Day: July 24, 2022

Celebrity Health

‘Bit difficult’ Fern Britton admits painful health woes are worsening in her 60s | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV

Fern Britton has revealed her painful arthritis is only getting worse as she grows older. The 65-year-old said she sometimes struggles to get back up if she sits on a particularly squashy sofa. The TV presenter-turned-author was speaking on the Postcards from Midlife podcast, when she was asked what life was like in her seventh […]

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Environment News

Climate Advocates Hoping Biden Would Declare a Climate Emergency Are Disappointed by the Small Steps He Announced on Wednesday

President Joe Biden pledged Wednesday that he would treat climate change as an emergency, but his only immediate exercise of executive authority was to move federal funding to help communities and low-income households cope with the heat. The president promised that more steps would be announced in the coming days, but many climate action advocates […]

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USA Health News

WHO declares spreading monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency

Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty Images The World Health Organization has activated its highest alert level for the growing monkeypox outbreak, declaring the virus a public health emergency of international concern. The rare designation means the WHO now views the outbreak as a significant enough threat to global health that a coordinated international response […]

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International Health Care

Second meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) Emergency Committee regarding the multi-country outbreak of monkeypox

The WHO Director-General is hereby transmitting the Report of the second meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) Emergency Committee regarding the multi-country outbreak of monkeypox, held on Thursday, 21 July 2022, from 12:00 to 19:00 CEST. The WHO Director-General is taking the opportunity to express his sincere gratitude to the Chairs and Members […]

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