Giving What We Can released its first YouTube video, hosted by Justin Portela, focusing on a 1955 WHO meeting that contributed to malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa. The channel aims to introduce ef…
Healthcare AI is deploying disconnected point solutions like chatbots and fall-detection tools without addressing whether the underlying system was designed around people, according to Freddy del Barr…
An 11-year-old boy died from suspected heatstroke in Hong Kong after a 400-meter training run, prompting health experts to warn about the risks of extreme heat. The city recorded its hottest day of th…
The New York Times published a headline stating "Half a million known virus cases" during the Omicron peak, when the US alone exceeded that many cases daily, implying a factor-of-1000 error. The autho…
Level Access announced its digital accessibility platform is now available in the Microsoft Marketplace, enabling customers to discover and deploy the solution with seamless integration across Microso…
Consumer technology is shifting from reactive healthcare to preventive medicine by using wearable sensors and AI to monitor physiological signals continuously. Devices like smartwatches and smart ring…
Clalit Health Services has joined PANDAI, an €8 million EU-funded consortium using AI to predict and manage future pandemics. The project, backed by Horizon Europe and involving the WHO and research g…
Clalit Health Services, Israel's largest healthcare provider, has joined the PANDAI project, an €8 million European initiative funded by Horizon Europe to build an AI platform for detecting and managi…
Residents near AI data centers report chronic sleep disruption, headaches, and cardiovascular risks from low-frequency noise that standard decibel meters fail to capture. Cooling systems for AI server…
Korea's drug safety watchdog completed its first international joint review of a biopharmaceutical product alongside European and global regulators under the OPEN framework, easing regulatory bottlene…
More than 1,000 civilians in Sudan have been killed in drone strikes in the first five months of 2026, according to the United Nations, as the country's civil war sees a sharp increase in drone warfar…
Health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are struggling to contain an Ebola outbreak in displacement camps as distrust grows among locals, who forced aid teams away after two women died from…
Researchers released a multilingual vaccine benchmark called VaxEval containing 1,886 multiple-choice questions covering 14 vaccines in English, Spanish, and Chinese, drawing from sources including th…
Global health-care providers are deploying agentic AI to automate administrative tasks and clinical decisions as the World Health Organization warns of a shortfall of 11 million health workers by 2030…
Researchers have systematically excluded women, particularly pregnant women, from clinical trials since post-thalidomide FDA guidance, leaving 79% of pregnant women taking at least one medication with…
Three Red Cross volunteers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo died after contracting Ebola during a humanitarian mission in March, before the outbreak was officially identified. The virus has sin…
The World Health Organization has raised the public health risk from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo from "high" to "very high," though the global risk remains low. The outbreak…
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, first reported on May 15, has become the third largest on record, with nearly 750 cases and 177 deaths. The World Health Organization has ra…
A recent study published in *Psychopharmacology* suggests that major depressive disorder may cause changes in how the body metabolizes the amino acid valine, rather than the metabolic issue triggering…
A group of former world leaders, known as the Elders and founded by Nelson Mandela, conducted a simulation of a health emergency in Kenya to test global pandemic preparedness. The exercise revealed cr…