THE HINDU – Hyderabad’s Mitr Clinic, India’s first transgender healthcare centre, has shut down operations following an order from the U.S. President Donald Trump.
The closure comes in the wake of Mr. Trump’s decision to impose a 90-day freeze on all U.S. foreign assistance, including over $40 billion allocated for international projects through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The abrupt halt in funding impacted several initiatives globally, including Project ACCELERATE, under which Mitr...
The Floating Hospital receives over $4 million annually in federal grants for primary health care, according to Health Resources & Services Administration data.
CBS NEWS – A mystery illness has caused at least 60 deaths amid multiple outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, doctors say.
As of Feb. 19, 955 cases have been reported across at least two villages in a northwest region of the central African nation, according to the most recent bulletin from the World Health Organization's Africa office shared on Feb. 27.
Preliminary investigations traced the first outbreak to three children who became sick and...
YAHOO! NEWS – Multiple vaccine projects have been paused by the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy paused a multimillion-dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine, an advisory committee said Wednesday.
The Covid project was a $460 million contract with Vaxart to develop a new Covid vaccine...
THE HILL – Iowa’s Republican-led Legislature voted Thursday to remove gender identity as a protected class from the state’s civil rights code, sending the first-of-its-kind measure to Gov. Kim Reynolds (R).
The bill, first introduced last week, sped through the legislative process despite widespread opposition from Democrats and LGBTQ rights advocates who flooded the statehouse in Des Moines to protest its passage.
More than 2,500 people entered the building Thursday, the Des Moines Register reported, citing...
Mayo Clinic News Network – Does how much you sleep affect your heart?
According to health officials, adults who sleep fewer than seven hours each night are more likely to experience health problems.
Dr. Juan Cardenas Rosales, an internal medicine physician at Mayo Clinic, stresses that adequate sleep is crucial for your overall well-being, including your heart health.
Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute
Getting a good night's sleep can give you the energy to jump-start your day and your...
At least three people linked to Elon Musk’s DOGE task force have access to NIH systems that control budgets, procurement, and more, according to records and internal documents viewed by WIRED.
Fruit Juice
The fiber in whole fruit fills you up and slows down how your blood takes in energy. Without that fiber, you’re just drinking nutritious sugar-water that can quickly hype you up -- and bring you down just as fast.
That can leave you hungry and angry -- “hangry.” That won't help anxiety and depression. Eat your fruit whole. When you’re thirsty, drink water.
Regular Soda
There's no win for you here: It has all of the...
CNN – Subway is resurrecting its discounted footlong promotion, as stubbornly high inflation has led to a sluggish start to the year across the fast-food industry.
Restaurant chains have scrambled over the past year to attract customers who are fed up with high prices.
Although some have succeeded with limited-time promotions, others like McDonald’s, Chili’s and Taco Bell have found more success with offering value meals.
Americans continue to be willing to spend – if they feel...
Mayo Clinic News Network – The Office of the Surgeon General recently released a new Advisory on Alcohol and Cancer Risk.
It outlines a connection between drinking alcohol and increased risk of cancer, specifically cancers of the mouth, throat, voice box, esophagus, breast, liver and colon.
The advisory has recommendations to increase awareness, including updating the existing Surgeon General's health warning label on alcohol-containing beverages.
According to Dr. Donald Hensrud, a Mayo Clinic physician specializing in preventive medicine and...
Against the H3N2 strain of influenza, which this season has made up just over half of the influenza A viruses scrutinized by the agency, only around 50.9% of the samples were "well-recognized" by the antibodies.
AOL – We all love pizza.
We love it so much that we won't be stopped even if we can't get it fresh, and nowhere is that more evident than the shelves of the frozen section of any grocery store.
So many different brands and styles line the walls, but which actually has the best bang for your buck?
We went straight to the source (the grocery store), and taste-tested a ton of 'em to find...