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A panel of scientific experts that advises the Food and Drug Administration on vaccine policy — and has been the target of criticism from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — learned on Wednesday that its upcoming meeting to discuss next year’s flu vaccines has been canceled. The F.D.A. sent an email to members of the Vaccines and Related Biological …

An obscure but influential program that gave detailed public health information to about half of the world’s nations will fold as a result of the Trump administration’s freeze on foreign aid. With funding from the United States Agency for International Development, the Demographic and Health Surveys were the only sources of information in many countries about maternal and child health …

A sign reading “measles testing” is seen as an outbreak in Gaines County, Texas, has raised concerns over its spread to other parts of the state, in Seminole, Texas, US, February 25, 2025. — Reuters HOUSTON: An unvaccinated child in Texas has died from measles, health officials confirmed on Wednesday, marking the first measles-related fatality in the United States in …

A representational image of a girl having trouble falling sleep. — Unsplash/File A single night of poor sleep may be enough to compromise your immune system, researchers have found, Daily Mail reported. While long-term sleep deprivation has been linked to obesity, heart disease, and type 2 diabetes, new research suggests that even a single restless night can trigger harmful inflammation …

Zac Sherratt BBC News, South East Hudgell Solicitors Laura Winham was found dead at her flat in Woking in May 2021 A council has apologised after one of its tenants lay dead in her Surrey flat for more than three years. Laura Winham, 41, was found dead in her flat in Woking by her mother and brother in May 2021. …

A child has died of measles in West Texas, the first known death from an outbreak of the disease that is spreading in the state and in neighboring New Mexico, officials said on Wednesday. Health officials in Lubbock and the Texas Department of State Health Services said in a statement that the patient was an unvaccinated school-age child who had …

Dr. Bryant Lin stood before his class at Stanford in September, likely one of the last he would ever teach. Just 50 years old and a nonsmoker, he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer four months earlier. The illness is terminal, and Dr. Lin estimated that he had roughly two years left before the drug he was taking …

A representational image showing the word nightmare and definition written on a paper. — Canva Geo.tv illustration Hi Haya, I experience anxiety on a regular basis, but something that has recently kept me worried is the strange nightmares I get, almost every day. I’m neither a caffeine addict nor do I eat a lot of junk food and I always …

A doctor examines mammograms in Nice, south eastern France, January 4, 2008. — Reuters UNITED NATIONS: Breast cancer cases are expected to increase by 38% globally by 2050, with annual deaths from the disease projected to rise by 68%, according to a new report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a specialised branch of the World Health …

Ken Banks BBC Scotland, Aberdeen University of Aberdeen Dr Lionel Broche said it was hoped the scanner could ultimately improve treatment A scanner developed in Aberdeen could be potentially “extraordinary” for diagnosing and treating breast cancer, it has been claimed. Scientists from the University of Aberdeen used a prototype version of the new Field Cycling Imager (FCI) scanner to examine …