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Melinda French Gates launches $100 million push for women’s health research

By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -Philanthropist Melinda French Gates will invest $50 million in a women’s health fund that aims to close a vast gender gap in medical research, she said on Wednesday. French Gates, whose Pivotal group joins the non-profit Wellcome Leap in the partnership ...
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Health Rounds: Nasal spray for allergies may help prevent COVID, common cold infections

(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.) By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) -An over-the-counter nasal spray antihistamine reduced rates of COVID-19 infections and common colds in a midstage trial, German researchers reported in JAMA ...
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AI-guided cameras make solo surgery possible in step towards surgical automation

SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Ricardo Funke, the chief of surgery at Clinica Las Condes in Santiago, Chile, had a new assistant during a laparoscopic surgery on Monday – an autonomous artificial intelligence-guided camera that allowed him to carry out a gallbladder removal alone. The procedure combined magnetic surgical ...
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Congo’s Ebola-hit towns under confinement as cases tick up

KINSHASA (Reuters) -Towns affected by Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak have erected checkpoints to restrict population movements, officials said this week, as cases increased slightly and aid workers warned that the response was underfunded. Democratic Republic of Congo’s health ministry last week declared the country’s first ...
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Factbox-How significant is Hong Kong’s veto of its same-sex partnership bill?

By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong’s Legislative Council on Wednesday vetoed a bill that would have allowed limited legal rights for same-sex couples who had registered their marriage or relationship overseas, drawing disappointment from LGBTQ groups and activists. The bill had proposed a registration ...
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CDC finds 4% drop in US death rate in 2024. Experts say decline may be due to COVID

(NEW YORK) -- The United States death rate decreased by 3.8% in 2024 as COVID fell out of the top 10 leading causes of death for the first time in four years, new provisional federal data shows.The overall rate declined from 750.5 per 100,000 ...
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Hong Kong lawmakers veto bill on same-sex partnerships

By Jessie Pang and Joyce Zhou HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s Legislative Council on Wednesday vetoed a bill that would have allowed limited legal rights for same-sex couples who had registered their marriage or relationship overseas, drawing criticism from gay ...
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Global health group to prioritize poorest amid aid cuts

By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -One of the world’s largest global health initiatives will shift more of its resources to the very poorest countries to help them manage cuts in foreign aid, its chief executive said, warning of widening health inequalities worldwide. The Global Fund to ...
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Missing limbs and loved ones, Gazan children begin treatment journey abroad

By Jana Choukeir BEIRUT (Reuters) -Six-year-old Omar Abu Kuwaik still believes that by his next birthday, his missing hand will have grown back. He is one of thousands of Palestinian children who have lost limbs and loved ones in Israel’s bombing campaign of the Gaza Strip. “It’ll ...
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Australia approves first vaccine to save koalas from chlamydia

SYDNEY (Reuters) -A vaccine to protect Australia’s koalas against chlamydia has been approved for the first time, a move that scientists believe could stop the spread of the deadly disease that has ravaged populations of the beloved endangered marsupial. The single-dose vaccine is now ready ...
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Wegovy-maker Novo Nordisk to slash 9,000 jobs as competition heats up

By Louise Rasmussen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Novo Nordisk, the maker of blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, will cut 9,000 jobs or 11.5% of its workforce in a restructuring to save some $1.3 billion annually, as it battles rising pressure from U.S. ...
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Musk’s Neuralink says 12 people have received its implants

(Reuters) -Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink said on Tuesday that 12 people worldwide have received its chips. This marks an increase from a prior announcement in June, when its partner Barrow Neurological Institute said that seven individuals with severe paralysis had received Neuralink’s implants ...
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