News on Health/Science

April 19th - April 25th, 2025

​

Saturday/Sunday - April 19th - 20th

• How to get your kids to sleep earlier and the signs of sleep deprivation

• Alibaba’s AI cancer detection tool clears FDA hurdle for faster approval process

• How the closure of EPA offices puts poor and minority communities at risk

 

Monday - April 21st

• As Trump eyes coal revival, his job cuts hobble black lung protections for miners

• The Scramble to Save Rural Health Care From DOGE

• Keeping Kids Interested in Science Is a Matter of Language

• Ozempic Shots Have Taken Off. Why Haven’t GLP-1 Pills?

• To Reduce Dementia Risk, Treat High Blood Pressure

• Rise in life-threatening meningococcal infections in Hong Kong sparks jabs call

• How the ‘12-3-30’ treadmill workout is still helping people lose weight

• Examining RFK Jr.'s claims about measles, autism and diet as head of HHS

 

Tuesday - April 22nd

• Measles cases in Texas rise to 624, state health department says

• US measles battle hindered by confusion over health secretary response

• US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts

• Republican Senator asks RFK Jr. to save health unit that protects coal miners

• Childhood Asthma Will Worsen with Pollution Rollbacks and CDC Cuts

• Why Narcissists Emerge as Leaders Even in Childhood

• Why people are microdosing magic mushrooms and LSD for mental health

• Can this study from Chinese, French scientists help unlock secrets of the mind?

• Hongkongers with spinal cord injuries may regain mobility with help of new lab

 

Wednesday - April 23rd

• NIH autism study will pull from private medical records

• More Americans exposed to false claims about measles and its vaccines, KFF poll shows

• Firing Science Advisors Will Leave the U.S. Senseless

• US to phase out many synthetic food dyes, Kennedy and FDA head say

• Novavax shares soar after FDA request raises hope for COVID vaccine approval

• Beijing, Shanghai lead global construction of life sciences centres, CBRE says

• Antibiotic resistance could be solved by superbugs themselves, study shows

• A Chinese cave expert found something extraordinary. He fears it will be wrecked

• The world has lost a pope dedicated to the poor and the planet

• China fires back after White House site pushes Covid-19 ‘lab leak’ theory

• Swiss pharmaceuticals company Roche announces $50B investment in US over next 5 years

 

Thursday - April 24th

• US at tipping point for return of endemic measles

• Pork industry waits for Japanese encephalitis vaccine three years after viral outbreak

• Do you need mental health leave from work? How to approach the matter

• Trump science cuts target bird feeder research, AI literacy work and more

• Marie Curie’s Mentorship Led to Networks of Support for Female Scientists

​

Friday - April 25th

• US farm agency withdraws proposal aimed at lowering Salmonella risks in poultry

• Ozempic copies restricted after US judge denies injunction

• US pharma tariffs would raise US drug costs by $51 billion annually, report finds

• Immunisation prevents diseases and protects lives

• Fired, rehired, and fired again: Some federal workers find they're suddenly uninsured

• Science Isn’t about Domination. It’s about Democracy

• Why I don’t hesitate to use Mexican hospitals

• On a dairy farm run on Hindu principles, cow ‘friends’ yield milk and higher consciousness