Category: Health

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 […]

When we think about the side effects of medicines, we might think of nausea, fatigue or dizziness. But there’s another, lesser-known risk that can have lasting – and sometimes permanent – consequences: hearing loss. A wide range of prescription and over-the-counter drugs are known to be ototoxic, meaning they can damage the inner ear and […]

Now fully operational, Isambard-AI based at the University of Bristol will give UK researchers access to world-class computing power, which is the lifeblood of artificial intelligence (AI). This will provide the processing power needed to train AI models and process complex calculations at lightning speed. Speeding up scientific advances Helen Godwin, the new Mayor of […]