WHO ‘desperate’ as New Zealand, Iran reject amendments to international health regulations
The agreement between the parties in New Zealand’s governing coalition stipulated that New Zealand would lodge a “reservation” against the 2022 IHR amendments.
Depression in men: In many families, the only acceptable emotion for men is expression of anger
As we reflect on men’s health, let us reflect on how our families, communities and our healthcare systems can take better care of our grandfathers, fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, friends and colleagues.
Lifestyle: US beef industry woos 2.4 million teachers in drive to paint eating meat as socially and environmentally cool
The beef industry “knows it has a trust issue,” says Jennifer Jacquet, a professor of environmental science and policy at the University of Miami. The industry is attempting to influence public opinion by starting with children, says Jan Dutkiewicz at the Pratt Institute’s Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies.
Cancer diagnosis reunites King Charles III with rebellious son, Prince Harry, who flew from US
Despite the diagnosis, Charles is planning to continue with much of his private work as monarch including his weekly audience with the prime minister and dealing with state papers. Sunak said he was in regular contact with the king.
Regimes teeming with freeloaders like Uganda’s often birth morally and culturally ‘unidentified flying objects’
In Uganda we the elderly are watching as false economic schemes such as Myooga and Parish Development Model, based on giving “money bonanzas” to a few individuals in our communities in the hope that if they become rich their richness and prosperity will flow downward to us to benefit the rest of the community.
World backs King Charles III as he breaks from tradition of secrecy and announces he has cancer
The king is being treated as an outpatient, the palace said. It said Charles, who has generally enjoyed good health, “remains wholly positive about his treatment and looks forward to returning to full public duty as soon as possible.”
Bayer pharmaceutical ordered to pay $2.25 billion after jury links herbicide Roundup to cancer
On Friday a jury returned a unanimous verdict, finding that Roundup was a cancer-causing product, that Monsanto was negligent and that Monsanto failed to warn about the dangers of Roundup, McKivison’s lawyers Tom Kline and Jason Itkin said in a joint statement.
Malaria vaccine: Doctors warn it’s futile and dangerous experiment on 250,000 African children
Cameroon this week became the world’s first country to routinely vaccinate children against malaria, using a shot that’s only 30 per cent effective and doesn’t stop transmission. The country plans to give the vaccine – known as Mosquirix (RTS,S/AS01) – to about 250,000 children by the end of 2025. The...
Revealed: Covid engineering plans were shared as coded messages between Wuhan lab and US scientists
The documents show that the scientists behind DEFUSE proposed a strategy to stitch SARS-related viral genomes together using six pieces.
Fresh evidence obtained by US Right to Know reveals further how US virologists worked with Wuhan lab to engineer Covid
American scientists planned to work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology to engineer novel coronaviruses with the features of SARS-CoV-2 the year before the virus emerged from that city, according to documents obtained by US Right to Know. While rare in nature, these features were central to the esoteric research...
