Scurvy is a disease that likely conjures up images of sickly sailors from hundreds of years ago, but doctors in Canada are being warned to look out for the condition now, as a result of growing food insecurity.  A report published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) details …

Rwandan health authorities will begin a vaccine study against the Marburg hemorrhagic fever as the East African country tries to stop the spread of an outbreak that has killed 12 people. Rwanda, which received 700 doses of a vaccine under trial from the U.S.-based Sabin Vaccine Institute, will offer it to …

The girl was 13 years old in September 2022 when she awoke in the middle of the night in her family’s London, Ont., home to discover her 27-year-old neighbour near her bed, rubbing her back.  Terrified, she didn’t call out for help, but told him to leave. He did — through the …

Israelis on Monday marked the first anniversary of the devastating Hamas-led attack that triggered a war which has sparked protest worldwide and risks igniting a far wider conflict in the Middle East. Ceremonies and protests in Jerusalem and Israel’s south began around 06:29 a.m. local time, the hour when Hamas-led militants launched rockets into Israel at the start of …

The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is regulated. The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute, which awarded the prize, said the duo’s discovery is “proving to be fundamentally important” …

India stepped up its development assistance to the Maldives after the two leaders held talks in New Delhi on Monday in a bid to repair strained ties that saw the president of the Indian Ocean archipelago forging closer relations with China. After the talks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India will offer …

While a Pakistani man living in the Toronto area was allegedly planning a mass murder of Jews in New York, he was also seeking refugee status in Canada, according to an immigration consultant. The U.S. is now aiming to extradite Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 19, after he was arrested by RCMP …

A 70-year-old South Korean woman sued her government, an adoption agency and an orphanage Monday over the adoption of her daughter, who was sent to the United States in 1976, months after she was kidnapped at age four. It’s the first known case of a Korean birth parent suing the government …

Milton rapidly strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday and was forecast to become a Category 5 storm on a path toward Florida, threatening a dangerous storm surge in Tampa Bay and setting the stage for potential mass evacuations less than two weeks after a catastrophic Hurricane Helene swamped …

लेबनान में इजरायल का सैन्य ऑपरेशन जारी है. इजरायली सेना वहां भीषण हवाई हमलों के साथ जमीनी अभियान भी चला रही है. इस दौरान आईडीएफ को दक्षिणी लेबनान में हथियारों का एक बड़ा जखीरा मिला है. जो हिज्बुल्लाह का बताया जा रहा है. वहां सैन्य वाहन के बेड़े भी मिले …