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Questions raised about sudden death in Birmingham after Canada links India to murder in British ColumbiaThe family of Avtar Singh Khanda, the 35-year-old Sikh activist who died in a Birmingham hospital after a short illness this summer, is seeking a fo…
Read MoreWHO says China facing ‘sustained community transmission’ of virus first detected as imported case last yearChina is fuelling a global surge in mpox cases, accounting for the majority of new cases reported in September, according to the World Health Or…
Read MoreRare but serious bat-borne virus that can cause fever, vomiting and respiratory infections in humans has killed two in KeralaIndian authorities have instituted mass testing to halt the spread of the deadly Nipah virus, which has killed two people in th…
Read MoreLarge-scale field trials that provided healthy food packages to sufferers and their families showed radical reductions in fatalities Infectious, deadly and long associated with poverty, tuberculosis causes weight loss, while poor diets increase the lik…
Read MoreAs jobs screening US, UK and EU platforms are shifted to India, viewing ‘gore’ to clean up the web has traumatised moderators‘I had to watch every frame of a recent stabbing video … It will never leave me,” says Harun*, one of many moderators reviewing…
Read MoreMental health apps focusing on personal history part of a wider push to support men and address high rates of family harmJoshua Wilson* was abandoned at birth and then adopted into a family where he was sexually abused by his father and violently torme…
Read MoreCampaigners say efforts to stamp out custom of banishing girls and women during menstruation have been set back by CovidA 16-year-old girl from Nepal has died as a result of the illegal practice of chhaupadi, where menstruating women are forced to stay…
Read MoreThe pandemic, cost-of-living crisis and the climate emergency are influencing responses to the largest-ever survey of young peopleGetting a good education and a job are the top priorities for 10 to 24-year-olds, according to the preliminary results of …
Read MoreThousands more women will be forced into unsafe abortions and die in pregnancy and childbirth, ministers toldHundreds of thousands more women will face unsafe abortions and thousands will die in pregnancy and childbirth as a result of UK aid cuts in 20…
Read MoreShortage of children’s doctors has led to long waiting lists, clinic closures and even prompted prospective parents to think againA shortage of paediatricians in South Korea is leaving hospitals unable to fill posts while raising risks for children’s h…
Read MoreVeena Torchia always felt like an outsider in London, but found peace when she and her husband moved to RajasthanEarlier this year, Veena Torchia was sitting in her garden in Pushkar in northern India, eating a very ripe mango. As she bit into it, she …
Read MoreA scheme training visually impaired women to use their heightened tactile abilities benefits patients and examinersThe most satisfying part of Ritika Maurya’s work is reassuring the anxious. “Women fear coming for breast examinations,” says Maurya. “Wh…
Read MoreXu Zaozao’s case is widely followed in a country where women’s rights have become increasingly prominentA single Chinese woman has begun an appeal in her legal battle for the right to freeze her eggs, a procedure only available in China to married coup…
Read MoreDespite the pain of the condition, diagnoses take seven years on average globally. In India, where 42 million women have the disease, cultural stigmas can make the delay even longer‘Hell-on-earth excruciating pain,” is how Ruhi Singh* describes her exp…
Read MoreA group of Bangladesh’s health workers are working to reach women in some of the country’s most isolated places, to fight back against stigma of cervical cancer The health workers arrive on a wooden cart, hijabs blowing in the wind, as they are pulled …
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