‘People are starving to death’: Famine ‘imminent’ in northern Gaza, experts warn

‘People are starving to death’: Famine ‘imminent’ in northern Gaza, experts warn

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The WFP estimates that simply addressing the basic food needs will require at least 300 trucks to enter Gaza every day and distribute food, particularly in the north, where the WFP has only managed to take nine convoys since the start of the … Read more

Unprecedented outbreak of dengue surges across Brazil

Unprecedented outbreak of dengue surges across Brazil

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Reported cases are close to two million so far this year, making it the seventh worst outbreak since 2000, according data from the PAHO. In the first two months of this year alone, Peru was forced to declare a health emergency across much … Read more

For centuries we have plundered our planet. Now we are paying the price

For centuries we have plundered our planet. Now we are paying the price

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE WHO estimates that pollution, waste and chemicals account for an estimated 14 million deaths a year, or about a quarter of the global disease burden.  The impacts are not equal. People in low- and middle-income countries bear the brunt of the health consequences, … Read more

More than 800 ‘good-looking’ people rescued from love scam centre

More than 800 ‘good-looking’ people rescued from love scam centre

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Police found the compound after a Vietnamese man climbed the wall to escape and raised the alarm. In his 30s, he arrived in the Philippines in January after landing a role as a chef.  But he soon realised the job did not exist: … Read more

How the grisly discovery of a ‘foetus mortuary’ re-shaped Thailand’s abortion laws

How the grisly discovery of a ‘foetus mortuary’ re-shaped Thailand’s abortion laws

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “Normally monks don’t really talk about abortion, many would say it is a sin,” Phra Shine says now, surrounded by orange robes in his temple lodgings on the outskirts of Bangkok.  “I think this is based on a one-dimensional interpretation of Buddhism … … Read more

This Ramadan in Gaza, there will be no dates to break the fast

This Ramadan in Gaza, there will be no dates to break the fast

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Every year when the sun sets during Ramadan, Muslims break the daytime fast with a date – just as the Prophet Mohammed did.  But this Ramadan in Gaza, where lack of food is forcing families to eat leaves and animal food to survive, … Read more

Healthy humans will be deliberately infected with Covid in bid to develop nasal spray vaccine

Healthy humans will be deliberately infected with Covid in bid to develop nasal spray vaccine

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Healthy volunteers are to be deliberately infected with diseases including Covid-19 in a bid to develop nasal spray vaccines that block the spread of coronaviruses. The £44 million programme, led by Imperial College London, aims to develop next-generation vaccines that not only reduce … Read more

How Covid killed off a deadly strain of flu

How Covid killed off a deadly strain of flu

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Juliet Morrison, assistant professor in the microbiology and plant pathology department at the University of California, Riverside, said she was “excited to hear the news that the Yamagata virus was no longer a threat to public health.” “This is a win for all … Read more

Global child mortality rates dropped to a ‘historic’ low in 2022, UN says

Global child mortality rates dropped to a ‘historic’ low in 2022, UN says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The world is still falling short of the UN’s target of reducing preventable deaths to 25 per 1,000 births in under fives by 2030. Without urgent investment in children’s health, 59 countries will fall short of that goal, researchers warned. Child deaths are … Read more

Almost 230,000 children and new mothers could starve to death in Sudan, experts warn

Almost 230,000 children and new mothers could starve to death in Sudan, experts warn

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Nearly 230,000 children, pregnant women and new mothers in Sudan could die from starvation in the coming months, experts have warned. The East African nation has been engulfed by war and fighting since April 2023. Since then, more than 10 million people have … Read more

South Africa’s alcohol addiction and the generation of newborns paying the price

South Africa’s alcohol addiction and the generation of newborns paying the price

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE In a culture where alcohol is readily available, drinking also becomes a way of coping.  “Many of these women find themselves in a hopeless situation,” said Dr Olivier. “They tell us that to cope with the day, they have to drink because that … Read more

The mine that sparked a civil war but could bankroll the world’s next nation

The mine that sparked a civil war but could bankroll the world’s next nation

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Politician Theonila Roka Matbob lives downstream from the open pit, and she sees the consequences of the last mining epoch every day. Polluted water flow from the mine pit into nearby rivers and erosion from the mounds of mine tailings left by Rio … Read more

The rise of live-streamed child abuse – and Britain’s role in it

The rise of live-streamed child abuse – and Britain’s role in it

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE As evidence accumulates and awareness of live-streamed child abuse increases, the profile and methods of those involved in this horrifying crime are slowly beginning to emerge. A recently published study from Nottingham University explored 28 cases of British men who had live streamed … Read more

Why India’s ‘Vaccine Prince’ fears the world is still unprepared for another pandemic

Why India’s ‘Vaccine Prince’ fears the world is still unprepared for another pandemic

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE But elsewhere, efforts to enhance vaccine manufacturing capability pale in comparison, especially in the UK.  “When you look, scratch beneath the surface, it is nothing,” Clive Dix, the former head of the Covid vaccine taskforce, told the Telegraph. “In the whole environment for … Read more

Israel says his agency is a ‘Hamas front’ – this is his response

Israel says his agency is a ‘Hamas front’ – this is his response

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Here in the UK, Foreign Secretary David Cameron is understood to have lost patience at the lack of aid making its way into Gaza. One source close to the former PM said he believes the government may have jumped the gun in withdrawing … Read more

Churches burned and children ‘seized’ as militants target Christians in Mozambique

Churches burned and children ‘seized’ as militants target Christians in Mozambique

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The attack was the security forces’ heaviest loss of life since the March 2021 attack on Palma. There have been other attacks in Chiure, where several churches were burned, as well as in Macomia, Meluco and Quissanga. Islamic State supporters have hailed the … Read more

FGM cases rise by 30 million in the last decade, report shows

FGM cases rise by 30 million in the last decade, report shows

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Somalia, Guinea and Djibouti have the highest levels of FGM in the world, where the 90 per cent of the countries’ adult female population have been mutilated in some form, the Unicef study said.  Although rates in places including Kenya, Nigeria, and Iraq … Read more

How Gen Z is fighting back against binge drinking in South Korea

How Gen Z is fighting back against binge drinking in South Korea

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The aftermath can go far beyond next day embarrassment and have serious health implications, public health bodies have warned. According to Alcohol Change UK, alcohol intolerance affects between a third and a half of East Asian people. Worldwide, around 540 million people whose … Read more

WHO warns of growing resistance to first-line HIV drug

WHO warns of growing resistance to first-line HIV drug

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Resistance to a widely used HIV drug is growing among patients, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, sparking concern among scientists. Dolutegravir has been recommended by the WHO as the preferred first-line treatment for HIV since 2018 and is currently used by … Read more

The ‘spiritual Ponzi schemes’ bringing exponential wealth to African prophets

The ‘spiritual Ponzi schemes’ bringing exponential wealth to African prophets

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE According to a pastor who was a longstanding colleague of Prophet Magaya, their success is built on creating powerful personality cults with a dictatorial hierarchy. He recalls how the catalyst for Magaya’s transformation was a visit to Nigeria to meet with TB Joshua, … Read more

Cervical cancer is becoming a preventable disease – but only if you live in the right country

Cervical cancer is becoming a preventable disease – but only if you live in the right country

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The world has a remarkable opportunity to eliminate a cancer for the first time in history. In January, Public Health Scotland found zero cases of cervical cancer among women who were vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV) – the virus that causes 95 per … Read more

Revealed: Inside Wuhan’s failed Covid response – and how the pandemic could have been avoided

Revealed: Inside Wuhan’s failed Covid response – and how the pandemic could have been avoided

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE By January 20, the credibility gap between the official rhetoric and reality was so wide, it was left to Dr Zhong Nanshan, 83, an esteemed and trusted veteran of the first SARS epidemic, to break the bad news to the public that the … Read more

Palestinian children subject to ‘starvation and beatings’ in Israeli prisons, charities say

Palestinian children subject to ‘starvation and beatings’ in Israeli prisons, charities say

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Jason Lee, Save the Children’s Country Director for Palestinian territories, said that the abuse of children in military detention was already a “child protection crisis” before October 7, and said it has “only become worse.” “What we know about how these children are … Read more

Scores of elephants killed in Botswana amid poaching surge

Scores of elephants killed in Botswana amid poaching surge

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE But Chris Thouless, research director at the Elephant Crisis Fund, cautioned that the high proportion of carcasses could be a natural phenomenon. He said: “This data is not inconsistent with a higher mortality rate from poaching, but is not strong evidence for it.” … Read more

How Canada’s flourishing far-right movement is fuelling violent Islamophobia

How Canada’s flourishing far-right movement is fuelling violent Islamophobia

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE This increase is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore, especially when looking at Canada’s most deadly terror attacks – both carried out by white nationalists who shared the same Islamophobic agenda. “If you look at [Veltman’s] narrative, he was very explicit that he had … Read more

How South Africa’s ‘pit toilets’ became a damning symbol of the nation’s inequality

How South Africa’s ‘pit toilets’ became a damning symbol of the nation’s inequality

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE How South Africa’s ‘pit toilets’ became a damning symbol of the nation’s inequality . MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE

Britain’s ‘crumbling’ pandemic infrastructure needs urgent investment, spending watchdog warns

Britain’s ‘crumbling’ pandemic infrastructure needs urgent investment, spending watchdog warns

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE However, the NAO said that the old age of the centre’s laboratories can “present challenges with respect to meeting the standards required by licensing bodies such as the Health and Safety Executive”. This, in turn, “can result in increasing operational and maintenance costs … Read more

‘They kill and play with their victims’ bodies like dolls’: The elephants terrorising Thailand

‘They kill and play with their victims’ bodies like dolls’: The elephants terrorising Thailand

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Yet the cost of these ‘elephant buffets’ is acute for farmers. And in the villages to the north of Khao Ang Rue Nai Wildlife Preserve in Chachoengsao, almost everyone seems to have paid a price. “Friends have seen their 10 rai [four acre] … Read more

Peru declares health emergency as dengue cases soar

Peru declares health emergency as dengue cases soar

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Peru has declared a health emergency across much of the country in response to a surge in dengue fever cases. Roughly 32,000 people have caught the virus, which is spread by mosquitoes, in the first eight weeks of the year, while 32 deaths … Read more

China’s ‘fertility crisis’ and the women rejecting motherhood

China’s ‘fertility crisis’ and the women rejecting motherhood

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “Among people striving to make a living in large cities, most of my friends resist having a second child,” she said. “The current societal/work environment is unfriendly towards pregnant women and mothers of young children. It is hard for me now to find … Read more

Scientists one step closer to universal ‘holy grail’ antivenom

Scientists one step closer to universal ‘holy grail’ antivenom

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The team hopes 95Mat5 could form the basis of the first monoclonal antibody treatment used against snake bites. Because it would be based on a human molecule, rather than “foreign” horse antibodies, it should also be “safer than current antivenom”, said Prof Casewell.  … Read more

Long-lasting HIV jab marks ‘new era for prevention’ in Africa

Long-lasting HIV jab marks ‘new era for prevention’ in Africa

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE A long-lasting injection to protect people from HIV has been administered for the first time in Africa, in what experts have called one of the most important breakthroughs in the prevention of the disease to date. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is already available in … Read more

Children ‘starting to die from malnutrition’ in northern Gaza as food crisis worsens

Children ‘starting to die from malnutrition’ in northern Gaza as food crisis worsens

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Children are now dying from malnutrition and starvation in Gaza, with further deaths expected to be reported after food deliveries to the north of the enclave were suspended due to security concerns, medical and humanitarian workers have said. The UN has been warning … Read more

Sexual violence against Palestinian women ‘may be higher than first thought,’ says UN expert

Sexual violence against Palestinian women ‘may be higher than first thought,’ says UN expert

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The allegations come as Israeli authorities released an official report, the first of its kind, on the alleged “sadistic sex crimes” committed by Hamas militants against Israeli citizens on October 7, including mass rapes and the mutilation of women. Published on Tuesday by … Read more

More than half of the world at ‘high’ risk of measles outbreaks, WHO warns

More than half of the world at ‘high’ risk of measles outbreaks, WHO warns

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Confirmed cases jumped to 300,000 in 2023, a 79 per cent increase from 2022, according to WHO data. This is a fraction of the nine million infections estimated to occur every year. Outbreaks have recently been reported in America, Australia, Africa, Central Asia, … Read more

Creating a ‘smoke-free generation’ is a unique chance to lead the world in tackling tobacco

Creating a ‘smoke-free generation’ is a unique chance to lead the world in tackling tobacco

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Tobacco ruins lives. It causes conditions ranging from stillbirth and asthma to dementia and cancer, leads to over 400,000 hospital admissions a year, and ultimately kills two in three lifetime smokers.  Over the coming weeks, MPs will debate new laws to create a … Read more

This polio doctor believed he had a ‘sacred’ duty to vaccinate children – now he is dead

This polio doctor believed he had a ‘sacred’ duty to vaccinate children – now he is dead

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Officials at the United Nations children’s body, Unicef, said Dr Rehman was the first doctor to be killed on duty. His daughter, Zakira, told the Telegraph: “He regarded his duty as very sacred and always tried to reach the accessible population and convince … Read more

Scientists race to develop rapid testing for two of the world’s deadliest pathogens

Scientists race to develop rapid testing for two of the world’s deadliest pathogens

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Nipah is a zoonotic disease that attacks the brain and has a fatality rate as high as 70 per cent. It is carried by fruit bats, also known as ‘flying foxes’, and can be spread from person to person. Outbreaks of Nipah virus … Read more

England and Wales in whooping cough epidemic, experts warn

England and Wales in whooping cough epidemic, experts warn

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE England and Wales are experiencing a whooping-cough epidemic as case numbers boom across the two countries, experts have warned.  There have been 1,416 recorded cases of the ‘100-day cough’ since the beginning of January, representing a 24-fold increase on the same period last … Read more

DNA bought online could be used to create dangerous pathogens, experts warn

DNA bought online could be used to create dangerous pathogens, experts warn

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE More regulation is needed to prevent malicious actors from buying DNA online and using it to fabricate dangerous pathogens, experts have warned. DNA – the building blocks of life – can be easily produced in laboratories and sold for all manner of purposes, … Read more

Asian superbug spreads in European hospitals

Asian superbug spreads in European hospitals

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE A superbug endemic to Asia is spreading in European hospitals, health officials have warned.  Cases of the bacteria, known as hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae, have risen by 1,000 per cent since 2021 – from 12 to 143 infections, according to the European Centre for … Read more

AI, climate change, pandemics and nuclear warfare puts humanity in ‘grave danger’, open letter warns

AI, climate change, pandemics and nuclear warfare puts humanity in ‘grave danger’, open letter warns

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Climate change, pandemics, nuclear warfare and artificial intelligence all pose an existential threat to humanity and need to be addressed with “wisdom and urgency”, more than 100 politicians, academics, and celebrities have warned in an open letter. The signatories, including Annie Lennox, Richard … Read more

Rafah offensive would create ‘a human disaster beyond imagination’, WHO doctors warn

Rafah offensive would create ‘a human disaster beyond imagination’, WHO doctors warn

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Speaking to reporters in Geneva via video-link from Rafah in southern Gaza, he described how patients were frequently undergoing unnecessary amputations of limbs that could have been saved under ordinary circumstances. Decrying the “shrinking humanitarian space” in the Gaza Strip, he accused Israel … Read more

Conflict and climate change are supercharging malaria, but it can be stopped

Conflict and climate change are supercharging malaria, but it can be stopped

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE What is less well known is the fact that ongoing conflicts are also worsening the global malaria pandemic by forcing mass displacement and disrupting health systems. As the post-coup conflict in Myanmar undermines health services and displaces entire communities, malaria is making a … Read more

Has Joe Biden finally had enough of Benjamin Netanyahu?

Has Joe Biden finally had enough of Benjamin Netanyahu?

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Has Joe Biden finally had enough of Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and, if so, will he take any action beyond swearing about him? On Monday it was widely reported the US President had described the Israeli leader as an “a–hole” and might start to … Read more

China is experimenting on mutant Covid strains again – should we be worried?

China is experimenting on mutant Covid strains again – should we be worried?

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE But despite the controversy and potential risks, it is not just Chinese scientists who are poking and prodding at coronavirus strains in a bid to better understand them. With the worst days of the pandemic behind us, there has been a boom in … Read more

Mosquito swarms bring ‘triple whammy’ of infectious disease to Timor-Leste

Mosquito swarms bring ‘triple whammy’ of infectious disease to Timor-Leste

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Zika hit the headlines as it swept through South America in 2015 and 2016, causing clusters of microcephaly and other neurological disorders in babies.  Though cases have since declined, approximately 40,230 infections were recorded in 2022 – a figure experts fear could rise … Read more

Elderly man becomes first ever recorded death from ‘Alaskapox’

Elderly man becomes first ever recorded death from ‘Alaskapox’

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The Alaska Department of Health also warned that domestic pets such as cats and dogs “may also play a role in spreading the virus.”  Dr Stathis Giotis, a Research Fellow at the Department of Infectious Disease at Imperial College London, said scientists had … Read more

‘My husband died alone of cholera – I wasn’t told until 11 days later’

‘My husband died alone of cholera – I wasn’t told until 11 days later’

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Children have been hardest hit in Zambia, accounting for one in three deaths to date. The reason for this is that most infected toddlers often show little symptoms.  Yankho Mataya, country director for the charity WaterAid, said she has heard of many instances … Read more

‘A tornado of fire’: How El Niño sparked Chile’s worst firestorm

‘A tornado of fire’: How El Niño sparked Chile’s worst firestorm

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE ‘A tornado of fire’. How El Niño sparked Chile’s worst firestorm . MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE

Carnival party-goers told to cover up as mosquito-borne virus surges in Rio de Janeiro

Carnival party-goers told to cover up as mosquito-borne virus surges in Rio de Janeiro

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Known as ‘breakbone fever’ – because it can cause severe joint pain – dengue is spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Other symptoms include a high fever, headache, vomiting, and an itchy skin rash. In rare cases, the disease can cause severe bleeding, … Read more

It happened on Call The Midwife – now NHS nurses deal with thousands of cases a year

It happened on Call The Midwife – now NHS nurses deal with thousands of cases a year

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE During this time, and with the help of a translator, the midwives guide the women through key questions, asking if they’ve discussed FGM with their families, when it was performed, and at what age.  After this, the midwives will repeatedly visit patients’ homes … Read more

Why Gaza’s dire water crisis has been decades in the making

Why Gaza’s dire water crisis has been decades in the making

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The lack of hygiene facilities in Gaza’s refugee camps is of notable concern. At some shelters, there is only one toilet for each 500 to 700 persons – “a terrible recipe for the spread of waterborne diseases,” said Crickx.  The statistics speak for … Read more

Five billion people could be without clean drinking water by 2050, study warns

Five billion people could be without clean drinking water by 2050, study warns

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The number of people without access to clean drinking water could jump by three billion by 2050, a study tracking the spread of toxic pollution into waterways has warned. According to the World Bank, some two billion people across the globe do not … Read more

The new mile-high club: Why airline toilets could give early warning of the next pandemic

The new mile-high club: Why airline toilets could give early warning of the next pandemic

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “We got the idea from our quarantine centres and hotels during the pandemic,” said Dr Rome Buathong, director of international communicable disease control at the Ministry of Public Health’s port and quarantine unit.  “We thought, if it works there, why don’t we test … Read more

Measles cases to double in England and Wales, experts warn

Measles cases to double in England and Wales, experts warn

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE However, in cities such as Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and Nottingham, only 75 per cent of 5-year-olds are fully vaccinated, NHS figures show. Nationally, 85 per cent of the population is protected with two doses.  The West Midlands is considered the epicentre of the … Read more

‘They’ve lost everything’: What now for Gaza’s 17,000 orphans?

‘They’ve lost everything’: What now for Gaza’s 17,000 orphans?

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Jonathan Crickx, chief of comms at Unicef Palestine, last week visited a centre in the south of the Strip that hosts and cares for unaccompanied children in the besieged enclave. He said he met two young cousins, a six-year-old boy and a four-year-old … Read more

I lost more than 60 relatives in Gaza – entire families have been erased

I lost more than 60 relatives in Gaza – entire families have been erased

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The youngest to die was my baby cousin Bahaa, just 10 months old. He was killed alongside his siblings Jamal, aged six, and Ghady (10) on the third floor. They lived next to my cousins Ahmed (35) and Asmaa (34) and their three … Read more

Executions and public floggings rise in Yemen under Houthis’ reign of terror

Executions and public floggings rise in Yemen under Houthis’ reign of terror

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Ms Jararnia said there has been a rise in public torture and executions since the Houthis began attacking ships in the Red Sea. Rashid Maarouf, from the Yemeni army’s media unit, made a similar claim. “Many of the death sentences were issued after … Read more

The secret rewilding project that could save the white rhino

The secret rewilding project that could save the white rhino

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Some 12,000 rhinos are estimated to have been killed in the past decade. Four-fifths of those remaining are in South Africa, with smaller populations in Kenya, Uganda, Namibia, Zambia, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. African Parks estimates that to secure the … Read more

Majority of UN workers killed in Gaza died while ‘off duty,’ data reveals

Majority of UN workers killed in Gaza died while ‘off duty,’ data reveals

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Major General Charlie Herbert, a former British army officer and an expert on urban warfare, told the Telegraph that “the apparently high proportion of UNRWA staff killed by the IDF in the first months of the war warrants further investigation”. Consideration should be … Read more

UNRWA cannot operate without Hamas – no wonder it has a neutrality problem

UNRWA cannot operate without Hamas – no wonder it has a neutrality problem

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Ten days ago, UNRWA’s leadership in Jordan announced that Israel had provided it with evidence that agency staff had been involved in the October 7 massacre. According to a briefing given to the Telegraph by a senior Israeli official on Thursday, Israeli intelligence … Read more

‘Measles destroyed my health – my parents didn’t vaccinate me’

‘Measles destroyed my health – my parents didn’t vaccinate me’

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is “a very rare, but fatal” disease of the central nervous system that results from a measles virus infection acquired earlier in life, says the CDC. It typically develops seven to 10 years after a person has measles, “even … Read more

Carmakers could be complicit in abuse of China’s Uyghurs, report says

Carmakers could be complicit in abuse of China’s Uyghurs, report says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Jim Wormington, a senior researcher and advocate for corporate accountability at Human Rights Watch, said: “Car companies simply don’t know the extent of their links to forced labour in Xinjiang in their aluminium supply chains. “Consumers should know their cars might contain materials … Read more

Carmakers could be complicit in abuse of China’s Uyghurs, report says

Carmakers could be complicit in abuse of China’s Uyghurs, report says

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Jim Wormington, a senior researcher and advocate for corporate accountability at Human Rights Watch, said: “Car companies simply don’t know the extent of their links to forced labour in Xinjiang in their aluminium supply chains. “Consumers should know their cars might contain materials … Read more

Hundreds of penguin chicks die of bird flu in Falklands, millions more at risk

Hundreds of penguin chicks die of bird flu in Falklands, millions more at risk

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Ms Heathman said that scientists are now awaiting test results from more of the island’s penguins and are “preparing for a large-scale outbreak” of bird flu. The newly recorded deaths confirm for the first time that gentoo penguins are susceptible to the disease. … Read more

Famine ‘wonder pill’ could turn the tide against childhood malnutrition and stunting

Famine ‘wonder pill’ could turn the tide against childhood malnutrition and stunting

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Throughout pregnancy, women need up to 50 per cent more nutrients than normal to lower the risk of stunting. But research has found that women just aren’t receiving the care and nutrition they desperately need.  The number of pregnant and breastfeeding women along … Read more

Children at the centre of a dangerous mpox outbreak ‘accelerating’ in DRC

Children at the centre of a dangerous mpox outbreak ‘accelerating’ in DRC

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Limited response The response to mpox has been hampered by a lack of resources.  The DRC does not have any rapid tests available to diagnose the clade one virus and there are only two laboratories nationwide for handling samples taken from suspected cases, … Read more

Blast injuries make Gaza war ‘worst in four decades’ for Israeli troops

Blast injuries make Gaza war ‘worst in four decades’ for Israeli troops

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The ongoing conflict in Gaza is the deadliest Israel has fought since the Yom Kippur War, which erupted on October 6, 1973, when a coalition of Arab forces launched a surprise attack from the Golan Heights and Sinai Peninsula. Although the war lasted … Read more

UK aid cuts having ‘devastating’ impact on women’s health, MPs warn

UK aid cuts having ‘devastating’ impact on women’s health, MPs warn

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “The cuts have had a devastating impact on the Foreign Office’s work on sexual and reproductive health, and has damaged the UK’s reputation as a credible and serious partner [in the aid sector],” said Ms Champion. After the government cut its foreign aid … Read more

Health was enshrined as a human right 75 years ago – but this is not the reality for too many

Health was enshrined as a human right 75 years ago – but this is not the reality for too many

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE World health is changing. The impacts of climate change, pandemics, and pollution are the defining health challenges of our time. Add to that the unstoppable rise of non-communicable diseases like heart disease, the continued threat of malaria, tuberculosis and HIV, and stubbornly high … Read more

Bird flu kills 17,000 elephant seal pups in Argentina

Bird flu kills 17,000 elephant seal pups in Argentina

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Bird flu has wiped out more than 17,000 southern elephant seal pups in Argentina, scientists say. An estimated 95 per cent of the population at the Valdes Peninsula in the south of the country were found dead in November, according to a report … Read more

Europe reports ‘alarming rise’ in measles after cases surge in 2023

Europe reports ‘alarming rise’ in measles after cases surge in 2023

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of an “alarming rise” in measles after cases increased 44-fold throughout Europe in 2023. Some 42,200 infections were detected across the continent in the first 10 months of 2023 – up from 941 total cases in … Read more

Cameroon launches world’s first routine malaria vaccine programme

Cameroon launches world’s first routine malaria vaccine programme

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE In 2022, there were an estimated 249 million malaria cases and 608,000 deaths in 85 countries, according to WHO figures. Africa bears the brunt of the disease, accounting for 95 of all global infections. Disruptions linked to the Covid-19 pandemic, rising insecticide resistance, … Read more

How moths could be used to grow the next generation of pandemic vaccines

How moths could be used to grow the next generation of pandemic vaccines

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The approach is used to create protein-based vaccines, not the mRNA shots developed by firms including BioNTech and Moderna to protect against Covid-19. Cepi, which described the chrysalis as “living bioreactors”, said this new approach could save critical time and allow more vaccines … Read more

‘They’re sharing beds’: Inside Gaza’s last functioning maternity units

‘They’re sharing beds’: Inside Gaza’s last functioning maternity units

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE One woman, Maha from northern Gaza, told Ms Rogeret that she rushed to the closest hospital when she went into labour, but couldn’t be treated as all the delivery rooms were full. “She knew something wasn’t right, that she needed to be admitted. … Read more

Sudan’s military ‘arms child soldiers’ as country inches towards civil war

Sudan’s military ‘arms child soldiers’ as country inches towards civil war

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE On one side are the militiamen of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary whose violence has haunting echoes of Sudan’s genocide that began almost 20 years ago, and on the other is the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). Currently, the RSF, believed to … Read more

Gaza’s displaced women and girls at ‘severe risk’ of physical and sexual violence

Gaza’s displaced women and girls at ‘severe risk’ of physical and sexual violence

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Gaza’s displaced women and girls face severe danger of physical and sexual violence, the UN has warned. Overcrowding in shelters, coupled with “increased stress levels” among refugees due to a lack of food, water and privacy, has “created increased gender based violence (GBV) … Read more

Why the obesity crisis threatens the world’s financial stability

Why the obesity crisis threatens the world’s financial stability

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The economic impact of obesity and excess weight is fast approaching £98 billion, nearly four per cent of GDP. It is surging to become a significant threat to financial stability across the world. But medical advancements are changing our understanding of what drives … Read more

Worldwide fungal deaths twice as high as previously thought, research shows

Worldwide fungal deaths twice as high as previously thought, research shows

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Around four million people are dying every year from fungal infections, new research indicates – nearly double the previous global estimate. The study, published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, says that more than 6.55 million people annually are affected by invasive fungal … Read more

Warmer weather linked to spread of diarrhoeal illness

Warmer weather linked to spread of diarrhoeal illness

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Warmer weather is linked to an increase in diarrheal illnesses in England and Wales, new research shows. Campylobacter, a bacteria responsible for the disease, appears to spread more rapidly in higher temperatures, according to a study from the University of Surrey, which analysed … Read more

Why the women’s health gap is costing the global economy £790bn

Why the women’s health gap is costing the global economy £790bn

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The new report, published in Davos on Wednesday by the World Economic Forum, Ferring Pharmaceuticals and the McKinsey Health Institute (MHI), found women were on average in debilitating health for 25 per cent longer than men. It estimated that closing the health gap … Read more

Adult smoking declines globally – but child vaping stokes concern

Adult smoking declines globally – but child vaping stokes concern

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The global proportion of adults who smoke has fallen sharply in the past 25 years, but tobacco firms are pushing hard to reverse progress and attract the young, according to the World Health Organization. A new report from the United Nations health body … Read more

Leprosy creeps back in Myanmar as health system falters

Leprosy creeps back in Myanmar as health system falters

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE In recent years Covid, a coup and conflict have deepened poverty and wrought havoc on the southeast Asian country’s healthcare system. This “perfect storm” has given leprosy – an ancient bacterial disease which causes debilitating disabilities including claw hand, blindness and paralysis if … Read more

Covid-19 vaccines saved 1.4 million lives across Europe, study finds

Covid-19 vaccines saved 1.4 million lives across Europe, study finds

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Covid-19 vaccinations saved more than 1.4 million lives across Europe, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). A new study analysing the impact of Covid-19 vaccines in 34 countries across Europe, found that they reduced deaths by 57 per cent between December 2020, … Read more

Inside California’s secret sterilisation programme – and its antivax legacy

Inside California’s secret sterilisation programme – and its antivax legacy

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Until 1979, California was the epicentre of the eugenics movement and was responsible for a third of all sterilisations that took place in America in the 20th century.  Yet its legacy cast a long and dark shadow. In the mid-2000s, Crystal Nguyen was … Read more

Cape Verde becomes third African country declared free of malaria

Cape Verde becomes third African country declared free of malaria

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Cape Verde has become the third country in Africa to be declared free of malaria. The archipelago nation, located off the western coast of Africa, was awarded the status by the World Health Organization (WHO) after no cases of local transmission were reported … Read more

Man’s best friend? New research shows that pets can carry dangerous pathogens

Man’s best friend? New research shows that pets can carry dangerous pathogens

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Pets have long been implicated in the spread of diseases to people, ranging from rabies and the plague to cat scratch fever and canine coronavirus.  The fungal infection sporothrix can meanwhile jump from cats to humans, says Prof Techangamsuwan, showing nasty photos of … Read more

‘The single worst thing I’ve seen’: Top Oxford surgeon recounts horrors of Gaza hospital

‘The single worst thing I’ve seen’: Top Oxford surgeon recounts horrors of Gaza hospital

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Professor Nick Maynard has seen many horrors during his time as a surgeon but what he witnessed in central Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital will haunt him for the rest of his life, he says. “It was the single worst thing I’ve seen in … Read more

Authoritarian nations are ‘weaponising’ the West’s weak stance on human rights abuses, report warns

Authoritarian nations are ‘weaponising’ the West’s weak stance on human rights abuses, report warns

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Authoritarian countries including Russia, China and Rwanda have been “emboldened” by the West’s weak stance on human rights abuses, a new major report has warned. Britain and its allies are “picking and choosing” which injustices to challenge and refraining from criticising certain offenders … Read more

Zika cases surge by almost 300pc in Thailand

Zika cases surge by almost 300pc in Thailand

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “For pregnant women, preventive measures against insect-transmitted diseases have been recommended, such as avoiding mosquito-prone areas, wearing long-sleeved clothing, using insect repellents following global health organisation guidelines,” said Prof Yong Poovorawan, head of the Center of Excellence in Clinical Virology at Chulalongkorn University … Read more

The ICJ will decide if Israel should be charged with genocide – here’s what we know

The ICJ will decide if Israel should be charged with genocide – here’s what we know

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE What is the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and who are the judges? The ICJ is distinct from the International Criminal Court, also in The Hague, which hears cases of war crimes against individuals. The ICJ deals with legal disputes between states, including … Read more

Medical support charity intervenes at notorious UK asylum centre

Medical support charity intervenes at notorious UK asylum centre

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The conditions at the ex-RAF base have come under scrutiny since a report by the Helen Bamber Foundation found the circumstances to be “no different from Libya,” with multiple reports of attempted suicide, including an inhabitant attempting to set themselves on fire.  In … Read more

Sexual violence in Sudan conflict becomes as commonplace as the fighting

Sexual violence in Sudan conflict becomes as commonplace as the fighting

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The United Nations has reported the widespread use of rape by the RSF, which has occupied civilian neighbourhoods in Khartoum and Omdurman as it battles Sudan’s army for control. Now women are trying to take back what little control they can themselves.  They … Read more

New drug offers promising breakthrough for endometriosis patients

New drug offers promising breakthrough for endometriosis patients

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE This spring, Andrew Horne, Professor of Gynaecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, is moving a clinical trial of DCA in endometriosis cases into its second phase – with hopes the drug could be prescribed as a treatment on the NHS … Read more

Britons spending thousands on controversial therapy to tackle antibiotic-resistant infections

Britons spending thousands on controversial therapy to tackle antibiotic-resistant infections

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Although not widely available in the UK, phage therapy is practised in parts of Eastern Europe. Every year hundreds of Britons suffering from long-term drug-resistant infections travel to these nations for treatment. Clinics in Poland, Russia, and Georgia all offer services for international … Read more

Taliban bomb kills six in Pakistan polio vaccination mission

Taliban bomb kills six in Pakistan polio vaccination mission

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Accusations are rife that the drops are harmful, tainted with pork, or even a Western plot to sterilise Muslims. Opposition intensified when it emerged the CIA ran a fake hepatitis B vaccination programme trying to pinpoint Osama bin Laden by taking DNA samples … Read more

Rising hunger in Gaza ‘turning children into skeletons’

Rising hunger in Gaza ‘turning children into skeletons’

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “We were already starting from a very low base and, of course, the war has severely compounded that situation,” said Tom White, director of the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA). “It’s important that the current crisis is seen as … Read more

The diary of a teenage sicario: ‘I murdered 30 people – I became addicted’

The diary of a teenage sicario: ‘I murdered 30 people – I became addicted’

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The young offenders are encouraged to embark upon a complicated process of self-reflection. In one exercise, they paint face masks to explore their identity, using colours to depict their past, present and future. “It’s being inside that has made me think properly about … Read more

Polar bear dies from bird flu, in first recorded case

Polar bear dies from bird flu, in first recorded case

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Last year, scientists found that the virus spreads efficiently between ferrets – the main ‘animal model’ used by researchers in experiments to analyse how respiratory infections could impact humans.  “The number of mammals reported with infections continues to grow,” Dr Geralch said. In … Read more

They searched for Argentina’s ‘disappeared’ – now they are helping to find Ukraine’s dead

They searched for Argentina’s ‘disappeared’ – now they are helping to find Ukraine’s dead

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE But with more than five million Ukrainians displaced, establishing contact with families for gathering vital DNA is difficult, as is creating one unified registry of the missing and coordinating between districts and forces. “How to create this list and centralise the missing persons, … Read more

Latin America’s health systems are falling behind the rest of the world, WHO warns

Latin America’s health systems are falling behind the rest of the world, WHO warns

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Latin America and the Caribbean is a region where social inequality is rife, with fifty per cent of its 667 million people working in the informal economy, 200 million living in poverty and a shortage of at least 600,000 health professionals. Against this … Read more

India’s new homegrown vaccine offers hope in fight against cervical cancer

India’s new homegrown vaccine offers hope in fight against cervical cancer

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Mridu Gupta, the CEO of non-profit CAPED, cautions that awareness campaigns will need to run parallel if a national vaccine roll-out is to be successful, however. “Awareness is one of our largest gaps,” says Gupta. “It’s a sexually transmitted infection. Nobody wants to … Read more

Unicef delivers half a million vaccines into Gaza to prevent spread of childhood disease

Unicef delivers half a million vaccines into Gaza to prevent spread of childhood disease

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The vaccines against contagious childhood diseases, including rubella, polio, measles and mumps, have been purchased by the Palestinian health ministry but also include donations from Unicef and its partners. The delivery of the supplies comes amid recent reports of infectious outbreaks among Israeli … Read more

At least £550 million of Covid drugs wasted in the UK

At least £550 million of Covid drugs wasted in the UK

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The eligibility criteria has been “over-restrictive,” she said, limiting the number of people who can access Paxlovid. Unlike the United States, where the drug has been much easier to obtain, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommended the antiviral was … Read more

Inside the ‘zombie’ drug epidemic sweeping West Africa

Inside the ‘zombie’ drug epidemic sweeping West Africa

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The Teaching Hospital provides isolation treatment, which lasts between three to six weeks, and antipsychotic drugs to help wean patients off their addiction. But it is the only facility of its kind offering active care to kush patients in Sierra Leone. Indeed, there … Read more

Inside London’s vaccine blackspots – the next health crisis waiting to happen

Inside London’s vaccine blackspots – the next health crisis waiting to happen

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “It makes more sense in my head when someone’s completely antivax, especially post Covid. I think that’s where a lot of this antivax stuff has come from. I hadn’t realised that there’s still a lot of anti-MMR specific feelings in the community.” There … Read more

‘My husband beat me over and over – I still can’t legally divorce him’

‘My husband beat me over and over – I still can’t legally divorce him’

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The southeast Asian country is the only place outside the Vatican which prohibits divorce, trapping thousands of people in marriages that are loveless at best, abusive and exploitative at worst.  But now, as new legislation creeps through Congress, there are mounting hopes that … Read more

How South Korea is harnessing AI to ease its ‘super-ageing’ crisis

How South Korea is harnessing AI to ease its ‘super-ageing’ crisis

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The pioneering CLOVA CareCall system was created by the Naver Corporation, one of Korea’s biggest internet conglomerates, in 2020 to help ease the burden on health workers who were struggling to meet demands on their time. It began during the pandemic as an … Read more

Health alert after parrot fever infects humans in Sweden

Health alert after parrot fever infects humans in Sweden

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Parrot fever is surging in Sweden, with 12 people infected this month alone, amid concerns that the outbreak could escalate. The flu-like disease – spread by wild birds including parakeets, of which there are many in Britain – can lead to severe pneumonia … Read more

Climate change provokes urgent action on food systems everywhere

Climate change provokes urgent action on food systems everywhere

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE As 2023 draws to a close, with the world hotter than ever and on track to exceed 1.5 degrees warming, world leaders are increasingly concerned and strive ever harder to agree on ambitious climate action.  They have focused on an increasingly pressing issue: … Read more

How a 21-year-old Cambodian became the world’s latest bird flu victim

How a 21-year-old Cambodian became the world’s latest bird flu victim

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE How a 21-year-old Cambodian became the world’s latest bird flu victim . MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE

This addictive nut is driving record rates of cancer – yet millions continue to chew it

This addictive nut is driving record rates of cancer – yet millions continue to chew it

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE In Papua New Guinea, where a majority of the adult population chews betel nuts, the rate of oral cancer per capita is the highest in the world. It is also the most common form of cancer among men and the second most common … Read more

Why genetically modified fish are being bred to fight rare childhood diseases

Why genetically modified fish are being bred to fight rare childhood diseases

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE While Qatar has taken various steps to try and address the problem, including compulsory premarital genetic screening compulsory for all residents in the country since 2012, research has suggested that more than 50 per cent of marriages in Qatar and the wider Arab … Read more

Apple vs egg: which one really keeps the doctor at bay?

Apple vs egg: which one really keeps the doctor at bay?

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The study assessed children in underdeveloped areas in mid and western China, where malnutrition and stunted growth remain acute. Comparisons were made between 252 children who ate an egg a day for two school terms or the best part of a year and … Read more

War in Gaza fuelling drug-resistant infections among Israeli troops

War in Gaza fuelling drug-resistant infections among Israeli troops

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “Given the living conditions and lack of health care, more people could die from disease than bombings,” WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote last month in a post on X, formerly Twitter. Earlier this month, there were reports of a dysentery outbreak … Read more

Africa eyes vaccine ‘independence’ as new pop-up factories make debut

Africa eyes vaccine ‘independence’ as new pop-up factories make debut

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Earlier this month, he said there was a “need for vaccine manufacturing capacity in every global region as an insurance policy against the type of vaccine nationalism that saw Africa deprived of Covid-19 vaccines in the early days of the pandemic.” He went … Read more

Scientists spooked by ‘unusual’ surge in anthrax cases across Africa

Scientists spooked by ‘unusual’ surge in anthrax cases across Africa

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE He also highlighted the importance of educating livestock workers and teaching them not to handle or eat wild animals suspected to be ill. Although infected animals die quickly from an anthrax infection, their carcasses show little sign of disease, making it easier for … Read more

West Africa grapples with a wave of diphtheria as vaccine coverage slips

West Africa grapples with a wave of diphtheria as vaccine coverage slips

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Across Africa there is a pool of some 10 million children who have never had the vaccination. Public health officials say, globally, this group of unvaccinated children has grown over the last three years because the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdowns diverted resources … Read more

The cure for snake bite may already be out there, research suggests

The cure for snake bite may already be out there, research suggests

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE A new drug combination could protect hundreds of thousands of snakebite victims from serious harm, research has found.   Venomous snake bites can lead to tissue destruction, permanent disability, limb amputation, kidney failure, and death. Currently, only a fraction of the estimated 2.7 million … Read more

Parents ‘misled and deceived’ over sugary baby food, says Unicef

Parents ‘misled and deceived’ over sugary baby food, says Unicef

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Sales of packaged foods have surged by 45 per cent across Southeast Asia in the last five years, according to Euromonitor International, raising fears the region is turning into a “food swamp” dominated by an abundance of high-calorie, low-nutrient processed foods. The latest … Read more

‘Nothing will stop us’ – Netanyahu says war against Hamas will continue despite global pressure

‘Nothing will stop us’ – Netanyahu says war against Hamas will continue despite global pressure

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Mr Netanyahu, who admits to disagreements with the US on the future of Gaza, said he would not allow the territory to become “Hamas-stan” or “Fatah-stan” on Tuesday. The Biden administration has been Israel’s biggest military backer since the war began, sending 14,000 … Read more

The British surgeon bringing hope to generations of children with birth defects

The British surgeon bringing hope to generations of children with birth defects

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Fully healed, Niza’s smile will be uninterrupted by the two gaps in her upper lip, and her speech, hearing and teeth growth can progress like other children. Most significantly, she will be able to eat normally. Her parents’ relief is compounded by the … Read more

‘Rape is cheaper than bullets’: The psychology behind sexual violence in war

‘Rape is cheaper than bullets’: The psychology behind sexual violence in war

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Recent conflicts in Africa have also seen terrible sexual violence. Up to 120,000 women and girls were reportedly raped or sexually abused during the 2020-2022 Tigray war in northern Ethiopia, and this year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, thousands of women … Read more

How Taiwan’s disease detectives are keeping tabs on China

How Taiwan’s disease detectives are keeping tabs on China

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE However, this time the data was “more reassuring” that the flu-like outbreak making headlines in China was not due to “unknown or unusual pathogens,” said Dr Lo, an epidemiologist. “We look at social media posts and we don’t see alarming reports from healthcare … Read more

Myanmar passes Afghanistan to become world’s largest producer of opium, says United Nations

Myanmar passes Afghanistan to become world’s largest producer of opium, says United Nations

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Experts have called the crackdown the “most successful counter-narcotics effort in human history”. In a report published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Tuesday, the agency estimated that the amount of land used to grow the illicit crop … Read more

Britain’s largest nursing body calls on Foreign Secretary to up UK aid spending

Britain’s largest nursing body calls on Foreign Secretary to up UK aid spending

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Britain’s largest nursing body has urged David Cameron to increase the UK’s international aid spending in order to bolster the global health workforce. In a letter sent to the Foreign Secretary, and shared with the Telegraph, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warned … Read more

WHO convoy hit by bullets while driving through Gaza, says agency chief

WHO convoy hit by bullets while driving through Gaza, says agency chief

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE On its return to the south of Gaza, having picked up patients from the Al-Ahli Hospital, the mission was again stopped at a checkpoint, with critical patients allegedly searched by armed soldiers. As a result of the delays, one of the patients died … Read more

UK falls behind Western counterparts over patient safety standards, study finds

UK falls behind Western counterparts over patient safety standards, study finds

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Improved patient safety standards could have prevented 17,000 deaths in the UK, a report has shown. The study, published by researchers at Imperial College London, highlights that the UK is lagging behind its Western counterparts in providing safe and effective care for patients.  … Read more

War in Ukraine fuels ‘alarming increase’ in hospital superbug infections, report warns

War in Ukraine fuels ‘alarming increase’ in hospital superbug infections, report warns

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The report called for the UPHC, along with support from international partners, to develop “locally led and implemented measures” to address AMR in Ukraine. “Urgent capacity building to prevent, detect, and respond to antimicrobial resistance is needed to save lives within Ukraine and … Read more

Act now to stop climate change from turbo-charging infectious disease, scientists warn

Act now to stop climate change from turbo-charging infectious disease, scientists warn

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “While some might think that climate change and epidemics are either exaggerated or transient, there is overwhelming evidence linking climate change to the surge of disease outbreaks and epidemics,” the report said. “It is no longer a question of ‘if’, but ‘when’ the … Read more

World Bank urged to review funding of hospital chain linked to ‘cash for kidneys’ racket

World Bank urged to review funding of hospital chain linked to ‘cash for kidneys’ racket

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The illegal operations are allegedly carried out at Apollo’s flagship Indraprastha Hospital, which is renowned across India for its transplantation services.   Apollo said it was “completely shocked” by the Telegraph’s revelations and would investigate. “Any suggestion of our wilful complicity or implicit sanctioning … Read more

Inside the world’s largest rabies control drive – set up by British retirees

Inside the world’s largest rabies control drive – set up by British retirees

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Across the globe, these CNVR programmes have become the gold standard to humanely control both stray populations and rabies – a horrible zoonotic disease found in 150 countries, which still kills close to 60,000 people a year, according to the US Centre for … Read more

Shimano bike parts ‘made by modern slaves’ sold to commuters

Shimano bike parts ‘made by modern slaves’ sold to commuters

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Shimano notably posted a record sales increase of 44 per cent in 2021, making £2.8 billion in turnover. The following year, the Osaka-based company recorded a further 16.6 per cent increase in sales, with the global appetite for cycling still high at the … Read more

Health hazard looms as billions of flies engulf one of Sudan’s biggest cities

Health hazard looms as billions of flies engulf one of Sudan’s biggest cities

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Authorities in Port Sudan have closed the main market and are trying to fight back by spraying pesticides from planes flying over the city.  “So far they have used aircraft spraying, which is not an effective way to control fly infestations, because most … Read more

Africa must take control of its vaccine manufacturing to protect against a new pandemic

Africa must take control of its vaccine manufacturing to protect against a new pandemic

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Much has been written about lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic. Although debate remains about the global response, on one issue there is clear consensus: the need for vaccine manufacturing capacity in every global region as an insurance policy against the type of … Read more

UK expanding mosquito surveillance to counter growing threat of dengue

UK expanding mosquito surveillance to counter growing threat of dengue

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The insect is a poor flyer so can only travel a few hundred metres. Instead, it makes its way into new territories via cars, trucks and ships which have travelled from warm climates where the species lives and breeds. Conditions in the UK … Read more

Child pneumonia cases emerge in Europe as China battles wave of respiratory illness

Child pneumonia cases emerge in Europe as China battles wave of respiratory illness

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE In China, the cluster of infections, commonly known as ‘walking pneumonia’, has filled many hospitals and has been attributed to the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions magnifying the surge in illness that normally accompanies the winter season. The illness came into the spotlight last … Read more

Hand-held sequencing device may help track resistant-malaria in African hotspots

Hand-held sequencing device may help track resistant-malaria in African hotspots

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Using just a laptop and pocket-sized genetic sequencing device, blood samples from malaria-infected patients were processed in low-cost labs in just two days, allowing researchers to monitor the evolution of the parasites in near real time. The sequencing device was trialled in two … Read more

World’s first ‘dengue dashboard’ could predict outbreaks months before they happen

World’s first ‘dengue dashboard’ could predict outbreaks months before they happen

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Globally, data on dengue transmission is patchy, partly because cases are generally mild and can be misdiagnosed. But according to the World Health Organization, some 400 million people are infected with the virus – dubbed ‘breakbone fever’ because severe joint pain can be … Read more

Climate change drives deadly malaria surge as elimination efforts reach ‘crunch point’

Climate change drives deadly malaria surge as elimination efforts reach ‘crunch point’

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The WHO’s latest malaria report found that there were 249 million malaria cases globally in 2022, having jumped from 233 million in 2019. The pandemic was instrumental in this, reversing several years of progress that had been made in tackling the disease. Significant … Read more

WHO chief urges Republicans to support HIV programme credited with saving 25 million lives

WHO chief urges Republicans to support HIV programme credited with saving 25 million lives

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The world’s most powerful HIV initiative is “in jeopardy”, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned, as he made a rare intervention in American politics to urge the US Congress to renew funding for Pepfar. Writing in the Telegraph on World Aids Day, the … Read more

HIV progress is strong because of Pepfar, but this global beacon could now be in jeopardy

HIV progress is strong because of Pepfar, but this global beacon could now be in jeopardy

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Pepfar investment continues to be catalytic, driving a revolution not just in tackling HIV but in how countries deliver health services. Pepfar has not only provided the funds to purchase life-saving tests and treatments, but also invested in the systems and infrastructure required … Read more

Scientists aim to predict weather’s impact on heart disease patients

Scientists aim to predict weather’s impact on heart disease patients

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Health effects of climate change will be high on the agenda of this week’s latest round of United Nations climate negotiations. More than 70,000 attendees and world leaders will meet at the Dubai for Cop28 summit for diplomatic horse-trading aimed at hitting carbon emissions … Read more

‘The cracks are getting bigger and there are still aftershocks – we fear our house may collapse’

‘The cracks are getting bigger and there are still aftershocks – we fear our house may collapse’

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “Many individuals [are] in need of mental health support to cope with the trauma stemming from the earthquakes,” he said. He added that assessments have identified “significant needs for shelter”, and there are concerns the inadequate housing is making children sick.  “Our medical … Read more

Anthrax confirmed as ‘mystery’ disease behind deaths in Uganda

Anthrax confirmed as ‘mystery’ disease behind deaths in Uganda

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE A mystery disease which has killed up to 17 people in Uganda has been confirmed as anthrax, health officials said. The outbreak striking Kyotera district has seen infected patients suffer rashes and swollen limbs before dying. As many as 40 are thought to … Read more

‘A drug-resistant infection left me housebound and unable to work’

‘A drug-resistant infection left me housebound and unable to work’

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Vanessa Carter, 44, is also living with the fallout from AMR. An executive director, she battled a recurrent MRSA infection following a car crash that led to multiple reconstructive surgeries on her face. A cheek prosthetic Ms Carter had implanted during one surgery … Read more

UAE to lease millions of hectares of land in Africa to generate carbon credits

UAE to lease millions of hectares of land in Africa to generate carbon credits

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Africa is home to some of the biggest ‘carbon sinks’ on the planet. Its forests absorb billions of tons of carbon dioxide each year and are thought to be crucial in the fight against global warming. Protecting such forests has long been said … Read more

Covid-19 vaccines may have prevented thousands of premature births, study suggests

Covid-19 vaccines may have prevented thousands of premature births, study suggests

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Covid-19 vaccinations may have prevented thousands of premature births, new research suggests. Mothers infected with the Covid virus were significantly more at risk of delivering early in the beginning stages of the pandemic, prior to the rollout of vaccines, according to the study, … Read more

Asian neighbours ‘put guard up’ amid fears China’s wave of disease will spread

Asian neighbours ‘put guard up’ amid fears China’s wave of disease will spread

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Meanwhile, paediatric wards in southern Vietnam are full of patients with a mix of seasonal infections, including RSV, influenza and hand, foot and mouth disease, prompting hospitals to expand their bed capacity and bring in extra staff.  At Can Tho Children’s Hospital, an … Read more

‘I performed six amputations in one night’: London doctor recalls war horrors after 43 days in Gaza

‘I performed six amputations in one night’: London doctor recalls war horrors after 43 days in Gaza

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Prof Abu-Sittah described how many of the people on his operation table were victims of fragmentary missiles fired by the Israelis and required guillotine amputations in “very tough” parts of their bodies – such as the mid thigh, where medics had to saw … Read more

Fears grow over mystery illness that has killed at least 14 people in Uganda

Fears grow over mystery illness that has killed at least 14 people in Uganda

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE African health experts are urgently investigating a mystery disease outbreak in Uganda which has killed at least 14 people and seen some 40 fall ill. The mystery disease is being probed by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and … Read more

Dispatch: The invisible killer haunting Laos 50 years after the Vietnam War

Dispatch: The invisible killer haunting Laos 50 years after the Vietnam War

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Clearing this land is a slow, repetitive process which got off to a slow start. Nationwide, bomb clearance organisations eventually launched operations from 1994; North Vietnam’s communist allies Pathet Lao took control after the war, and for two decades the nation was largely … Read more

Mpox kills 600 in largest ever DRC outbreak

Mpox kills 600 in largest ever DRC outbreak

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Nearly 600 have died of suspected mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year, with a further 11,988 infected, in what has become the nation’s largest-ever outbreak.  The death toll surpasses the 112 global fatalities recorded during last summer’s outbreak, when the … Read more

AI tool outperforms experts in spotting breast cancer, says new study

AI tool outperforms experts in spotting breast cancer, says new study

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Artificial Intelligence is significantly better at spotting breast cancer than humans, a new study has found. The research, published in Nature, found that an AI device which utilised sophisticated image recognition technology to scan mammograms detected up to 13 per cent more breast … Read more

China gave ‘tacit blessing’ to armed resistance movement sweeping Myanmar

China gave ‘tacit blessing’ to armed resistance movement sweeping Myanmar

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “Beijing was really not happy with the coup. It damaged Chinese interests. It made China’s strategic objectives in Myanmar more difficult to achieve,” he said. The scam centres “added another layer” to frayed relations, he continued. The Chinese media has suggested that an … Read more

WHO asks China for more data on spread of ‘mystery’ child pneumonia

WHO asks China for more data on spread of ‘mystery’ child pneumonia

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “WHO requested additional epidemiologic and clinical information, as well as laboratory results from these reported clusters among children, through the International Health Regulations mechanism,” the UN agency said.  “We have also requested further information about recent trends in the circulation of known pathogens … Read more

Science our best bet to fight and beat food insecurity

Science our best bet to fight and beat food insecurity

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE In July this year, India halted the export of basmati rice to prevent domestic shortages, triggering global spikes in prices. Argentina’s worst drought in 60 years cost the agricultural sector $20 billion. And the war between Ukraine and Russia has led to major … Read more

Mystery child pneumonia outbreak reported in China hospitals

Mystery child pneumonia outbreak reported in China hospitals

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE In an editor’s note, ProMed said: “This report suggests a widespread outbreak of an undiagnosed respiratory illness … It is not at all clear when this outbreak started as it would be unusual for so many children to be affected so quickly. The … Read more

Can David Cameron make Britain a development superpower again? Only time will tell

Can David Cameron make Britain a development superpower again? Only time will tell

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The return of Cameron to office is being seen as a win for the sector. He brings with him international clout and a wealth of experience from his time in No 10, which, it’s hoped, will be leveraged to better support the world’s … Read more

‘Super mosquito’ driving malaria surge in Africa, study confirms

‘Super mosquito’ driving malaria surge in Africa, study confirms

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE They also analysed which malaria parasites the insects were carrying, and found they were the same as the strains causing disease in people. “We found a strong geographical and clinical interlink between An. stephensi and the [malaria parasite],” Dr Sedda, a co-author of … Read more

Gaza races to disinfect refugee shelters as disease starts to spread

Gaza races to disinfect refugee shelters as disease starts to spread

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Ahmad Najjar, Anera’s Medical Donations Programme Officer in Gaza, told the Telegraph that dermatological diseases resulting from overcrowding are spreading like wildfire.  “It is related directly to the absence of hygienic tools, mainly water and the very limited numbers of bathrooms,” he told … Read more

Singapore launches fish farm in a shipping container to bolster food security

Singapore launches fish farm in a shipping container to bolster food security

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE From the outside, there’s little to suggest the nondescript grey shipping container could help transform Singapore’s food security. Yet the city-state has high hopes for the project lurking within the 20-foot-vessel. Deposited on a gravel plot in eastern Singapore, this is the country’s … Read more

Zimbabwe declares state of emergency amid cholera epidemic

Zimbabwe declares state of emergency amid cholera epidemic

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Zimbabwe has declared a state of emergency in the capital Harare following a cholera outbreak.  Over 7,000 cases have been recorded so far, killing dozens of people.  Officials have said that the events bear the hallmarks of a deadly outbreak in 2008 that … Read more

Measles cases boom around the world, new data reveal

Measles cases boom around the world, new data reveal

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE There was a “staggering” increase in measles cases and deaths in 2022 amid rising vaccine hesitancy and pandemic related disruption, according to a new report.  Estimated deaths globally jumped by 43 per cent in 2022 to 136,000, mostly among children, a report from … Read more

Global food security is in crisis – here’s how to fix it

Global food security is in crisis – here’s how to fix it

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE To advance those priorities, President Lula has announced the creation of a special task force under the G20, whose mission will be to forge a new Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty. The Alliance will be a mechanism to raise financial resources and … Read more

Horrors of forgotten Sudan war ‘verging on pure evil’

Horrors of forgotten Sudan war ‘verging on pure evil’

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE More than 10,400 people have been killed so far, according to one conservative estimate by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data project. With hospitals largely not working and many dead being buried uncounted at home, the true toll is thought to be … Read more

Telegraph photographer named Photo Journalist of the Year

Telegraph photographer named Photo Journalist of the Year

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Telegraph photographer Simon Townsley has been named Photo Journalist of the Year at the Society of Editors’ Media Freedom Awards (MFA). Judges described Townsley – who works for the Global Health Security desk – as “a photographer that takes us to the edge … Read more

Loneliness a ‘pressing’ global health threat that takes years off people’s lives, warns WHO

Loneliness a ‘pressing’ global health threat that takes years off people’s lives, warns WHO

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The WHO’s commission is made up of 11 experts and policy-makers, including Ayuko Kato, the minister in charge of measures for loneliness and isolation in Japan, and Hina Jillani, Senior Pakistani Advocate and Human Rights Defender.  It will attempt to shape global policy … Read more

Russia’s ‘weaponisation’ of Ukrainian grain ‘highly likely’ a war crime

Russia’s ‘weaponisation’ of Ukrainian grain ‘highly likely’ a war crime

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “We saw a systematic approach to the way that food was being weaponised within the conflict,” said Catriona Murdoch, the lead of the GRC’s Starvation Mobile Justice Team. “We’ve not seen anything as sophisticated as this in terms of the ability to transfer … Read more

‘Tragic milestone’ hit as 1,000 attacks against doctors and hospitals recorded in Myanmar

‘Tragic milestone’ hit as 1,000 attacks against doctors and hospitals recorded in Myanmar

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The Insecurity Insight report added that Sagaing – a region in northwest Myanmar which has seen some of the fiercest clashes, and where few international humanitarian operators can access – has been hardest hit, with at least 215 incidents reported.  A doctor operating … Read more

‘My brother played football all over the world – his suicide was a complete shock’

‘My brother played football all over the world – his suicide was a complete shock’

MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Uruguay does not offer a good quality of life after retirement, says Dr Monza, and society no longer values its elders. “The social integration of older people – once they have finished their working life – is affected by the social ‘devaluation’ of … Read more