As the prisoners age, their physical and mental health needs are increasingly challenging, the leader of a visiting delegation said.
Tag: Medicine and Health
African Countries Made Huge Gains in Life Expectancy. Now That Could Be Erased.
Incidence of illnesses such as diabetes and hypertension is climbing quickly in most sub-Saharan countries, but the conditions are rarely diagnosed or treated.
Outraged Over Illnesses Among Schoolgirls, Iranians Return to Streets
With thousands of girls falling ill and claims of poisonings, Iranians held the first wide-scale protests in months.
A Risky Trade in Ukraine Grows Riskier Amid the War
Russia’s invasion has disrupted the social services that help reduce harm to the women and men who sell sex, threatening public health.
More than 200 Russian doctors petition Putin to give medical care to Navalny.
The letter, signed by doctors with their full names, was a rare example of public criticism of the Kremlin in post-invasion Russia.
China Doubles Down on ‘Covid Zero’ Despite Economic Toll
Xi Jinping doubled down on the idea that the measures have saved lives and vowed to continue the stringent set of policies.
Nobel Prize Awarded to Scientist Who Sequenced Neanderthal Genome
Svante Pääbo, a Swedish geneticist, was honored for work that created a new field of ancient DNA studies and identified populations at higher risk of disease.
New Infectious Threats Are Coming. The US Probably Won’t Contain Them.
The coronavirus revealed flaws in the nation’s pandemic plans. The spread of monkeypox shows that the problems remain deeply entrenched.
This Is Not the Monkeypox That Doctors Thought They Knew
The patients turning up at clinics often have a range of symptoms that are not typical of the infection. Some of the infected seem to have no symptoms at all.
Why Experts Want to Rename Monkeypox
Public health researchers say the term evokes racist stereotypes, reinforces offensive tropes about Africa and abets stigmatization that can prevent people from seeking care.