Patients in Australia face a “life or death” situation if they need a stem cell match due to a critical shortage of blood donors, a cancer organisation has warned. There are about 1000 Australians urgently waiting for a living stem cell match, also known as a bone marrow match, at any one time, according to … Read more
Nurses will go ahead with a planned strike in NSW after rejecting an interim wage rise recommended by the state’s industrial umpire. Members of the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association plan to stage a 24-hour strike from 7am on Tuesday, in the union’s second major stop-work action since Labor came to power in March 2023. … Read more
NEW ORLEANS — A longtime donor who has given more than $160 million to Tulane University is the new namesake of the university’s expanding 112-year-old school of public health, Tulane officials announced Wednesday. The amount of Celia Scott Weatherhead’s latest gift wasn’t revealed, but school officials indicated it will help transform the institution into one … Read more
After 25 years as a pediatric infectious diseases specialist, Asunción Mejías is too familiar with the deadly unpredictability of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), an infection that hospitalizes up to 80,000 children under the age of 5 every year in the US. “It’s a disease which can change very quickly,” says Mejías, who works at St. … Read more
IBADAN, Nigeria — In her cramped, dimly lit kitchen, Idowu Bello leans over a gas cooker while stirring a pot of eba, the thick starchy West African staple made from cassava root. Kidney problems and chronic exhaustion forced the 56-year-old Nigerian woman to retire from teaching, and she switches between cooking with gas or over … Read more
The family of a 12-year-old girl who took her own life after relentless bullying has vowed they will not let her story be “swept under the carpet”. Parents of Year 7 student Charlotte O’Brien allege she was harassed at Santa Sabina College in Strathfield in Sydney’s inner west and on social media for two years … Read more
High levels of sick leave left Victoria down 50 ambulances overnight and in a dangerous position, according to the boss of the state’s paramedics union. Victorian Ambulance Union Secretary Danny Hill said he’d been told of a 69-year-old Melbourne man who died after waiting hours for an ambulance during the shortage on Saturday night into … Read more
Indyanna, 2, was walking strangely one day — a few weeks later, a brain scan revealed she had a tumour the size of a golf ball on her brain. And while it took several weeks to reach that diagnosis, what came next happened very quickly — she was operated on that day, and now faces … Read more
Nine in 10 adults are increasing their risk of diabetes, heart disease or bowel cancer by not eating enough fibre, experts found. Fewer than one in 10 are consuming the recommended daily amount – and two thirds of those quizzed as part of the research did not know what dietary fibre actually is. Just 36 … Read more
In 2020, while the Covid-19 pandemic raged, a steadily growing epidemic continued to burn its path across the United States. Gun violence stole the lives of 45,222 Americans that fateful year, the worst year on record for gun deaths to that point. The path leading to each one of these deaths is layered and complex. … Read more
