March 19, 2025
Health & Fitness
March 19, 2025
‘Cannot fill US global health funding gaps&#…
A collage showing US President Donald Trump (left) and Microsoft co-founder and tech billionaire Bill Gates. — Reuters/File LONDON: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is personally lobbying Trump administration officials to keep funding health programmes
March 19, 2025
Benefits crackdown unveiled with aim to save £5bn …
Becky Morton Political reporter House of Commons The government has unveiled sweeping changes to the benefits system, aimed at saving £5bn a year by 2030. Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall said the overhaul
March 18, 2025
Flurry of worry over benefit changes
Arguments about benefits always revolve around a single concept: fairness. There are timeless questions – who is deserving and who is not? It provokes sharp opinions and so is among the sharpest of domestic
March 18, 2025
RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let …
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, has an unorthodox idea for tackling the bird flu bedeviling U.S. poultry farms. Let the virus rip. Instead of culling birds when the infection is
March 18, 2025
‘Reasonable precautions’ could have st…
Jonathan Geddes BBC Scotland News Getty Images The three deaths occurred between 2019 and 2021 “Reasonable precautions” could have prevented the deaths of three newborn babies, a fatal accident inquiry has found. Leo Lamont,
March 18, 2025
Key changes to benefits in welfare shake-up
Brian Wheeler Political reporter Pa Media The government has announced plans for major changes to the benefits system aimed at cutting the growing amount the UK spends on welfare. Stricter tests for Personal Independence
March 18, 2025
What are PIP disability payments and why could the…
Getty Images Changes to a key disability benefit called Personal Independence Payment (PIP) are being considered by the government as it tries to cut welfare spending. PIP is paid to people who have difficulty
March 18, 2025
Trump Cuts Imperil Cancer, Diabetes and Pediatric …
Cancer researchers examining the use of artificial intelligence to detect early signs of breast cancer. Pediatricians tracking the long-term health of children born to mothers infected with the coronavirus during pregnancy. Scientists searching for
March 18, 2025