Category: Health

UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) investment in Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK) will continue its ground-breaking UK-wide data-linking and research projects. Transformational impact Since launching in 2018, its work has had transformational impact on a wide range of public health, justice, economic and social care issues. Pay rises for UK workers It helped secure […]

Thursday, 25 July 2025 | Department of Children, Disability and Equality The Minister for Children, Disability and Equality, Norma Foley TD, has announced a commitment of €1.5 million annually to support 73 community and voluntary organisations providing counselling and therapeutic services to children and families across Ireland. This funding will enable local organisations to offer […]

24 July 2025, Cairo, Egypt – On 17 July 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean launched the Regional Coalition for Mental Health and Substance Use Prevention. A webinar held for the launch brought together civil society organizations (CSOs) working on mental health and substance use from across the Region. […]

More and more research suggests that the copper in your diet could play a bigger role in brain health than we once believed. A recent study found that older Americans who ate more copper-rich foods did better on memory and concentration tests. The findings, published in Nature Scientific Reports, looked at people’s diets using detailed […]

The report, to be released later this month, reveals how between 2020 and 2024, the world experienced a dramatic increase in food prices driven by a combination of COVID-19 inflation, the war in Ukraine restricting movements on food and commodities and increasing climate shocks.   “The episodes described in this publication bring up what we […]

Mathare, one of the country’s largest slums, houses upwards of 500,000 people in five square kilometres, cramming them together and storing the human waste they produce in uncovered rivulets. But, when he recounted the visit later to UN News, this was not the image that stuck with him the most.   Without formal sewage systems, […]

Collecting the outcomes of the research we fund is essential to UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) role as an investor of public money, enabling us to maximise the benefit to lives and livelihoods from the work we do. We are now conducting a review of award holder reporting questions to minimise undue researcher burden, which […]

As plans for missions to Mars accelerate, so do questions about how the human body might cope. A return trip to the red planet would give more than enough time for someone to become pregnant and even give birth. But could a pregnancy be conceived and carried safely in space? And what would happen to […]

Five research partnerships will study ways to: clean up contaminated mine water develop new geological tools for extracting rare earth minerals, vital for magnets identify mineral-rich volcanic deposits drive sustainable mining practices by co-extracting critical minerals with gold and copper make critical mineral supply chains recyclable and more secure Why this matters This matters because: […]

Jerusalem, Cairo, Geneva, 22 July 2025 – WHO condemns in the strongest terms the attacks on a building housing WHO staff in Deir al Balah, in the middle area of Gaza, the mistreatment of those sheltering there, and the destruction of its main warehouse. Following intensified hostilities in Deir al Balah after the latest evacuation […]