The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), a children’s health organization created by Congress, proposed the use of racially biased hiring criteria in order to “dismantle … white supremacy culture.”
Obesity rates in the U.S. military surged during the coronavirus pandemic and its associated lockdowns, data released Sunday details.
Illegal immigration places a significant strain on America’s healthcare system, costing taxpayers and hospitals at least $23 billion every year.
Illegal immigration costs American taxpayers and hospitals billions of dollars in medical costs every year, the Federation for American Immigration Reform pointed out.
The Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health is developing a policy that could ban people from smoking in their own apartments.
President Joe Biden accused the Supreme Court during his 2023 State of the Union speech of taking away a woman’s “right” to end the life of her unborn child and said he would veto pro-life legislation should it reach his desk.
The University of Utah School of Medicine adopted a diversity agenda after being pressured by an accreditor.
A training video created by the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in partnership with the Fenway Institute encourages doctors to affirm the transgender identification of young children.
Parents are protesting plans for an opioid recovery center to open next to an after-school club for children.
A Denver police officer rescued a baby who stopped breathing during a parade on Thursday.
China’s state-run Global Times on Monday took great exception to the new chairman of the House Select Committee on China, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), describing the controversial Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok as “digital fentanyl.”
The fight against obesity is rooted in “racism,” according to a Scientific American essay that claimed black women “consistently experience weightism.
A national health organization centered around children’s health has come out in support of puberty blockers and hormones for children.
Brazilian Vice President Hamilton Mourão told the national newspaper O Globo on Wednesday that President Jair Bolsonaro’s prolonged absence from Planalto, the presidential office, was due to a painful skin condition that makes it impossible for him to wear pants.
A Democrat-nominated judge has unveiled a decision ordering the border agency to stop using the Title 42 anti-disease barrier to exclude wage-cutting economic migrants from the United States.
Montana voters rejected a ballot initiative during the midterm elections that would have mandated that infants who are born alive, including those who survive botched abortions, are legal persons entitled to life-saving medical care.
Democrat Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey wrote a letter urging the Biden administration to make testosterone more accessible to those who identify as transgender.
Italian media have returned to the practice of daily reporting on coronavirus cases in what many fear may be a lead-up to renewed mask mandates and obligatory vaccinations.
Eating worms could help humanity survive in a future world starved of food and nutrition, South Korean scientists outlined in a study published Wednesday, although they conceded the small, slimy invertebrates suffer something of an “image problem.”
South Korea recorded the world’s lowest fertility rate in 2021, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, noting that the development supports a current prediction by demographers that South Korea’s population of 51 million will more than halve by 2100.
China’s National Health Commission (NHC) told Reuters this week that ongoing Chinese coronavirus lockdowns nationwide have had a “clear impact on the marriage and childbirth arrangements of some people” within the country and have contributed to the nation’s plummeting fertility rate and shrinking population, the news agency reported on Tuesday.
Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin on Monday urged Indonesians not to worry about the recent global outbreak of monkeypox, noting at a press conference that while its signature sores would “definitely” make one “look ugly,” the disease has a low fatality rate.
More than 20 colleges and universities across six regions in China postponed the start of their fall semesters in recent days in an effort to curb local outbreaks of the Chinese coronavirus, the Global Times reported on Sunday.
The local government of Xiamen, China, recently ordered municipal workers to test both fishermen and their catch, including “live fish” and crabs, for the Chinese coronavirus out of alleged concern that international fishing activity in the area may have sparked local outbreaks of the virus, the Chinese government-controlled news outlet Sixth Tone on Thursday.
The World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) confirmed Wednesday a dog has been infected with monkeypox through contact with its owner.
Zimbabwe’s latest outbreak of measles — an infectious viral disease that typically occurs during childhood — has killed at least 157 children in the country in recent weeks and caused more than 2,000 cases of the disease nationwide, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Tuesday.
China’s central government issued new “fertility-friendly” guidelines on Tuesday designed to increase the Chinese population, which is currently projected to contract sometime before 2025 following decades of the Chinese Communist Party’s one-child policy, the Global Times reported.
Conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol met with billionaire Microsoft founder and vaccine advocate Bill Gates on Tuesday to discuss Seoul’s current and future plans to cooperate with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to further vaccine research and development both within South Korea and worldwide, Yonhap News Agency reported.
Sinopharm, a Chinese state-run pharmaceutical company, announced on Monday that it had submitted an application for clinical trials of an “Omicron-specific mRNA COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] vaccine [candidate]” that it allegedly produced, China’s state-run Global Times reported.
A.J. Rice, author of The Woking Dead, said zoomers are having their human authenticity undermined by Me Too, lockdowns, and digital overload.
Zimbabwe’s government last week blamed recent gatherings by members of the country’s various Apostolic sects for an ongoing outbreak of measles that has killed 80 children nationwide since April, Reuters reported on Sunday.
Tokyo has allegedly agreed to work jointly with the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) to create a new body of the U.N. public health agency that will promote universal health coverage in developing countries, Japanese Foreign Ministry sources told Kyodo News Thursday.
The government of New Delhi, India’s national capital, recently reinforced a sanitary mask mandate for public spaces in an effort to contain a recent spike in the number of local Chinese coronavirus cases, India’s WION news website reported on Friday.
Puberty blocker manufacturers are behind much of the push to normalize child sex-change attempts, funding doctors at pediatric transgender clinics, activist groups, and medical organizations that promote the practice.
Japan’s population dropped in 2021 by 726,342, which was the greatest decline margin documented since Tokyo began recording relevant data nearly a decade ago, Kyodo News reported on Tuesday.
Scientists from China and Singapore recently announced the detection of a novel animal-derived virus known as Langya henipavirus (LayV) in at least 35 humans across China’s eastern provinces of Henan and Shandong, China’s state-run Global Times reported on Tuesday, noting that the zoonotic virus is often found in shrews.
ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns the controversial video blogging platform TikTok, quietly took control of China’s largest chain of private obstetrics and gynecology hospitals in June.
An organization for alcoholism and drug abuse counselors claimed that “defensiveness” and “power-hoarding” are “white institutional values.”
A 22-year-old woman in eastern China’s Hangzhou city recently died after “days of overwork” in which she reportedly toiled nearly without pause for four to five consecutive days at an internet company, China’s state-run Global Times reported.
Russia’s population contracted by a record margin of about 86,000 people between January and May, the online newspaper Moscow Times reported on Friday, citing new data from the Russian statistics agency Rosstat.
