A representational image of a tick carrying Congo virus. — APP/File Patient passed away a day after testing positive for CCHF. 42-year-old patient was resident of Karachi’s Malir. Two CCHF patients in Karak are stable: KP health dept. Sindh has recorded this year’s first case of the Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) in Karachi. A…
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Various B12 gummy vitamin products have been recalled due to an undeclared peanut allergen. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published an announcement on Friday from Vita Warehouse Corp., the maker of the product that is distributed under the brand names Welby, Berkley Jensen and VitaGlobe….
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23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing in Washington, D.C., on June 10, 2025. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images Anne Wojcicki, the co-founder and former CEO of 23andMe, has regained control over the embattled genetic testing company after her new nonprofit, TTAM Research Institute, outbid Regeneron Pharmaceuticals,…
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CDC reports high levels of flu activity in 25 states – CBS News Watch CBS News The CDC reports that Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, New York City and 25 states now have “high” flu activity. Flu cases have jumped by more than a million in just one week to an estimated 4 and half million…
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Four days later, he woke up from a coma. “I know what it feels like to die from snakebite,” Friede told AFP via video call from his home in the small town of Two Rivers, Wisconsin in the United States. This experience might put most people off snakes entirely, but Friede simply vowed to be…
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Checking your blood pressure (BP) may seem like a straightforward task—wrap the cuff around your arm, press a button, and wait for the numbers to appear. But in reality, accurate blood pressure measurement is a delicate process. Even small mistakes can lead to misleading results, prompting unnecessary worry or, worse, causing a serious condition to…
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Listen to article The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued an alert urging women using weight-loss medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro to use effective contraception after receiving multiple reports of pregnancies among users, The Guardian reported on June 5, 2025. The alert follows 40 reports of pregnancy in women taking these…
Elen Hughes Elen Hughes says if she was investigated while grieving, it “might well have been the end of me” Women’s bodies are still controlled by “Victorian era” laws, a mum has said, after police issued new guidelines which allow officers to search grieving women for abortion drugs. Elen Hughes, from the Llŷn Peninsula in…
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A health worker administers polio drops to a child during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in Karachi on August 7, 2023. — AFP ISLAMABAD: The Gilgit-Baltistan region on Monday reported its first case of polio in 2025, marking a concerning emergence of the crippling disease in an area previously thought to be polio-free. Officials confirmed today…
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Blood and urine tests have been found to detect the amount of ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) a person eats, according to new research. Using machine learning, scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) identified hundreds of metabolites (molecules produced during metabolism) that correlated with processed food intake. The team developed a “biomarker score” that predicts…
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