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The UK’s huge programme to lower blood-sugar levels really worked
Many participants in a UK national diabetes prevention programme who do not participate in the programme are members of minority-ethnic communities that are at particularly high risk of diabetes and its complications, scientists have said. Eligibility for the programme is determined by blood sugar level. The researchers said there was a correlation between drops in blood sugar and improvements in cardiovascular health.
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Israeli troops enter Gaza’s largest hospital and find Hamas weapons
Israeli forces on Wednesday entered Gaza’s largest hospital Al-Rantisi Hospital after the final blast of the conflict, officials said. The military claimed it had proof that Hamas tunnels were under the hospital. The analysis of video footage showed three projectiles were fired into the hospital from the north and south, contrary to the map released by the I.D.F.
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I am optimistic about COP 28
UN climate chief Christiana Figueres has said that over the past six years, the world has “failed to live up to the commitments” it made during the Paris Climate Agreement. “The US and other nations still have a long way to go,” she added. Figueres had earlier said that the world is on track to exceed the target of 2.6C of warming.
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Gaza’s largest hospital digs a mass grave
Gaza City’s largest hospital has said that it has buried “more than 100 people in a mass grave” amid the ongoing conflict with Israel. It added that bodies decompose in its courtyard and infants are dying because their incubators have no power. A statement by Gaza’s Ministry of Health said more than 12,000 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict.
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The effort to evacuate young cancer patients from Gaza was desperate
Gaza’s largest hospital has reported that it has buried more than 100 people in a mass grave, as it says bodies decompose in its courtyard and babies are dying because their incubators have no power. The conditions at Al-Shifa Hospital and other medical facilities in Gaza are worsening to new unimaginable levels, health officials and humanitarian groups on the ground said.
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Taller cars are more dangerous for pedestrians
The US has a growing problem with pedestrian safety in which deaths are at a 40-year high and the number of pedestrians is increasing by 80% since hitting a low. “The frontends of some of the best selling cars…are as high as 55 inches, producing huge forward blind zones that are particularly dangerous to children and wheelchair users,” author Angie Schmitt said.
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The trial of base editing lowers cholesterol, but it raises safety concerns
A mid-stage trial of base editing drug VERVE-101 was reported at a meeting of the American Heart Association. Results showed that after 28 days, participants who received a high or low dose of VERVE-101 had their PCSK9 levels reduced by up to 84%. They also saw their cholesterol levels drop by over 50%. The trial will continue next year.
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Health care is on its knees due to the order by Israel to evacuate Gaza hospitals
A Gaza City hospital is “out of service” and no longer operational because of “the depletion of available fuel and power outage”, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said. It added that over 14,000 people were sheltering there. The WHO has documented five attacks on five Gaza hospitals in a single day last week, its Director-General said.
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The situation in the Gaza hospitals is not good
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday said that Gaza’s medical system is on its knees due to Israeli bombardment of hospitals. The WHO had documented five attacks on five hospitals in a single day in the previous week, Ghebreyesus said. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society claimed that Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City is “out of service” and no longer operational.
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The health care is ‘on its knees’ as Israel orders Gaza hospitals to evacuate
Human Rights Watch is investigating the Israeli airstrikes on a hospital in Gaza strip that have killed at least seven people, including three children. The hospital has been identified as Al Shifa Hospital by Hamas and the Israeli military. Doctors at the hospital said the airstrikes were indiscriminate and that several patients were injured in the strikes.
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