4 h. ago Doctors sound alarm as mystery 'crying disease' deaths rise to 60 with 1,000 infected

The World Health Organization has given an update on a mystery outbreak causing international alarm.

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53 h. ago Doctors sound alarm over mystery illness in Congo after 50 people die within hours of symptoms

Officials believe the outbreak began on January 21, and 419 cases have been recorded as of Monday. This includes 53 deaths.

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2 d. ago WHO alarm over mystery illness that's killed more than 50 people in just hours

The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported more than 50 deaths from an unknown illness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has an extremely short window between symptoms and death

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3 d. ago Breast cancer diagnoses and deaths expected to surge worldwide, says WHO

Cases in UK set to rise by 21% and deaths by 42%, while globally one in 20 women will be diagnosed with diseaseBreast cancer diagnoses and deaths are projected to surge worldwide by 2050, the World Health Organization’s cancer agency has said, with cases in the UK to rise by 21% and deaths by 42%.Globally, one in 20 women will be diagnosed with the disease in their lifetime, with cases up 38% and deaths up 68% over the next 25 years, according to an analysis by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Breast cancer cases and deaths set to rise dramatically by 2050, data suggests

The International Agency for Research on Cancer said one in 20 women globally will develop breast cancer in their lifetime.

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6 d. ago Lanarkshire MSP warns drug deaths will rise unless funding reaches the frontline

Monica Lennon MSP who has been campaigning on drug and alcohol issues in the Scottish Parliament since 2016 has welcomed an Evaluation of the National Drug Deaths Mission.

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7 d. ago ‘If not fire, we’ll be killed by hunger’: villagers continue to feel fallout from Bolivia’s worst wildfires

Residents battle food shortages and health issues after vast areas of forest and farmland burned last yearAs she walks away from the house where she raised her family, Isabel Surubí pauses to point at the bed of a stream, now covered with dry leaves, that once supplied her entire community. “The water used to come from here,” she says.In 2024, wildfires in Bolivia burned more than 10m hectares (about 39,000 sq miles) of forest, farmland and savannah – an area greater than the size of Portugal. After the fires, and the drought that preceded them, the spring feeding Surubí’s village of Los Ángeles in Bolivia’s tropical dry forest ran dry. Continue reading...

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