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From hidden vegetables to dinner-table rules, interviews with Swedish parents examine the everyday decisions that influence what children eat. Study: Parents’ perspectives and roles in influencing 10–12-year-old children’s fruit and vegetable consumption: a qualitative study in Sweden. Image Credit: Rido / Shutterstock

A major new Lancet Commission has listed 17 interlinked catastrophic threats that could shape global health through 2100. Zooming out to take a bird’s eye view of the possible threats, the Commissioners have counted amongst them — pandemics, obesity, antimicrobial resistance, nuclear conflict, and artificial intelligence. Driven by the motive to move away from the intense focus on certain domains, the default mode that health care governance and activism has taken so far, the Commission took upon itself the task of freeing the world from being bogged down with single issues, though the benefits of that have been aplenty, the time had come to go beyond. Launched at the recent World Health Summit in Berlin, the report urges global leaders to stop treating these issues in isolation, and start viewing them as deeply interconnected economic, environmental, and national security challenges.

More funding to get international doctors into rural and Northern Manitoba More pharmacists’ vaccine responsibilities

From eating habits to sleep and exercise, a national survey examines how teenagers' cardiovascular health differs across student groups and where schools could make a difference. Report: Cardiovascular Health Among High School Students - Youth Risk Behavior Survey, United States, 2025. Image Credit: EugeneEdge / Shutterstock

What can more than 100,000 medical scans reveal about the fat that burns energy, and why are researchers examining an everyday blood pressure medication? Study: Artificial intelligence-enabled clinical phenotyping of human brown fat. Image Credit: Love Employee / Shutterstock

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Ottawa’s year-long funding extension for critical care services is not enough, provinical and territorial health ministers said Thursday.

Uzoma Asagwara, Manitoba’s minister of health and deputy premier, said at a press conference Thursday that Ottawa’s decision was a good “first step,” but that outstanding funding issues remain. OTTAWA — A stopgap extension of federal funding isn’t enough to avert a “looming fiscal cliff” for provinces and territories, health ministers warned Thursday, a day after Ottawa announced it would renew funding for critical health care services for a single year.

Our business ads were taken down for saying 'pregnancy' on Instagram3 hours agoAshitha NageshBBC NewsIrene BreenIrene Breen told the BBC her business suffered a significant financial hit from the restrictionsWhen Irene Breen got a notification in January 2025 that Instagram was removing adverts for her company's pregnancy pillows, she was confused. What was so offensive about a pillow? She was later told on a call with Meta that the problem was the word "pregnancy". "We had to scrub the word from our entire website… from the product name," Breen said. "We had to remove all our URLs which had pregnancy in them and rename them all. "The restrictions were eventually lifted but, she said, it took 10 months of conversations with Instagram's parent company Meta - by which time her business had suffered a significant financial hit. Meta, which also owns Facebook, told the BBC that while businesses can run adverts that promote wellness, sexual health and reproductive products and services, there are restrictions to avoid users across countries and cultures having a negative experience. The company initially declined to comment on individual cases.

From microscopic surface charges to experiments with proteins and blood cells, researchers investigate what happens when everyday plastics come into contact with water. Study: Intrinsic physicochemical activity at microplastic–water interfaces. Image Credit: MargJohnsonVA / Shutterstock

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20 hours agoFergus WalshMedical editorA pioneering same-day test has been used to detect hidden and drug-resistant infections among children in intensive care. Respiratory samples from more than 100 critically ill young patients at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) were sent for what is known as metagenomic testing. It can identify bacteria, viruses and fungi from a single sample, which in many cases influences what doctors prescribe. Metagenomics can detect infections that standard tests miss, meaning better outcomes for some critically ill patients.'The test... saved her life' In March, 10-year-old Willow Crowther became dangerously ill with pneumonia, which triggered a seizure and multiple cardiac arrests. Willow, from Kent, was admitted to intensive care at GOSH. Her mum, Stacey Moore, was told she had a 50% chance of survival. "The consultant said... we should bring our family up to say goodbye to her. This is how critical and in how much danger she was of passing away.

Galderma, the Swiss dermatology company behind Cetaphil and Alastin, has agreed to buy ZO Skin Health for $1.5 billion in cash, giving the company a much larger position in physician-dispensed skincare sold through dermatologists, plastic surgeons and medical spas. The acquisition, announced October 14, 2026, would give Galderma 100% ownership of the California-based skincare company from shareholders including Blackstone and the Obagi family. Galderma expects the transaction to close in the fourth quarter of 2026 or early 2027, subject to regulatory approvals and other closing conditions.

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Skip to mainFri, October 16, 2026 at 12:14 a.m. UTCManitoba Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara, speaking after a meeting of a provincial and territorial health ministers, says the extension of one federal funding agreement doesn't alleviate their concerns about future funding.