Providing simple and cheap healthcare measures to pregnant women — such as offering aspirin — could prevent more than a million babies from being stillborn or dying as newborns in developing countries every …
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Mexico Plans Expedition to Find Endangered Porpoises
Mexican officials and the conservation group Sea Shepherd said Monday that experts would set out in two ships in a bid to locate the few remaining vaquita marina, the world’s …
your ads here!US, UAE: Climate Farming Fund Has Grown to $13 Billion
Funding for a global initiative aimed at creating more environmentally friendly and climate-resilient farming has grown to $13 billion, co-leaders the United States and the United Arab Emirates said Monday. …
your ads here!US Backs Study of Safe Injection Sites, Overdose Prevention
For the first time, the U.S. government will pay for a large study measuring whether overdoses can be prevented by so-called safe injection sites, places where people can use heroin …
your ads here!Congress Eyes New Rules for Tech
Most Democrats and Republicans agree that the federal government should better regulate the biggest technology companies, particularly social media platforms. But there is little consensus on how it should be …
your ads here!Social Stigma of Fentanyl Abuse Complicates Treatment
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says America’s leading cause of overdose deaths is synthetic opioids, mostly fentanyl, which can be up to 50 times stronger than heroin. …
your ads here!Fentanyl Addiction Treatments Offer New Chances
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says America’s leading cause of overdose deaths is synthetic opioids, mostly fentanyl, which can be up to 50 times stronger than heroin. …
your ads here!State, Local Agencies Prepare for End of COVID-19 Emergency
“Being in hospitals during the early days of COVID-19 was terrifying, like I was going to war. But as far as I’m concerned, those days are done, Danielle King, a …
your ads here!Dead Rivers, Flaming Lakes: India’s Sewage Failure
Mohammed Azhar holds his baby niece next to a storm drain full of plastic and stinking black sludge, testament to India’s failure to treat nearly two-thirds of its urban sewage. …
your ads here!China Approves Safety of Gene-Edited Soybean
China has approved the safety of a gene-edited soybean, its first approval of the technology in a crop, as the country increasingly looks to science to boost food production. The …
your ads here!WHO Declares End to COVID-19 as Global Health Emergency
The World Health Organization has declared the COVID-19 pandemic to be over as a global health emergency. “However, that does not mean COVID-19 is over as a global health …
your ads here!WHO Downgrades COVID Pandemic, Says It’s No Longer Emergency
The World Health Organization said Friday that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies …
your ads here!Conservation Groups Sue US Government to Ground SpaceX Operations
Environmental groups sue the U.S. government over SpaceX’s launch license. Plus, a pair of spacewalks outside the International Space Station, and a glimpse at the destruction that scientists say awaits …
your ads here!El Nino Expected to Raise Global Temperatures
Global temperatures are likely to reach new highs this year with the predicted onset of El Nino, a natural occurring phenomenon typically associated with the warming of the planet. “The …
your ads here!COVID-Related Learning Loss in US Mirrors Global Trend
Providing further proof that U.S. children suffered significant learning loss when schools were closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Assessment Governing Board released a report Wednesday that showed test …
your ads here!WHO Experts Weigh Whether World Ready to End COVID Emergency
A panel of global health experts will meet Thursday to decide if COVID-19 is still an emergency under the World Health Organization’s rules, a status that helps maintain international focus …
your ads here!After Decades of Attempts, US Approves 1st Vaccine for RSV
The United States approved the first vaccine for RSV on Wednesday, shots to protect older adults against a respiratory virus that’s most notorious for attacking babies but endangers their grandparents, …
your ads here!Brazil Forest Bill Aims to Unlock Carbon Credit Market
Companies with Brazilian forest concessions would be allowed to generate carbon credits under a bill passed by its Congress this week that marks a first step in regulating the country’s …
your ads here!Star Gobbles Up Planet in One Big Bite
For the first time, scientists have caught a star in the act of swallowing a planet — not just a nibble or bite, but one big gulp. Astronomers on Wednesday …
your ads here!258 Million Needed Urgent Food Aid in 2022: UN
Some 258 million people needed emergency food aid last year because of conflict, economic shocks and climate disasters, a U.N. report said Wednesday, a sharp rise from 193 million the …
your ads here!US Announces Massive Crackdown on Darknet Fentanyl Trafficking
In a massive global crackdown on fentanyl trafficking on the darknet, U.S. and international law enforcement agencies have arrested nearly 300 suspects and seized a large cache of drugs, cash, …
your ads here!Loneliness Poses Risks as Deadly as Smoking, US Surgeon General Says
Widespread loneliness in the U.S. poses health risks as deadly as smoking a dozen cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually, the U.S. surgeon general said Tuesday …
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