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January 24, 2026 11:20 AM

Childhood vaccines do not increase epilepsy risk: study

Routine childhood vaccinations are not associated with an increased risk of epilepsy in young children, according to a new study led by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The study, published in The Journal of Pediatrics, also ...

January 23, 2026 3:56 PM

US withdraws from the World Health Organization

The United States officially left the World Health Organization on Thursday after a year of warnings that doing so would hurt public health in the U.S. and globally, saying its decision reflected failures in the U.N. health agency's management of the...

January 22, 2026 10:47 PM

How obesity leads to uncontrolled inflammation discovered

Researchers say they have finally discovered the pathway by which obesity causes runaway inflammation that can lead to a host of health issues such as diabetes and liver disease. “It’s been known for a long time that obesity causes uncontrolled ...

January 22, 2026 3:39 PM

US set to quit World Health Organization

The U.S. is due to officially exit the World Health Organization on Thursday, in the face of warnings it will hit both U.S. health and global health and also in violation of a U.S. law that requires Washington to pay theU.N. health agency $260 millio...

January 21, 2026 11:17 PM

Gates and OpenAI team up for AI health push in African countries

The Gates Foundation and OpenAI are setting up a $50 million partnership to help African countries use artificial intelligence to improve their health systems. The partnership, called Horizon1000, plans to work with African leaders to work out how b...

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