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August 11, 2025 Comment off

Kennedy fails in bid to retract vaccine safety study

WASHINGTON, Aug 11, 2025 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has failed in his attempt to have a major vaccine safety study withdrawn. The Annals of Internal Medicine has rejected his demand to retract a large Danish study that tracked more than 1.2 million children over two decades, finding no evidence that aluminum in vaccines increases […]

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August 8, 2025 Comment off

Kenya declared free of sleeping sickness

NAIROBI, 8 August 2025 – Kenya has been declared free of human African trypanosomiasis, commonly known as sleeping sickness, after more than a decade without any locally acquired cases. The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed the elimination following years of targeted surveillance, improved diagnostics and sustained control of the tsetse fly – the insect that […]

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August 7, 2025 Comment off

Nitrous oxide deaths climb sharply across the US

NEW YORK, August 7, 2025 – A study published in JAMA Network Open has revealed a steep climb in deaths tied to nitrous oxide poisoning across the United States over the past decade, although the rate of increase has slowed in recent years. Between 2010 and 2023, there were 1,240 recorded deaths involving nitrous oxide […]

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August 4, 2025 Comment off

World’s first gonorrhoea vaccine roll-out begins in UK

LONDON, 4 August 2025 – The NHS, in collaboration with local authorities, has begun a world-first vaccination campaign using the 4CMenB meningococcal B vaccine to protect those most at risk from gonorrhoea. The existing vaccine – originally developed to prevent meningitis B – is being repurposed because research shows it offers moderate cross-protection, with around […]

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August 2, 2025 Comment off

Bacterial cellulose wound dressing offers new hope for burn victims

SHENZHEN, August 2, 2025 – Scientists have developed a new wound dressing that uses modified bacterial cellulose to deliver human thrombin, dramatically accelerating the body’s ability to stop bleeding. The dressing, described in a new study published in Bioactive Materials, is designed to help manage acute blood loss from burn wounds and trauma by harnessing […]

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August 1, 2025 Comment off

Mulitple sclerosis warning signs may emerge 15 years earlier

VANCOUVER, August 1, 2025 – People who go on to develop multiple sclerosis (MS) show significantly increased use of healthcare services as early as 15 years before their first neurological symptoms appear, according to new research from the University of British Columbia. The study, published in JAMA Network Open, analyzed the health records of over […]

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