Health
- Global development, Global health, Health, India, Infant and child mortality, Kashmir, Maternal health, Maternal mortality, Mongolia, Pastoralism, Society, South and Central Asia, United Nations, Women, World Health Organization, World news
Born in the forest: the women giving birth alone in the Kashmiri mountains
Far from hospitals, nomadic Gujjar women routinely go into labour – and die – on their herder communities’ lon…
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Surgeons remove up to 100 magnets from New Zealand teenager’s intestines
Boy, 13, swallowed the high-power magnets after apparently buying them from the online retailer TemuA 13-year-…
- Asia Pacific, Digital media, Health, Health & wellbeing, Internet, Japan, Mental health, Smartphones, Social media, Technology, Young people
‘It made my day more meaningful’: the Japanese gen Zers attempting a two-hour limit on smartphone use
Authorities in Japan are taking action against excessive phone time – but what is it like to restrict scrollin…
- Cholera, Extreme weather, Flooding, Global development, Health, Pakistan, South and Central Asia, World news
Crowded camps, stagnant water and not enough doctors: first the floods, now disease stalks millions in Pakistan
As the waters recede, a surge in cases of cholera, diarrhoea, malaria and dengue has compounded the misery of …
- Cervical cancer, Global development, Global health, Health, HPV vaccine, Pakistan, Society, South and Central Asia, Vaccines and immunisation, Women's health, World news
‘One jab will do the job’: Pakistan begins rollout of HPV vaccine to millions of girls
Despite vaccination hesitancy, the end may be in sight for cervical cancer, which kills 64% of women with the …
- Ageing, Asia Pacific, China, Europe, Health, Medical research, Russia, Science, Society, Vladimir Putin, World news, Xi Jinping
Healthy living, science and an army of doctors: Putin’s pursuit of longevity
Russian leader was caught musing about immortality with Xi Jinping but his fascination with long life is nothi…
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Thursday briefing: How the colonial legacy has created a toxic beauty industry
In today’s newsletter: Doctors are sounding the alarm over a surge in cancers and irreversible skin damage lin…
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Alarm in China that efforts to control Chikungunya virus are infringing on rights
Many say control measure for mosquito-borne disease hark back to the zero-Covid era, in which people’s daily l…
- Air pollution, Delhi, Environment, Farming, Health, India, Pollution, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
How farm fires intensify Delhi’s post-monsoon smog problem
Extreme air pollution from farming fires meets high population density, causing substantial harm to healthThe …
- Americas, Cambodia, Colombia, Drugs, Ecuador, Endangered species, Health, Indigenous peoples, Mental health, Plants, South America holidays, Travel, World news
Amazon Indigenous peoples can benefit from ‘ayahuasca tourism’ | Letters
Visitors staying at ‘healing retreats’ bring vital income to the diverse cultures of the region, writes Enrico…
- Health, Mental health, NHS, Psychiatry, Race, Society, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, World news
Suman Fernando obituary
My friend and colleague Suman Fernando, who has died aged 92, had an international reputation in the field of …
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‘Start exercising!’: secrets of Thailand’s 105-year-old athletics champion
A recent winner of four Masters Games gold medals, Sawang Janpram began competing at 97 – motivated by his dau…
- British empire, Children, Colonialism, Food, Health, India, Kylian Mbappé, Pensions, Second world war, Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, UK news, Women
Britain’s bonfire of the atrocities | Brief letters
Destroyed documents | Football shirt dilemma | Wednesday misery | Awkward advert placementAngela Blazy-O’Reill…
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Toxic tofu? How plastic waste from the west fuels food factories in Indonesia
Tofu factory owners in Indonesia’s East Java feed their boilers with tonnes of foreign plastics each week to p…
- Cold war, Communism, Education, Environment, Europe, Geology, Health, Kazakhstan, Nuclear waste, Nuclear weapons, Russia, Science, Soil, South and Central Asia, Ukraine, Waste, World news
Atomic Secrets: a Chornobyl scientist warns of a toxic future
Dmitry Kalmykov is a Ukrainian scientist who has dedicated his life to investigating environmental disasters, …