Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story. The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political…

SINGAPORE – Just clip the device onto a person’s hair, scan and in under a minute, it would be able to tell if this individual is positive for drugs. The result from the hair scanner is displayed on a laptop. About the size of a laptop mouse, it does not require hair to be cut. The scanner is one of the future technologies being assessed by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB), and was featured at the CNB Workplan Seminar 2026 at the Singapore Expo on July 22. The non-invasive device, currently being developed in-house by the Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX), aims to improve CNB’s operational efficiency by simplifying and reducing the drug…

India's latest COVID-19 uptick has followed a now-familiar script. A rise in cases in parts of Andhra Pradesh, clusters in Kolkata, and sporadic increases in a few other states have once again prompted questions over whether the virus is making a comeback. The short answer is no. What India is witnessing is not the beginning of another major wave but the expected behaviour of a virus that has become endemic – one that continues to circulate, evolve and exploit pockets of susceptible people. The important question, however, is why these increases keep appearing every few months instead of settling into a predictable seasonal cycle like influenza. The…

A special green corridor has been established for transporting a donor kidney and a liver from Kollam to Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala on Wednesday (July 22, 2026) afternoon. The green corridor has been created for seamless transportation of the retrieved organs of B. Ajith Kumar, a 53-year-old Kollam Corporation councillor and standing committee chairperson from Kureepuzha who had been admitted to Travancore Medical College Hospital, Kollam, following a stroke on Sunday morning. He was declared brain dead early Wednesday morning while still under treatment. Following his death, Ajith Kumar’s family members, including brother Suresh Kumar B., agreed to…

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Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story. The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political…

Joan Collins has credited her youthful looks to only eating a 'quarter of what she had when she was 25,' after stunning fans with her age-defying appearance in new holiday snaps. The actress, 93, proudly showcases her ageless looks, which have endured five decades after she first found fame as a Hollywood star. On Tuesday, Joan shared an insight into her holiday in St Tropez in snaps she shared on Instagram, as she hit the pool alongside Bond girl Alison Papworth. And throughout her career, the star has offered a glimpse at the regime that's helped to maintain her famous looks, and she's insisted it has nothing to do with Botox or any other plastic…

क्या आपके आसपास भी कोई ऐसा इंसान है जो हर छोटी-छोटी बात पर आपको टोक देता है? आपने कोई शब्द गलत बोल दिया, किसी तारीख में गलती हो गई या कोई छोटी सी जानकारी गलत बता दी, तो वह तुरंत बीच में बोल पड़ता है- नहीं, ऐसा नहीं... सही बात ये है. ऐसे लोग कई बार दूसरों को परेशान या घमंडी लगते हैं. लेकिन साइकोलॉजी के अनुसार, हर बार ऐसा नहीं होता. हर वक्त दूसरों को सुधारने की आदत के पीछे कई अलग-अलग मानसिक और व्यावहारिक कारण हो सकते हैं. यानी जो व्यक्ति आपको बार-बार टोक रहा है, जरूरी नहीं कि उसका मकसद आपको नीचा दिखाना ही हो. और पढ़ें हमेशा सही जानकारी देने की आदत साइकोलॉजिस्ट वंदना शर्मा कहती हैं कि कुछ लोगों का दिमाग तथ्यों और सही जानकारी पर बहुत ज्यादा ध्यान देता है.…

July 22, 2026 — 7:30pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA For me, the 70 finalists of the 2026 Young Archie competition on display at the Art Gallery of NSW are the sleeper success of this year’s exhibitions so far – for the overwhelming message of love in the accompanying texts. So many of them are portraits of some of the most important people in the entrants’ lives. Young Archie 2026 finalist, 5–8 years, Caden Bi, “Forever her little one”, oil pastel and pastel on paper. Art Gallery of New South Wales And so, I thought, it would be absolutely fascinating to see who was…

Man jailed for 15 months over threats to Groningen butchers July 22, 2026 Photo: Depositphotos.com See more DutchNews articles in your Google search results See more DutchNews articles in your Google search results Add as a favourite source on Google Add DutchNews as a favourite source on Google A Groningen court has sentenced a 23-year-old man to 15 months in prison for sending death threats to butchers in the province and neighbouring Drenthe. Prosecutors requested a four-year sentence, saying he had a terrorist motive. But the court ruled there was insufficient evidence for such a charge, saying instead he acted out of radical environmental and…

How a tragic loss inspired a sunflower farmer’s cuddle-bed mission Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA The idea to grow sunflowers and launch an agro-tourism business came to Scenic Rim farmers Jenny and Russell Jenner in the grip of a Queensland drought in 2021. The now-iconic Kalbar Sunflower Festival was an instant success, but a year after launching, Russell was diagnosed with stage four esophageal cancer and given 12 months to live. Though he survived longer than his original prognosis, Russell’s last weeks were spent in a hospital bed. Scenic Rim farmers Jenny and Russell…

In this image taken from video, an IV infusion is administered at Pure Alchemy Wellness in Chula Vista, Calif., in November 2025. Javier Arciga/AP *hide caption* *toggle caption* Javier Arciga/AP Stay up to date with our Up First newsletter, sent every weekday morning. It's a big week for the peptide industry, and the growing number of Americans who've come to embrace the therapies touted for wellness and longevity. The Food and Drug Administration is convening a panel of outside experts for a two-day meeting starting Thursday to make recommendations on whether compounding pharmacies should be allowed to make some of the most popular injectable…

Cody Coughenour of Port Angeles, Wash. is a beneficiary of a bipartisan policy experiment that allowed him to receive Medicaid before being released from incarceration. Ramon Dompor for Tradeoffs *hide caption* *toggle caption* Ramon Dompor for Tradeoffs Stay up to date with our Up First newsletter, sent every weekday morning. Cody Coughenour landed in jail at least half a dozen times by the time he was 47 years old. First, it was crimes related to his alcohol addiction. Then, when he was 26 years old, his mother died of a meth-induced heart attack. The overwhelming grief led him to the same methamphetamines that killed his mother. "What people are…

Open this photo in gallery: Marlys Edwardh holds a feather at a ceremony opening a superior court at the Wagmatcook First Nation in Cape Breton. Ms. Edwardh died of cancer on July 14.Len Wagg/Supplied It would not be the most legally significant battle ever waged by Marlys Edwardh, but it surely had the most shocking result. Late in the evening on May 24, 1987, Ms. Edwardh’s client, Kenneth Parks, drove 20 kilometres to his in-laws’ home, bludgeoned his mother-in-law to death with a tire iron, seriously injured his father-in-law and then turned himself in to the police. All the while, Ms. Edwardh contended before a Toronto jury, her client had been in…

The Trump administration is forging ahead with a controversial plan to collect the medical records of millions of federal workers and retirees, as well as their family members. The Office of Personnel Management said in a notice posted last month that it will begin routinely collecting identifiable, personal health information on more than 8 million people — despite concerns from privacy advocates and Democrats, who have demanded the agency drop the plan. The notice will go into effect July 24, allowing OPM to begin its collection at any point afterward. In reaction to privacy concerns raised by insurers and others, OPM now says the identities of…

Aata Khari Recipe: शाम की चाय के साथ कुछ खस्ता या चटपटा खाने को मिल जाए तो मजा आ जाता है, लेकिन बाजार से खरीदे नमकीन-बिस्कुट रोज-रोज अच्छे नहीं लगते हैं. आमतौर पर लोग बाजार से खारी या नमकीन खरीदकर ले आते हैं, लेकिन अगर आप चाहें तो घर पर भी बेहद टेस्टी खस्ता खारी बना सकते हैं. खास बात यह है कि इस रेसिपी में मार्जरीन का इस्तेमाल नहीं किया जाता है और इसे बनाने में ज्यादा मेहनत भी नहीं लगती है. और पढ़ें घर पर बनी इस खारी की सबसे खास बात है इसकी कुरकुरी परतें और शानदार स्वाद. इसे आप एक बार बनाकर एयरटाइट डिब्बे में स्टोर कर सकते हैं और जब भी चाय के साथ कुछ चटपटा खाने का मन हो, खा सकते हैं. गेहूं के आटे से बनी खस्ता खारी अगर आपने एक बार बनाकर खा ली, तो आप…

HAMILTON, Mont. — The Trump administration has stepped up arrests and public condemnation of federal scientists studying viruses as the world faces one of its worst Ebola epidemics. In June, Vincent Munster, an infectious disease researcher at the National Institutes of Health, was charged with bringing biological specimens into the U.S. without proper documents. Weeks later, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) ordered Anthony Fauci, Munster’s former boss, to appear before a Senate committee, alleging that he’d lied to Congress about the covid-19 pandemic’s origins. This spring, the FBI detained a former aide to Fauci, and federal officials banned a virus…

Simulations reveal how disordered proteins cluster and form biomolecular condensates Chain of amino acids (Courtesy: iStock/Christoph Burgstedt) Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) do not form stable 3D structures. Instead, they remain flexible, adopt many conformations, and can interact with multiple molecules. Although proteins were once thought to require a fixed structure to function, many IDPs play essential cellular roles. Some IDPs can assemble into biomolecular condensates, membrane-less compartments that help organise processes such as gene expression and stress responses. Many IDPs contain prion-like low complexity domains (PLCDs),…

Health optimisation has gone mainstream. Sleep scores, wearables, supplements: more of us than ever are paying close attention to what’s happening inside our bodies and trying to get ahead of problems before they start. But for all the trackers and gadgets, the clearest window into your long-term health is still your blood. It’s where the early signals show up, often years before you’d ever feel them. Most people may only get their blood checked once a year, if that, at a routine physical. And the standard panel that comes with a check-up only covers the basics. This means it could skip the markers that matter most for longevity, like inflammation, a…

Walk into almost any U.S. hospital today and you will find AI doing some of the important work of medicine: drafting clinical notes, flagging sepsis, screening imaging, conducting prior authorizations, and answering patient messages. Adoption is moving fast, and the benefits are real. But there’s a problem. Most health systems are monitoring the safety and performance of these tools the same way they govern a new MRI scanner in 2010: a subcommittee, a checklist, a quarterly meeting, an approval or a rejection. The process could take six months or longer. That approach was already strained for older digital tools. For AI, it is dangerously inadequate,…

Neurological disorders are no longer limited to older adults or a small section of the population. Across India, doctors are seeing a steady rise in conditions such as stroke, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, dementia, multiple sclerosis, and other brain-related illnesses. Alarmingly, experts say stroke, which was once considered a disease of old age, is now affecting many people in their 30s and 40s due to unhealthy lifestyles and increasing rates of diabetes, hypertension, obesity, stress, and poor sleep. Despite this growing burden, access to specialist neurological care remains a major challenge. Most neurologists are concentrated in large cities,…

A long-awaited moment in preventive cardiology arrived last week, when enlicitide (which Merck is selling under the name Lipfendra) was approved by the FDA to lower blood cholesterol levels. As the first oral PCSK9 inhibitor — powerful cholesterol-lowering medications, that, until now, have only been injectable — enlicitide itself is an impressive achievement. It punctuates a story of pharmaceutical innovation that has glided from the stories of families enrolled in the Dallas Heart Study at the bedside, to drug targets discovered at the lab bench, all ultimately transforming care back at the bedside. It also comes at an opportune time. With new…

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India – Business Wire India Nu Skin India, the India arm of Nu Skin Enterprises, a global direct-selling beauty and wellness company operating in nearly 50 markets worldwide and driven by a strong purpose-led philosophy, has announced its partnership with The Akshaya Patra Foundation to support mid-day meals for government and government-aided school children in India. Through this collaboration, The Nu Skin Force for Good Foundation has provided support of approximately Rs. 47.5 lakh, enabling 700,000 mid-day meals for more than 3,000 students during the project period. In addition, Nu Skin India will further strengthen the…

For years, Chinese companies such as Alibaba and Baidu headed to the U.S. to list their shares, citing its deeper capital markets and higher valuations. Now, one American biotech firm is betting on doing the opposite. Axiom Biosciences, a San Diego-based developer of regenerative and genetic medicines, plans to go public in Hong Kong in 2027, followed by a secondary U.S. listing in 2029. The company says the "contrarian" move will open the door to sophisticated, biotech-focused investors while bringing it closer to clinical and commercial partners across Asia. "Some of the most important science in the world is being built in the United States, but…

From roadside eateries to large food manufacturers, Karnataka is stepping up efforts to reduce the use of industrially-produced trans fats — a major contributor to heart disease and other non-communicable illnesses. At a State-level sensitisation programme on eliminating industrially produced trans fats, held in Bengaluru on July 21, the Food Safety and Drug Administration (FSDA) Commissioner said Karnataka would intensify surveillance, inspection, and enforcement to ensure compliance with food safety regulations aimed at reducing trans fats in the food supply chain. The programme brought together Food Safety Department officials, food business…

On 21 July at 6.45 pm, as the streets of the national capital were under heavy pressure from two separate protests, an ambulance without sirens carried activist Sonam Wangchuk from Safdarjung Hospital to Medanta. The protests were taking place simultaneously, with the Opposition outside the Prime Minister’s residence, and students at Jantar Mantar. The transfer came after what was described as a small victory for Wangchuk, who was shifted by the Delhi Police to Safdarjung Hospital on July 18, the 21st day of his indefinite hunger strike at the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protest. He had won his case in the High Court and was being moved to a hospital…

As Tamil Nadu swelters through one of its harshest summers in recent years, many look to the sky hoping for relief in the form of an afternoon shower. But in the salt pans of Marakkanam, rain is the one thing workers cannot afford to wish for. Every spell of rainfall stalls salt production for days and costs them wages. So, even as they endure hours under a relentless sun that reflects off the white salt fields with blinding intensity, they hope for the heat to continue. It is a cruel irony that the weather which leaves workers dizzy, dehydrated, and exhausted is also what keeps their livelihoods alive. This year, temperatures crossed the 40°C mark…

In a statement on Wednesday, presidential special assistant Dirgayuza Setiawan said that Nanik’s reform initiatives had saved hundreds of billions of rupiah as she took action against 414 problematic kitchens, formed 11 internal reform teams and refocused the national food initiative towards vulnerable populations. Her resignation comes as the flagship programme faces another round of budget cuts. On Tuesday, it was reported that Indonesia had further reduced the programme’s budget to 229 trillion rupiah (US$12.81 billion) from 268 trillion rupiah, with senior officials of the agency saying that further cuts are possible. The programme was originally…

It was close to being removed in 2022 when politicians voted to remove the 5% GST. The government began its free product scheme in October 2022, providing sanitary items in a range of locations including public toilets and government buildings. In exchange, it reversed its decision to remove the GST. Millar said there was no need to remove tax from products in the shops as people could get them for free instead. She said: "If you look at simple facts, simple maths, if you're spending £5 a month on sanitary products, taking GST off, if the saving was passed on, would save you 25 pence. "With free products, you're saving £5 because you're getting the…

This story contains graphic details of medical conditions. A global study has found New Zealand doctors are using too many antibiotics, risking the growth of superbugs. An Invercargill mum who suffered for months with an antibiotic-resistant infection says something needs to change. Jess Barnfather was infected with MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) during a caesarean section at Dunedin Hospital in 2020. MRSA is a type of staph infection resistant to antibiotics like penicillin. She said it took four weeks in hospital and six months at home to recover. "It was probably the worst infection I've ever experienced in my lifetime," she…