Health

Portimão hospital reaches milestone of 100 robotic surgeries

Portimão Hospital has completed its 100th robotic surgery, just over a year after becoming the first public hospital in the Algarve to introduce the technology. The hospital’s robotic surgery programme The post Portimão hospital reaches…

Fitness coach explains why Japan’s obesity rate is far lower than US’s: ‘Saw it firsthand’

Is investors’ love affair with India ending?

In July 2024, India’s weight in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, a leading gauge of stocks in developing economies, hit a record high of 19.99 per cent. At the time, this was less than three percentage points below China’s weight, which at…

Antic's 'dangerous' comments on vaccinations condemned

South Australian Liberal senator Alex Antic has been roundly condemned over comments he made about vaccinations after avian influenza was found on Australia's southern coast.

Gawad Kalinga founder moved to Bulacan jail

CITY OF MALOLOS, Bulacan—Gawad Kalinga founder Antonio Meloto, 76, is now at the Bulacan Provincial Jail here after a local court denied his petition for hospital arrest in connection with qualified trafficking charges. Bulacan Provincial…

H.B. Fuller nears a $628 million deal for UK wound-care maker AMS, over its own investor’s objections

The US adhesives group has agreed a 285 pence-a-share cash offer for Advanced Medical Solutions, even as an activist shareholder demands it abandon the pursuit. H.B. Fuller, the St Paul, Minnesota adhesives maker, is closing in on a…

Algarve tops Portugal for smoking, ranks high for alcohol

The Algarve has the highest proportion of smokers in mainland Portugal and records the country’s third-highest rate of alcohol consumption, according to the 2025 National Health Survey released this week The post Algarve tops Portugal for…

Delhi bureaucracy rejig: Ministers’ aides, senior health officials among 50 transferred

Headed to the ER? Here's why you could now wait more than 48 hours to be admitted

A report released Thursday by the Canadian Institute for Health Information found that limited emergency room capacity, difficulties in accessing standard care and the country's aging population are to blame for patients spending more than…

Europe braced for another day of extreme heat as warnings issued across UK, France and Italy – live

UK June heat record could be broken for the second consecutive day Paris mayor Emmanuel Gregoire said there had been an “increase in mortality” in the capital owing to the heatwave, without giving any figures, AFP reported. He said “pretty…

World expresses solidarity with Venezuela after deadly earthquakes, offers assistance

Venezuelans saw buildings crumbling on Wednesday evening when two powerful earthquakes shook the country, leaving at least 32 dead and hundreds injured. Video footage showed emergency workers scrambling over the pancaked debris of a…

Nepali Army sergeant killed, lieutenant, injured in grenade explosion in Kailali

Image for representation only Dhangadhi, June 25 A Nepali Army sergeant was killed and a lieutenant injured in a grenade explosion during a military firing exercise in Kailali district. According to Kailali Police spokesperson DSP Yogendra…