Public Health

Health & Wellness 5 min Fine-Particle Air Pollution Linked to Higher Hospital Admission Risk for Up to 21 Days, Study Finds Researchers matched 20 years of daily admissions in six countries and territories against PM2.5 levels. The ad... AM Amelia Wong 19 Oct Health & Wellness 4 min Kenya's Second Ebola Case Was Already in Quarantine. The First Crossed a Closed Border The new patient is a relative of the first, who reached Nairobi from Congo through Uganda. The strain has no a... AM Amelia Wong 16 Oct Health & Wellness 5 min A Study of 300 Million Blood Tests Finds a 'Cliff' at Menopause. Specialists Question the Word Tests of bone, liver and kidney shifted abruptly at the final period in US and Israeli data. Critics say the d... AM Amelia Wong 15 Oct Health & Wellness 5 min Singapore's Haze Turns 'Very Unhealthy' as Free N95 Masks Go Out Western Singapore's air turned very unhealthy on Wednesday night. What NEA advises, and who qualifies for a fr... AM Amelia Wong 15 Oct Health & Wellness 4 min WHO Does Not Recommend Obesity Drugs for Under-10s and Sets Strict Conditions for Teenagers Teenagers may be offered medicines only if they have weight-related complications and six months of supervised... AM Amelia Wong 12 Oct Health & Wellness 4 min A Guide for New Mothers Missed Its Main Goal but Nearly Doubled Primary Care Visits In a US trial of 405 low-income patients, almost nobody received all six essential postpartum services. Those... AM Amelia Wong 7 Oct Health & Wellness 4 min Only 1 in 32 Young Americans With Opioid Addiction Stayed on Medication for Six Months A study of nearly 230,000 Medicaid patients aged 13 to 25 found that under-18s rarely received the drugs at al... AM Amelia Wong 5 Oct Health & Wellness 3 min Menopause Brought On by Surgery or Cancer Treatment Before 45 Was Linked to Higher Death Risk A review of 36 studies and 2.6 million women finds induced menopause linked to more stroke and heart disease.... AM Amelia Wong 3 Oct Health & Wellness 4 min CDC's Flu Forecast Beat Every Model Last Season. This Season a Google Model Beat It. In the 2025–26 ranking of US flu hospital-admission forecasts, Google's entry came first of 39 and CDC's combi... AM Amelia Wong 2 Oct Health & Wellness 4 min Infections Caused 2.3 Million Cancers in 2024, and a Larger Share in Southeast Asia An IARC analysis in The Lancet Oncology attributes one in eight new tumours worldwide to infectious agents. In... AM Amelia Wong 1 Oct Health & Wellness 4 min Power-Plant Pollution Deaths in Indian Cities Rose Twentyfold Since 2000, Study Estimates A Nature Cities study puts the toll near 300,000 in 2020, up from about 15,000. The same growth cut smoke deat... AM Amelia Wong 27 Sep Health & Wellness 5 min Congo's Largest Ebola Outbreak Passed 7,000 Cases and Is Still Growing Two official counts nine days apart, roughly seven hundred cases between them, and a fatality ratio close to o... AM Amelia Wong 20 Sep Health & Wellness 6 min Three Lux at Night, and a Thicker Heart Wall Three Years Later Eleven thousand people wore light sensors for a week and had their hearts scanned three years on. The brighter... AM Amelia Wong 14 Sep Health & Wellness 6 min A Side Effect Gets Its Own Prescription. A BMJ Study Ranks the 24 Commonest Cascades. The pharmacology was already documented. What the Ontario data adds is which of 65 known prescribing cascades... AM Amelia Wong 11 Sep Sustainability 7 min Eight Data-Centre Turbines, 2.5 Million People and US$53m to US$99m a Year Data centres are installing on-site gas turbines to bypass multi-year grid connection queues. That makes the e... NA Nadia Rahim 1 Sep