The rate of medical assistance in dying – also known as euthanasia – has grown in Canada for the fifth straight year, albeit at a slower pace. The country released…
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Brazil: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in intensive care after brain bleed surgery
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is doing “well” after undergoing surgery for a brain bleed, his doctors say. The 79-year-old was taken to hospital in the capital, Brasília,…
South Sudan: Cholera outbreak ‘rapidly escalating’
An outbreak of cholera in South Sudan is “rapidly escalating”, a humanitarian group has warned, more than a month after the first suspected case was detected. Doctors Without Borders, known by its…
USA: Supreme Court reluctant to overturn Tennessee transgender law
A majority of US Supreme Court justices appear reluctant to lift Tennessee’s ban on hormone therapy and puberty blockers for children under 18. The high court heard arguments about the…
USA: Authorities order bird flu testing of national dairy supply
The US national milk supply will begin being tested for bird flu, according to a new federal order announced on Friday by the Department of Agriculture. As part of the…
Cambodia: Authorities jail 13 pregnant Filipino surrogates
Thirteen women from the Philippines have been convicted of human trafficking in Cambodia for intending to sell babies they carried through surrogacy. They were sentenced to four years in prison,…
Mexico: IV bag contamination suspected to have killed 13 children
Contaminated feeding bags may have caused the deaths of 13 children in central Mexico in the latest blow to the country’s ailing healthcare system, according to health officials. The Department…
UK: £38m of support for domestic abuse victims
Nearly £40 million will be spent supporting domestic abuse victims in Hampshire over the next seven years by Hampshire County Council. The authority will also spend up to £1.5 million…
Canada: Man jumps on polar bear to defend wife from attack
A man in Canada’s far north leapt onto a polar bear to protect his wife from being mauled, police say. The unnamed man suffered serious injuries but is expected to…
India: Pharmaceutical industry positing for global influence
Antibiotics are hailed as medical saviours.But they are increasingly facing a crafty adversary: bacteria that mutate and adapt and outwit the very drugs designed to defeat them and cure the…