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New regulations come into force Monday in Britain banning daytime TV and online adverts for so-called junk foods, in what the government calls a "world-leading action" to tackle childhood obesity. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-uk-junk-food-ads-daytime.html Mon, 05 Jan 2026 04:46:23 EST news686810738 New Delhi recorded more than 200,000 cases of acute respiratory illnesses at six state-run hospitals between 2022 and 2024, government numbers showed, highlighting the adverse effects of toxic air on health. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-delhi-respiratory-illness-cases-due.html Wed, 03 Dec 2025 10:20:03 EST news683979436 South Africa, Eswatini and Zambia on Monday began administering a groundbreaking HIV-prevention injection in the drug's first public rollouts in Africa, which has the world's highest HIV burden. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-groundbreaking-hiv-shots-africa.html Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:21:37 EST news683803250 The Maldives began implementing a smoking ban Saturday on anyone born after January 2007, becoming the only nation with a generational prohibition on tobacco, the Health Ministry said. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-maldives-generational.html Sat, 01 Nov 2025 07:20:01 EDT news681199492 Globally, nearly half of the deaths of children under five years are linked to malnutrition. In Kenya, it's the leading cause of illness and death among children. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-child-malnutrition-kenya-ai-months.html Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:06:05 EDT news679147561 Spain's minority left-wing government approved on Tuesday a proposal to ban smoking and vaping in outdoor spaces including bar terraces, parks and outside schools in a move to protect public health. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-spain-bar-terraces.html Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:24:05 EDT news676650240 The lack of reliable information about health facilities across sub-Saharan Africa became very clear during the COVID-19 pandemic. Amid a surge in emergency care needs, information was lacking about the location of facilities, bed capacity and oxygen availability, and even where to find medical specialists. This data could have enabled precise assessments of hospital surge capacity and geographic access to critical care. Peter Macharia and Emelda Okiro, whose research focuses on public health and equity of health service access in low resource settings, share the findings of their recent study, co-authored with colleagues. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-closest-hospital-clinic-africa-date.html Wed, 02 Jul 2025 12:31:04 EDT news670678261 Cambodia registered its fifth bird flu death this year after a 52-year-old man died from the virus, the health ministry said on Saturday. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06-cambodia-bird-flu-death-year.html Sun, 22 Jun 2025 05:07:09 EDT news669787624 Procuring lifesaving drugs is a daunting challenge in many low- and middle-income countries. Essential treatments are often neither available nor affordable in these nations, even decades after the drugs entered the market. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06-countries-band-lifesaving-drugs-cheaper.html Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:53:06 EDT news669387182 A cholera outbreak in Sudan's capital has killed 70 people in two days, health officials said, as Khartoum battles a fast-spreading epidemic amid a collapse of basic services. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-05-cholera-outbreak-sudan-capital-days.html Thu, 29 May 2025 05:02:17 EDT news667713730 A fast-spreading cholera outbreak has hit Sudan, killing 172 people, with more than 2,500 others becoming ill in the past week. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-05-cholera-outbreak-sudan-people.html Wed, 28 May 2025 16:40:04 EDT news667668316 Cambodia registered its fourth death from bird flu this year, double last year's toll, after an 11-year-old boy died from the virus, authorities said Wednesday. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-05-cambodia-fourth-bird-flu-death.html Wed, 28 May 2025 04:38:54 EDT news667625929 Sierra Leone is facing an increase in recorded mpox infections, with 177 new cases reported in recent days, a health ministry official told AFP. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-health-workers-sierra-leone-surge.html Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:12:23 EDT news664989138 Uganda declared the end of an Ebola virus outbreak Saturday, which has killed at least two people in the east African nation since late January. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-uganda-declares-6th-ebola-outbreak.html Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:50:01 EDT news664897357 Kenya's government urged vigilance on Wednesday as it tackles a cholera outbreak that has killed at least five people, a health ministry official said. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-kenya-cholera-outbreak-health.html Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:50:03 EDT news663424185 Sierra Leone on Wednesday started injecting frontline health care workers and high-risk individuals and children from age 12 with a preventive mpox vaccination after securing 61,300 doses from the World Health Organization and development partners. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-sierra-leone-mpox-vaccination-cases.html Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:30:01 EDT news662824876 Nearly 100 people died of cholera in two weeks since the waterborne disease outbreak began in Sudan's White Nile State, an international aid group said. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03-people-died-cholera-month-sudan.html Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:30:14 EST news660568511 At least 70 people have died from cholera and more than 2,200 have been infected in southern Sudan over the past week, Save the Children said Thursday, citing health ministry data. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-02-sudan-cholera-outbreak-week.html Thu, 27 Feb 2025 13:59:19 EST news659887154 A two-year-old girl has died from bird flu in Cambodia, officials said, the Southeast Asian nation's second death from the virus this year. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-02-cambodian-toddler-dies-bird-flu.html Wed, 26 Feb 2025 04:40:27 EST news659767224 Uganda has confirmed nine cases of the deadly disease Ebola, the health ministry said Tuesday, raising the count in its latest outbreak from three. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-02-uganda-ebola-cases.html Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:03:25 EST news658501397 A 28-year-old Cambodian man died from bird flu on Friday after eating sick chickens, the health ministry said. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-01-cambodian-dies-bird-flu.html Fri, 10 Jan 2025 10:59:23 EST news655729139 France has detected its first case of a new mpox virus, the health ministry said Monday, weeks after the World Health Organization maintained its highest alert level amid the epidemic. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-01-france-mpox-variant-case.html Tue, 07 Jan 2025 05:23:08 EST news655449785 Uganda on Wednesday confirmed a prison inmate has contracted mpox in a central area that is the epicenter of the outbreak in the East African country. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-10-uganda-mpox-case-prison.html Wed, 09 Oct 2024 06:13:41 EDT news647673218 Five more people in Rwanda have died of the deadly Ebola-like Marburg disease, bringing the number of fatalities to 11, the health ministry said late Tuesday. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-10-toll-rwanda-marburg-outbreak.html Wed, 02 Oct 2024 04:54:41 EDT news647063672 Hospital doctors in England have accepted a 22.3-percent government pay offer, their union and the health ministry said Monday, ending a wave of damaging strikes that hit patient care. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-uk-doctors-pay.html Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:33:03 EDT news645723179 Cases of the mpox virus have killed two people in Cameroon since April with six further and 40 other suspected cases, the health ministry said Wednesday. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-mpox-cameroon-cases-govt.html Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:49:26 EDT news645284962 India on Monday said it had verified an "isolated" mpox case but said it was not the new strain of the virus driving the ongoing global health emergency. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-india-isolates-mpox-case.html Mon, 09 Sep 2024 04:37:19 EDT news645075433 Guinea has confirmed its first case of mpox, the health ministry in the West African nation said Wednesday, without giving further details. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-guinea-mpox-case.html Wed, 04 Sep 2024 15:00:02 EDT news644680067 Uganda has detected its first two cases of mpox (monkeypox), the health ministry said on Saturday, a day after the Africa Union allocated $10.4 million in funding to combat the outbreak. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-08-uganda-cases-mpox.html Sun, 04 Aug 2024 05:10:02 EDT news641965884 Kenya has detected its first case of mpox, the health ministry said Wednesday, as the regional East African bloc urged caution in the face of an outbreak. 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