Australia has recorded its first diphtheria death since 2018 as the country faces its largest outbreak of the vaccine-preventable disease in decades.

Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation has launched its 24/7 National Problem Gambling Helpline (NPGH), strengthening efforts to promote responsible gaming and player protection.

Meta has reached a settlement with a US school district that sued the Instagram parent company over costs associated with addressing an alleged mental health crisis linked to social media platforms.

Modern psychiatry has long struggled with one brutal reality: people at the highest risk of suicide often cannot wait weeks for therapy or antidepressants to take effect.

Illicit Tobacco The Philippine government lost an estimated ₱141 billion ($2.46 billion) in revenues due to illicit tobacco trade, while operators involved in the illegal market earned about ₱136 billion ($2.21 billion) over two years — 2024 and 2025.

As global buyers continue searching for food products that are authentic, traceable, sustainable, and rich in origin stories, the Philippines is preparing to make a confident statement on the world stage once again.

Vice President JD Vance announced Wednesday that the Trump administration is withholding $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California and warned that federal funding to other states could also face suspension if authorities fail to aggressively address Medicaid fraud.

The former head of the Trump administration’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19 told Congress that the Central Intelligence Agency obstructed his work by withholding record.

Alleging a “pattern of deception” in virus studies conducted more than a decade ago, the US government has proposed banning federal funding for a prominent coronavirus researcher whose later work fueled unproven accusations that he helped start the COVID-19 pandemic.

Claims that “women who go to university miss their chance to marry, which leads to a declining birth rate” are inaccurate.

More than 100 people have fallen ill in a norovirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship that departed from Port Everglades and is scheduled to return to Florida soon.

Passengers and crew members aboard a cruise ship affected by a hantavirus outbreak began disembarking Sunday in Tenerife as governments coordinated evacuation efforts for citizens returning to their home countries.

Protecting pollinators such as bees and hoverflies can improve both human nutrition and household incomes.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has faced criticism from public health experts over its response to a hantavirus outbreak involving Americans.

Pennsylvania has sued Character.AI, alleging that some of its chatbots illegally present themselves as licensed medical professionals.

The US Department of Justice has moved to reclassify state-licensed medical marijuana as a less dangerous drug, marking a significant policy shift.

A newly proposed US bill aimed at protecting children online would require age verification at the operating system level, raising privacy concerns.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at accelerating research into psychedelic treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

A former architect, Rex Heuermann, has admitted to killing eight women and dumping their bodies on Long Island’s Gilgo Beach, more than a decade after the grisly discoveries shocked the region and captivated the nation.

Evidence linking tobacco smoking to lung harm dates back to the 1880s, but it took nearly a century to definitively establish that smoking causes lung cancer.

In public policy, timing is rarely incidental. It often signals intent.

A relatively unknown respiratory virus is spreading across the United States. Infections of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) have been rising since fall 2025.

The past decade may rank as one of the worst in the history of US education. It marks a stark reversal from what was once a hopeful trajectory.

More than 60% of young women in Japan say they do not want children, according to a 2025 survey conducted by Rohto Pharmaceutical, the highest level since the annual poll began in 2018.