A community health worker in a door-to-door campaign to vaccinate people in communities in Nanyamba village, Mtwara region, southeastern Tanzania. Credit: Kizito Makoye/IPS by Kizito Makoye (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) Tuesday October 28, 2025 Inter-Press Office DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Oct 28 (IPS) – When COVID-19 hit Tanzania in 2020, Alfred Kisena’s life was torn […]
Summarize this blog post with: We all know that a good night’s sleep is fundamental to health. However, few people realize this how deeply it can affect our brains. New scientific findings published in the prestigious journal eBioMedicine show that Poor quality sleep can literally accelerate brain aging. How is this possible? How scientists measured […]
Summarize this blog post with: It was 2011 when a renowned study by a team of scientists from the University of Graz in Austria found that vitamin D supplementation led to a significant increase in testosterone levels. This groundbreaking finding raised the question of whether the so-called ‘sunshine vitamin’ could be a simple solution for […]
Stands AlabamaAlaskaArizonaArkansasCaliforniaColoradoConnecticutDelawareFloridaGeorgiaHawaiiIdahoIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMaineMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMinnesotaMississippiMissouriMontanaNebraskaNevadaNew HampshireNew JerseyNew MexicoNew YorkNorth CarolinaNorth DakotaOhioOklaOregonPennsylvaniaRhode IslandSouth CarolinaSouth DakotaTennesseeTexasUtahVermontVirginiaWashingtonWashington DCWest VirginiaWisconsinWyomingPuerto RicoUS Virgin IslandsArmed Forces AmericaArmed Forces in the PacificArmed Forces EuropeNorthern Mariana IslandsMarshall IslandsAmerican SamoaFederated States of MicronesiaGuamPalauAlberta, CanadaBritish Columbia, CanadaManitoba, CanadaNew Brunswick, CanadaNewfoundland, CanadaNova Scotia, CanadaNorthwest Territories, CanadaNunavut, CanadaOntario, CanadaPrince Edward Island, CanadaQuebec, CanadaSaskatchewan, CanadaYukon Territory, Canada Zip code Country United […]
In Hela Province, in the far interior of mainland PNG, rural women would have to travel considerable distances by road or air to reach a hospital that provides mammograms for breast screening. Credit: Catherine Wilson/IPS by Catherine Wilson (Sydney, Australia) Friday October 24, 2025 Inter-Press Office SYDNEY, Australia, Oct 24 (IPS) – The burden of […]
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus welcomed the cessation of hostilities, but said “the crisis is far from over and the needs are enormous.” He highlighted the toll of months of conflict: more than 170,000 people were injured, including 5,000 amputees and 3,600 people with severe burns. At least 42,000 women require long-term rehabilitation, and every month 4,000 […]
Mwavita Rohomoya sits with her four children in front of her drinks stall in Minova, Kalehe area, South Kivu province, DR Congo, on April 23, 2025. Minova is one of the first areas in South Kivu to be hit by the resurgence of violence; one of the immediate consequences was the increase in prices of […]
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Even one or two soft drinks a day can disrupt your gut health enough to affect your mood, a new study shows. Researchers in Germany studied more than 900 adults — about half with clinical depression and half without — and found that those who drank more […]
A child stares at the camera as he waits his turn at a UNICEF-supported mobile clinic in Boucan Carré, Haiti. Credit: UNICEF/Herold Joseph by Oritro Karim (united nations) Tuesday October 14, 2025 Inter-Press Office UNITED NATIONS, Oct 14 (IPS) – New figures from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) show that the number of displaced […]
Opinion by Katsuhiro Asagiri (Tokyo) Friday October 10, 2025 Inter-Press Office TOKYO, Oct 10 (IPS) – The cinema hall of Tokyo’s Toda Peace Memorial Hall fell silent as the Kazakh filmmaker and human rights activist Aigerim Seitenova stepped forward in a black T-shirt and green skirt to introduce her 31-minute documentary, “Jara – Radioactive Patriarchy: […]