24 h. ago Nearly 800 killed at Gaza food hubs and aid convoy routes since end of May, UN says

UN human rights office says 615 of the deaths were in vicinity of sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian FoundationMiddle East crisis – live updatesAt least 798 people have been killed while seeking food at distribution points operated by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and other humanitarian convoys since the end of May, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Friday.The GHF, proposed by Israel as an alternative to the UN aid system in Gaza, has been almost universally condemned by rights groups for its violation of principles of humanitarian impartiality and what they have said could be complicity in war crimes. Continue reading...

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28 h. ago Almost 800 people killed in Gaza while trying to get food aid since end of May, says UN – Middle East crisis live

Majority of those killed were in the vicinity of sites run by the Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation The number of people killed by strikes in Gaza on Friday has risen to seven, according to the region’s civil defence agency, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports.Nearly all of Gaza’s population has been displaced at least once during the more than 21-month war, which has created dire humanitarian conditions for the more than two million people living there. Continue reading...

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37 h. ago Britain's 'deadliest' hospitals: NHS Trusts where 'too many' patients are dying, official report shows

Worrying data show that some NHS trusts recorded over a quarter more patient deaths than expected between March 2024 and February this year.

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48 h. ago Girl dies from 'brain swelling' virus as health officials rush to contain disease

The 18-year-old was rushed to hospital after testing positive for Nipah Virus.

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52 h. ago Teen girl dies from 'brain swelling' virus as officials rush to contain 'next pandemic'

Health officials are rushing to try and find contacts of the teenage girl after she tested positive for Nipah Virus, which is a highly contagious and lethal disease

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3 d. ago Water levels in Yorkshire reservoirs run low as five million placed under hosepipe ban in drought

Officials at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) have issued a yellow heat health alert for southern England and the Midlands from 10am this morning until next Tuesday.

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3 d. ago Britain's sweltering summer continues as THIRD heatwave starts today amid scorched earth and hosepipe ban

Officials at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) have issued a yellow heat health alert for southern England and the Midlands from 10am this morning until next Tuesday.

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3 d. ago Gaza aid workers overwhelmed by ‘mass casualty incidents’ at food distribution sites

Doctors say hundreds have been wounded by Israeli gunfire while trying to reach convoysMedical officials, humanitarian workers and doctors in Gaza say they have been overwhelmed by almost daily “mass casualty incidents” as they struggle to deal with those wounded by Israeli fire on Palestinians seeking aid.Doctors said many of the casualties they are treating describe being shot as they try to reach distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a secretive US- and Israel-backed organisation that began handing out food in late May. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago London, Ont., health officials tracking down source of legionnaires' outbreak

London, Ont., health officials tracking down source of legionnaires' outbreak  Yahoo

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3 d. ago UK weather maps prompt urgent heatwave health alert as six areas set for 30C scorcher

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and Met Office officials have warned NHS services may be stretched and that older and vulnerable people will need to take care in the heat

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4 d. ago Photos show Palestinians mourning after people were killed in Israeli strikes

Health officials in the Palestinian territory said Tuesday that 18 people were killed in Israeli strikes.

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5 d. ago Urgent warning issued as drug chiefs recall common eye drops due to risk they could cause BLINDNESS

Health officials have urgently recalled over 11,000 eye drops due to fears over contamination that could potentially cause serious eye infections and even blindness.

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8 d. ago Alaska woman dies from rampant STD after infection spreads throughout her organs

An anonymous Alaska woman in her 50s has died after a rare and severe complication of an STI, health officials report. The infection traveled through her bloodstream and caused organ failure.

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1 week ago Health chiefs issue urgent warning as vital vaccine is 'out of stock' in the UK

Holidaymakers may be at risk of contracting a deadly infection that could make their eyes bleed as health officials warn vaccine stocks are running dangerously low.

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1 week ago Federal officials claim to have cracked the biggest health care fraud schemes in history

State and federal prosecutors have charged more than 320 people in the largest coordinated takedown of health care fraud schemes in Justice Department history that uncovered nearly $15 million in false claims

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1 week ago 22 Palestinians killed in Gaza as Israeli forces fire on crowds at food aid sites, medics say

Witnesses and medics in Gaza say Israeli forces have killed at least 22 people and wounded 20 others when they fired on crowds returning from a food aid site

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2 w. ago Israeli strikes kill more than 60 people in Gaza, health officials say

Latest deaths come amid worsening humanitarian situation despite renewed hope for ceasefireAt least 62 people have been killed in Gaza by overnight Israeli strikes, according to health officials, as the humanitarian situation worsens in the besieged strip despite renewed hope for a ceasefire.Airstrikes began overnight on Friday and continued into Saturday morning, killing a dozen people near a displacement shelter near Palestine Stadium in Gaza City. A strike at midday on Saturday killed at least 11 people. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago At least 34 people killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza as ceasefire prospects inch closer

Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed at least 34 people, according to health officials

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2 w. ago ‘American death zones’: Trump admin announces $30m for Gaza aid program where dozens have been killed trying to get food

Testimony collected by The Independent from Palestinians whose family members have been killed at sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation paints a picture of chaos and death

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2 w. ago The Guardian view on annihilation in Gaza: the deaths mount, but the pressure has ebbed | Editorial

Israel’s attack on Iran overshadowed the ongoing carnage. Its allies are complicit in the horror; they must instead help to build a future for Palestinians“We cannot be asking civilians to go into a combat zone so that then they can be killed with the justification that they are in a combat zone.” It defies belief that the Unicef spokesperson, James Elder, should have needed to spell that out this week. And yet each day Palestinians continue to be killed while attempting to collect aid for their families from food hubs in Gaza, forced to make a lethal choice between risking being shot and letting their families slowly starve. More than 500 have died around the centres since the system was introduced – yet, with attention fixed on Israel’s attacks on Iran, there has been little to spare for recent deaths.The Israeli military has given shifting accounts of events. But soldiers told the newspaper Haaretz that commanders ordered troops to shoot at crowds that posed no threat. The Israel...

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