flu and Covid-19. The move will impact 22 projects being led by major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer and Moderna, for vaccines against bird flu and other viruses, HHS said. Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy …

An infant is being administered anti-polio vaccine in Pakistan. — APP/File NIH’s Regional Reference Laboratory confirms case. 12 cases reported in South Khyber Pakhtunkhwa so far.  Concerns over virus transmission in high-risk areas renewed. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s total number of polio cases in 2025 has risen to 19 after a five-month-old baby from Lakki Marwat district in South Khyber Pakhtunkhwa tested positive …

An infant is being administered anti-polio vaccine in Pakistan. — APP/File NIH’s Regional Reference Laboratory confirms case. 12 cases reported in South Khyber Pakhtunkhwa so far.  Concerns over virus transmission in high-risk areas renewed. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s total number of polio cases in 2025 has risen to 19 after a five-month-old baby from Lakki Marwat district in South Khyber Pakhtunkhwa tested positive …

Pakistani health worker speaks with pregnant women at a healthcare centre in the town of Sharda in the mountainous Neelum Valley. — AFP/File  Microsoft founder Bill Gates’s charity organisation, the Gates Foundation, has announced a new $2.5 billion commitment through 2030 to fund a new era of women-centred health research and innovation. According to the release, the investment — the …

An ARS vector control agent operates as part of the fight against the Chikungunya pandemic by mosquitoes in Saint-Benoit on the French overseas island of La Reunion on April 22, 2025. — AFP Over 7,000 cases of the mosquito-borne virus chikungunya have been reported in China’s Guangdong province since July, prompting authorities to implement measures reminiscent of the COVID-19 pandemic. …

Matthew Hill West of England health correspondent BBC One of the walls of the unit was damaged during an incident earlier in the year Nurses have been assaulted and “punched in the face” amid violent behavioural problems at a hospital’s children’s unit, staff have told the BBC. Since April, nurses at the Great Western Hospital (GWH) in Swindon say a …

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A dental practice in Nottinghamshire says it has been told it cannot offer NHS treatment because there is deemed to be “no need” for it in the area. Toothbank aims to open in The Square, Beeston, later this month, offering private care but has been unable to obtain an NHS contract from the local integrated care board (ICB). Practice director …

BBC Charlotte Creevy was supported by a charity after her son stopped breathing Charlotte Creevy’s son Seth was two weeks old when he stopped breathing and was rushed to intensive care at a London hospital. “What kept going through my mind was, ‘Is he going to live or die?'” Charlotte said Seth had contracted three viruses and needed respiratory support. …

People coming off obesity jabs like Wegovy and Mounjaro should have check-ups for at least a year to make sure they don’t pile weight back on, new advice for the NHS says. It’s not uncommon for people to regain most of what they shed once they stop treatment, experience shows. The guidance, from health assessment body NICE, warns weight management …