The executive order the president signed Wednesday follows a broader vision of American foreign policy that shuns coalition building and the consensus of nations.

MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United

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In the GBD 2023 study, estimates of mortality in sub-Saharan Africa for children aged 5–14 and females aged 15–29 were higher compared to earlier estimates. Find out why.

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

Latest attack comes as Israel’s military urges people to leave Gaza City with 60,000 more reservists to be called up At least nine people, including five children, have been killed in an Israeli strike while fetching water in al-Mawasi, an area of southern Gaza which Israel has designated as a safe zone, health officials said. A doctor from al-Nasser hospital shared a picture of the children’s bodies in the hospital, as well as a picture of water jugs left in a pool of blood at the site of the attack on Tuesday. Continue reading...

Exactly seven months into Trump's second term, we have reached 1000 authoritarian actions. Here I lay out the enormity of what has happened.

MSF says low vaccination coverage and poor living conditions driving spread of deadly bacterial disease

Giving up on mRNA is a dangerous decision.

Norway's $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, said on Tuesday it expects to divest from more Israeli companies as part of its ongoing review of investments in the country over the situation in Gaza and the West Bank.

The avian flu virus is now just one mutation away from easier transmission among humans. Trump’s health chief is a grave risk to world health, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at ...

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International non-profit Civicus says ‘sustained attacks on civic freedoms’ put US on par with El Salvador and Kenya

Examines the blockbuster returns from US government investment in global health R&D, including the lifesaving tools advanced and the economic and health benefits generated globally and domestically.

Five-year £1.25bn pledge to Gavi is 40% cut in real terms, which experts say will cost lives in developing countries The UK has cut its funding to a leading global vaccination group by a quarter, a move that experts say will directly lead to the avoidable deaths of many thousands of children in developing countries. The Foreign Office billed the £1.25bn commitment over five years to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi) as a major boost to the group’s work as well as to the UK’s status as a developer of vaccines. A series of aid agencies praised the decision. Continue reading...

Moazzam Malik rejects move marks shift from ‘charity’ to ‘partnership’, and decries ‘travesty’ of child poverty in UK Labour’s deep cuts to the UK’s aid budget will touch the lives of 60 million people, and underline the Britain’s withdrawal from the world stage, the director of Save the Children UK has warned. Moazzam Malik, a former diplomat and civil servant, has spent the first six months in his post learning more about the plight of children in the UK and abroad. Continue reading...

Most dads in the UK get two weeks off work after their baby is born, but dads in many European countries get more.

The chancellor's focus on the NHS and defence will mean a spending squeeze elsewhere, writes the BBC's political editor.

Before the 1970s, most children affected by leukemia would quickly die from it. Now, most children in rich countries are cured.

Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) published its first-ever position paper on immunization products to protect infants against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) – the leading cause of acute lo...

Safe, effective vaccines against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) are urgently needed in children younger than 12 years of age. A phase 1, dose-finding study and an ongoing phase 2–3 randomized ...

The systematic analysis of the global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR) 1990–2021 by the GBD 2021 Antimicrobial Resistance Collaborators1 will help to improve understanding of global ...