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More dialogue, less debate: At an ‘Ethics Bowl,’ students learn to handle tough conversations

As Canadian federal election candidates prepared for their final debate in April 2025, youth across the country were preparing for collaborative conversations around timely and potentially divisive issues for the National Ethics Bowl at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg.

The Conversation

Five big global health wins in 2025 that will save millions of lives

From HIV to TB, scientists and doctors made breakthroughs in treatment and prevention of some of the world’s deadliest diseases

The Guardian - UK

Chaos could be coming for children's vaccines

Copying Denmark's schedule could effectively gut vaccine manufacturers' legal protections.

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US awards no-bid contract to Denmark scientists studying hepatitis B vaccine in African babies

The Trump administration has awarded a $1.6 million, no-bid contract a Danish university to study hepatitis B vaccinations on newborns in Africa

The Independent UK

Nasdaq Leads as Tech Stages Late-Week Comeback: Stock Market Today

Oracle stock boosted the tech sector on Friday after the company became co-owner of TikTok's U.S. operations.

Kiplinger

US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’

Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies

The Guardian - US

The world risks forgetting one of humanity’s greatest triumphs as polio nears global eradication − 70 years after Jonas Salk developed the vaccine in a Pittsburgh lab

It was like a horror movie. The invisible polio virus would strike, leaving young children on crutches, in wheelchairs or in a dreaded “iron lung” ventilator. Each summer, the fear was so great that public pools and movie theaters closed. Parents canceled birthday parties, afraid their child might be the…

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RFK Jr. wants to scrutinize the vaccine schedule – but its safety record is already decades long

The U.S. childhood immunization schedule, the grid of colored bars pediatricians share with parents, recommends a set of vaccines given from birth through adolescence to prevent a range of serious infections. The basic structure has been in place since 1995, when federal health officials and medical organizations first issued a…

The Conversation

HPV Vaccine Guide for Women: When Is the Best Time to Get the Shot?

Discover when women should get the HPV vaccine, how the vaccine works, who benefits most, and why timing matters for lifelong protection against HPV-related cancers.

Medical Daily

Covid denier jailed for more than three years for calling for pandemic uprising

Paul Martin, 60, made 16,000 posts on a Telegram group entitled The Resistance UK, which he joined in December 2020.

Evening Standard

CDC officials urge US flu vaccination after record child deaths last year

Americans told ‘time to get vaccinated is now’ as concerning mutation of influenza virus circulates in US

The Guardian - US

Olivia Nuzzi didn’t report what she knew about RFK Jr – could she have stopped his rise?

In the ten months since his confirmation as United States Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr has regularly made headlines. Last month, he instructed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to abandon its official position that vaccines do not cause autism.

The Conversation

American Academy of Pediatrics loses government funding after criticizing RFK Jr

Cuts, which affect projects focused on issues including early identification of autism, made without prior notice to AAP

The Guardian - US

Soaring demand causing shortage of flu jab appointments across England

Few bookable slots left as NHS urges people to get vaccinated amid surge in cases because of new strain

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Blamed for the nation’s historic measles outbreak, West Texas Mennonites have hardened their views on vaccines

Months after public health officials say they caused the nation’s largest measles surge in 30 years, some West Texas Mennonites have grown more skeptical of the mainstream medical system.

International Business Times UK

WHO Warns New Influenza Variant Linked to Severe Disease Surge, Symptoms to Watch Out For

WHO warns a new influenza variant linked to severe disease is spreading globally, urging vaccination and awareness of symptoms.

The Guardian - US

CDC ends recommendation for all US newborns to receive hepatitis B vaccine

Change marks an abrupt end to 30 years of established medical guidance. and follows vote earlier this month

Axios

CDC drops hepatitis B shot recommendation for some infants

The move marks the Trump administration's first major change to the U.S. childhood vaccination schedule.

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Evening Standard

Doctors' strike will 'take toll' on patients, warns London NHS chief as five-day walk-out starts

The industrial action, from 7am on Wednesday 17 December until 7am on Monday 22, comes as hospitals are already under pressure from an unprecedented wave of super flu

The Independent UK

CDC defends measles response as outbreaks continue to balloon across US: ‘Any attempts to spin this are baseless’

There have been more than 1,900 cases across the country so far in 2025 - reaching a 25-year high

Evening Standard

Super flu: Get the vaccine to protect grandma and grandad at Christmas, says London chief nurse

Having the jab could be the ‘one of the greatest Christmas gift’ if it means not passing flu to a loved one, says top nurse Karen Bonner

The Conversation

Is there much COVID around? Do I need the new booster shot LP.8.1?

COVID rarely rates a mention in the news these days, yet it hasn’t gone away.

The Independent UK

Measles cases are surging across the US. Experts are blaming the nation’s anti-vaccine push

Doctors say the spread of misinformation and vaccine hesitancy are tied to the nation’s falling measles vaccine rates

Reason

Court Refuses to Block Medical Journal's Retraction of COVID Vaccine Study That Had ~150K Views

The court concluded that a retraction likely wouldn't breach any publication contract, and that under the circumstances a temporary restraining order would be especially unjustified given the publisher's First Amendment rights.

The Guardian - UK

Don’t call it a ‘super flu’ – but the NHS is right to be worried this winter

An early flu season, a new variant and poor takeup of vaccines leave the already vulnerable health service in a dangerous position, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

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