American Global Health Leadership in a Second Trump Administration
The Trump administration may undermine U.S. leadership and the international system of global health cooperation. Pandemic preparedness, resilient health systems and reproductive rights will suffer worldwide…Sen. Bill Cassidy has ‘frank’ talk with RFK Jr. about vaccines
The new chair of the Senate committee that oversees the Department of Health and Human Services didn’t immediately endorse President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the agency after meeting with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) wrote in a tepid social media post following the meeting that he had a “frank” conversation…
DNA adds new chapter to Indonesia’s layered human history
A new study has outlined the first genomic evidence of early migration from New Guinea into the Wallacea, an archipelago containing Timor-Leste and hundreds of inhabited eastern Indonesian islands…Ukrainian hackers take credit for hacking Russian ISP that wiped out servers and caused internet outages
The Russian ISP blamed the Ukrainian hackers for causing a “complete failure” across its internet infrastructure. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…
AI Social Media Users Are Not Always a Totally Dumb Idea
Meta’s AI characters users might seem useless, but fake social media users can sometimes offer valuable insights into real human behavior…
How meditation deconstructs your mind
We’re laying out the latest science of what meditation does to your mind. The better we understand the common mechanisms across how different meditation practices affect the mind, the more meditation science can contribute to broader understandings of human psychology. More relevant for us non-scientists, we’ll get better at developing and fine-tuning styles of practice…
As US marks first H5N1 bird flu death, WHO and CDC say risk remains low
No human-to-human spread identified and no concerning mutations circulating…Hammanskraal finally gets clean water after decade-long wait
After more than 10 years, the City of Tshwane has declared that the water crisis in Hammanskraal is over, with the Magalies Klipdrift Water Treatment Plant’s water now safe for human consumption. The announcement was made following testing by the Department of Water and Sanitation, Magalies Water…
Health Ministry Issues Advisory on Potential Flu-Like Illness Outbreak
The Ministry of Health has confirmed that it is closely monitoring reports of a potential outbreak of a flu-like illness caused by the Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV). In a statement released on Tuesday, January 7, the Ministry acknowledged that some patients in hospitals have shown symptoms of the virus…