Health

Published: 08 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Inside Juba military hospital, there is little certainty about what the next few hours may bring. A routine morning can quickly turn into a medical emergency when helicopters arrive carrying wounded people from conflict zones, or when a sudden outbreak of violence sends dozens of casualties towards the capital. For surgeons and nurses working at the facility, the...

Published: 08 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A 19-year-old teenager has become the first person in the UK to undergo a testicular tissue transplant, in a pioneering medical procedure that could eventually offer boys affected by chemotherapy a chance of having biological children. The operation, carried out by a team of NHS specialists in Edinburgh, represents a significant development in fertility preservation. The young man...

Published: 08 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A small mountain village in central Sardinia is attracting growing scientific interest after researchers found an unusually high proportion of its women reaching the age of 100, raising the possibility that the community could represent a new longevity hotspot. Bolotana, a village in Sardinia’s Margine area, is located about 110 kilometres from the island’s better-known longevity region. Researchers...

Published: 08 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Indonesia's government is facing a major legal challenge over its handling of wildfires that have spread toxic smoke across parts of South-east Asia, with Indigenous and civil society groups accusing authorities of gross negligence and demanding stronger action to prevent the annual crisis from worsening. A class action lawsuit filed in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province has named President...

Published: 08 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online The World Health Organization has called for greater transparency from Russia after the suspected plague-related death of a 28-year-old laboratory worker in Siberia raised questions about what caused her sudden illness and whether there could be any wider public-health risk. The WHO says it still lacks enough information to conduct a complete assessment of the situation surrounding the...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online French chemist Henri B. Kagan and Japanese scientist Kenso Soai have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoveries that transformed scientists’ understanding of how chemical reactions can favour one mirror-image form of a molecule over another. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the award in Stockholm on Wednesday, marking the third Nobel Prize announcement...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The World Health Organization has assessed the risk of a wider plague epidemic in Russia as low following the sudden death of a laboratory technician who worked at a research institute studying dangerous pathogens in Siberia. Darya Shipilova, 28, died last week after reportedly falling ill two days earlier. Her death prompted heightened concern because of her work...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Kenya has confirmed its first recorded case of Ebola after a citizen who had been living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) returned to Nairobi and later died, prompting health authorities to begin contact tracing and strengthen measures to prevent further transmission. Kenya’s health minister, Aden Duale, announced the development on Tuesday, saying the patient arrived...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Some memories fade with time. Others remain remarkably vivid, attached to a particular smell, sound or unexpected moment. For one former student in Manchester, the memory that refuses to disappear is not of a university lecture, a first romance or a memorable night out, but of thousands of cockroaches living alongside her in a shared student house. The...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Cancer is becoming more common among younger adults at a faster rate in several countries, according to a major international analysis that has raised fresh concerns about changing lifestyles, obesity, diet and other factors that may be contributing to the disease appearing earlier in life. Researchers examining cancer data from England, the United States and the Netherlands identified...