Danger in your hands: Study finds cellphone radiation causes abnormal blood clumping in just five minutes

Danger in your hands: Study finds cellphone radiation causes abnormal blood clumping in just five minutes

For the data in this study, Brown and his colleague, Barbara Biebrich, an ultrasound technician, did an initial experiment including an ultrasound scan of the leg vein of a 62-year-old asymptomatic woman with no history of allergy, blood disorder or systemic disease.

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Why rare diseases often go undiagnosed or untreated in parts of Africa

Why rare diseases often go undiagnosed or untreated in parts of Africa

Globally, more than 350 million people live with rare diseases, most of them caused by a misstep hidden within their genes. Some conditions can be caught early and treated – but in parts of Africa where population data and resources are scarce, many people go undiagnosed.

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Pope Francis death rekindles memories of mediaeval pope Benedict IX, who was a thief, overthrew three other popes

Pope Francis death rekindles memories of mediaeval pope Benedict IX, who was a thief, overthrew three other popes

Benedict IX took office in 1032, while practically a teenager. “At that time, the papacy was the legal centre of the Western world,” Weiss recalls on camera.

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Reports: Cybercriminals fleeced record-breaking Americans and businesses, Trump’s defence minister was a statistic

Reports: Cybercriminals fleeced record-breaking Americans and businesses, Trump’s defence minister was a statistic

Pete Hegseth got a second internet line installed that connected directly to the public internet rather than through the Pentagon’s secured connection, according to sources.

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Study in Sweden reveals sexual harassment is still a taboo subject even in gender-equality hotspots

Study in Sweden reveals sexual harassment is still a taboo subject even in gender-equality hotspots

The Lund findings echo those of a 2022 study2 of gender-based violence and sexual harassment in European research settings, which found that the prevalence of gender-based violence was fairly uniform across 15 nations.

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Top scientists flee US following Trump’s research funding cuts; the academics prefer to work in Europe, Asia – even Africa!

Top scientists flee US following Trump’s research funding cuts; the academics prefer to work in Europe, Asia – even Africa!

More than 200 federal grants for research related to HIV and AIDS were abruptly terminated last month. Cuts to grants from the US National Institutes of Health for Covid-19 research were revealed, and the government began a $400-million reduction in research grants at Columbia University in New York City, because of campus protests supporting Palestinians in the conflict with Israel.

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‘Refugees are Africans like us’, Kenyans say but fear terrorism as state rolls out non-nationals integration plan

‘Refugees are Africans like us’, Kenyans say but fear terrorism as state rolls out non-nationals integration plan

The Shirika Plan has been lauded as a major step forward in securing durable solutions for Kenya’s 800,000 refugees, the majority of whom are from neighbouring Somalia and South Sudan.

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Tales of boats sinking with migrants across the Gulf of Aden are common but Ethiopian youth would rather that than the poverty at home

Tales of boats sinking with migrants across the Gulf of Aden are common but Ethiopian youth would rather that than the poverty at home

Boats carrying migrants across the Gulf of Aden regularly sink. In March, the IOM reported that four boats had capsized off the coast of Yemen, with more than 180 migrants feared dead. Even for those who survive the crossing, traversing war-ravaged Yemen is itself fraught with danger.

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‘I’m going to Saudi Arabia or to my grave: How hope became frustration, then despair among Ethiopia’s Oromo youth under PM Abiy

‘I’m going to Saudi Arabia or to my grave: How hope became frustration, then despair among Ethiopia’s Oromo youth under PM Abiy

The government or its militias “can accuse anyone of being OLA and try to get money from them. If you don’t pay, you’ll be put in prison, and unless you pay you won’t get out,” Østebø says. “There is so much discontent and hopelessness.”

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WHO recommends social and psychological support for school girls to address adolescent pregnancy

WHO recommends social and psychological support for school girls to address adolescent pregnancy

Reasons for early pregnancy vary, but are interrelated including gender inequities, poverty, lack of opportunity and inability to access sexual and reproductive health services, with also a strong correlation with child marriage; and in low- and middle-income countries.

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