Health impact from smoke rises with more intense U.S. wildfires amid climate change
Climate change in the Western U.S. means more intense and frequent wildfires churning out waves of smoke that scientists say will sweep across the continent to affect tens of millions of people and cause a spike in premature deaths. That emerging reality is prompting people ...
The Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (JSOG) has announced that it will expand the scale of clinical research on the utilization of PGT-A, or preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidies, for fertility treatment. The type of testing examines fertilized eggs produced through in vitro fertilization ...
In border camps, Syrian refugees rely on doctors in trucks and tents
The Syrian war has inflicted all kinds of hardships on Najwa Abdelaziz but she still manages to make light of one of them. "The uprising ruined my teeth," she jokes while getting dental care for the first time in years in the back of ...
Eroding trust in vaccines leaves populations vulnerable, global study finds
Trust in vaccines — one of the world's most effective and widely-used medical products — is highest in poorer countries but weaker in wealthier ones where skepticism has allowed outbreaks of diseases such as measles to persist, a global study released Wednesday has found. France ...
Indian health workers have called a nationwide strike in the coming week to protest over growing safety concerns at work, after three doctors were badly beaten in the state of West Bengal, officials said Friday. Tens of thousands of medical professionals across the country will ...
Researchers say people worldwide could be ingesting 5 grams of microscopic plastic particles every week — equivalent in weight to a credit card. Coming mostly from tap water and especially bottled water, nearly invisible bits of polymer were also found in shellfish, beer and salt, ...
Kenya's rape survivors win right to abortion in landmark court ruling
Kenya's High Court ruled that rape survivors had the right to an abortion on Wednesday, as it ordered authorities to pay almost $30,000 in damages to the mother of a teenage victim who died after a botched abortion. The landmark ruling in a country where ...
What is the absolute limit to human endurance? 2.5 BMR, say U.S. scientists
U.S. scientists who studied the performance of myriad athletes — including adventurous souls who spent five long months running across the United States — have come up with an estimate of the absolute physiological boundary of human endurance. The conclusions are pretty technical but the ...
U.S. moves to label nuclear waste as less dangerous to quicken cleanup, outraging critics
The U.S. government said Wednesday it will reclassify some of the nation's most dangerous radioactive waste to lower its threat level, outraging critics who say the move will make it cheaper and easier to walk away from cleaning up nuclear weapons production sites in ...
U.S. officials warn of climate risk to security as Trump dismisses it
Senior U.S. officials warned Congress on Wednesday about the threat to national security from melting ice in the Arctic as Russia and other adversaries take advantage of the increasing possibilities for shipping and other commercial activity that will emerge as a result of a ...
The number of measles patients in Japan has been growing quickly since the beginning of this year, according to the latest data compiled by the National Institute of Infectious Diseases. The reported patient count came to 566 for the period between Jan. 1 and May ...
Young, pregnant urged to take blood tests for lead after Notre-Dame fire
Paris health authorities have urged children and pregnant women living around Notre-Dame cathedral to have the levels of lead in their blood checked amid concerns over the impact of the fire. The appeal comes after a child living on the Ile de la Cite island ...
