Topic: Health — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-13 21:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. gestures as he answers questions at the ASEAN Editors and Economic Opinon Leaders Forum in Makati, Philippines on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)
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[2026-04-13 21:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. do jumping jacks as he arrives at the New Executive Building in Malacañang for a press briefing
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[2026-04-13 21:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday tagged as liars those who have been spreading unverified reports about his health. Marcos made the assertion in a hastily called press briefing with the Malacañang Press Corps. Talks that the chief executive has fallen seriously ill resurfaced last week as critics claimed that photos and videos published following the Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor) commemoration last April 9 were either ‘throwbacks’ or AI-generated.
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[2026-04-13 21:04 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: A gang rapist recaptured after spending five days on the run following a hospital escape while under guard by immigration officials has been refused bail in court.Michael Angok, 30, did not apply for bail and it was formally refused by Judge Rachael Wong when the matter was mentioned in Blacktown Local Court on Monday.The matter will return to court on June 5, according to court documents.The search continues for the 30-year-old escapee.
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[2026-04-13 20:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The effects of spider bites are putting more people in hospital in England than 10 years ago, according to a freedom of information request by the Press Association.
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[2026-04-13 20:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A fatty bulge at the base of the neck — commonly known as a “buffalo hump” — isn’t always just a cosmetic concern, as experts say it can sometimes signal an underlying condition.
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[2026-04-13 20:33 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The government said Monday it will ban stockpiling medical syringes and needles starting Tuesday amid woes over supply disruption.
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[2026-04-13 20:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 13 (Yonhap) -- The government said Monday it will ban stockpiling medical syringes and needles starting Tuesday amid woes over supply disruption.
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[2026-04-13 20:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Four teenagers have been arrested after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed and later died in hospital.
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[2026-04-13 20:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Nouriel Roubini predicted the 2008 financial crisis – now he says an explosion of hi-tech will be unlike anything mankind has ever seen, trivialising near-term headwinds
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[2026-04-13 20:06 UTC+10:00] [AI] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Nouriel Roubini predicted the 2008 financial crisis – now he says an explosion of hi-tech will be unlike anything mankind has ever seen, trivialising near-term headwinds
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[2026-04-13 19:44 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Health and Disability Minister Mark Butler will use a keynote speech next week to reveal Labor’s plans for slowing down growth in the $50 billion National Disability Insurance Scheme, as the Coalition lends its support to cracking down on unregistered providers in the program.
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[2026-04-13 19:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Data to be used from eight additional sites across the city in an effort to provide more accurate readings and issue faster warnings
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[2026-04-13 19:40 UTC+10:00] [Kwun Tong] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Data to be used from eight additional sites across the city in an effort to provide more accurate readings and issue faster warnings
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[2026-04-13 19:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Health workers walk through an ally to administrate polio vaccine among children at a neighbourhood in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, April 13, 2026. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
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[2026-04-13 19:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: BEIJING, April 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2021, there were 11.96 million new stroke cases worldwide, with ischemic stroke (IS) accounting for 65.3%. China has an estimated 17.8 million stroke survivors, 86.8% of which are ischemic. For large vessel occlusion (LVO), mechanical thrombectomy (MT) is the gold standard, extending the treatment window from 4.5 to 24 hours.
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[2026-04-13 19:30 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: In four odd years, everything will change for Australians on Ozempic. The weight loss wonder drug will go from costing about $300 a month for private patients, depending on the dosage, to a small fraction of that.
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[2026-04-13 19:30 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: April 13, 2026 — 7:30pm
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[2026-04-13 19:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: SHANGHAI, April 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- At CMEF 2026, VITAL MedTech, the healthcare unit of VITAL MATERIALS, unveiled a full range of innovations based on its semiconductor core technologies. It demonstrated its full vertical integration across core materials, chips, and medical systems.
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[2026-04-13 19:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: CEO of Hong Kong Technology Venture Company says research meant to alleviate elderly patients’ suffering, after protests against animal experiments
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[2026-04-13 19:07 UTC+10:00] [Ricky Wong Wai-kay] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: CEO of Hong Kong Technology Venture Company says research meant to alleviate elderly patients’ suffering, after protests against animal experiments
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[2026-04-13 19:00 UTC+10:00] [Bowel cancer] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: PhenMap tool could spare thousands of patients from treatment that would be ineffective for them
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[2026-04-13 18:48 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: A South Korean court has sentenced a woman in her 90s to prison for helping launder drug proceeds on behalf of her son, a trafficking ringleader currently jailed in Cambodia.
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[2026-04-13 18:47 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: As disease-carrying “killer ticks” become active, South Korea has launched its annual surveillance program to monitor the infectious disease they spread — an illness that has claimed 422 lives in the country so far and still has no approved treatment.
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[2026-04-13 18:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Hong Kong court says ruling on Wong Chun-kit, who killed mother amid delusion that she was ‘monster lizard’, is ‘most appropriate’ for public safety and his welfare
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[2026-04-13 18:21 UTC+10:00] [Tuen Mun] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Hong Kong court says ruling on Wong Chun-kit, who killed mother amid delusion that she was ‘monster lizard’, is ‘most appropriate’ for public safety and his welfare
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[2026-04-13 18:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Local officials in Cap‑Haïtien said severe overcrowding during traditional Easter festivities at the Citadelle Laferrière triggered the incident, causing asphyxiation and trampling. At least 30 people were reported killed, and dozens were injured, with around 30 patients still in hospital on Sunday, while others remained unaccounted for, raising concerns about crowd safety at large public gatherings.
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[2026-04-13 17:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The US military said Sunday that it blew up two boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing a total of five people and leaving one survivor, as the Trump administration pursues its campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America while preparing a naval blockade of Iranian ports.
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[2026-04-13 17:57 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Two nurses at Haeundae Paik Hospital in Busan have drawn attention online for assisting patients in medical emergencies outside the hospital, including incidents at an overseas restaurant and aboard a domestic train, the hospital said Monday.
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[2026-04-13 16:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A total of 7,693 people have been admitted to hospitals since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran, with 104 still hospitalised, the Israeli health ministry said.
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[2026-04-13 16:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The city’s ‘companion service’ aims to help single-person households move house or visit hospital
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[2026-04-13 16:28 UTC+10:00] [Japan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The city’s ‘companion service’ aims to help single-person households move house or visit hospital
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[2026-04-13 16:26 UTC+10:00] [Culture / TV & radio] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: I guess this is growing up. It’s been four years since Euphoria was last on our screens, and in its season three premiere, we reunite with our favourite messed-up teenagers five years since we last saw them either watching a school play or dodging bullets. Without the common thread of high school tying their drug binges, criminality and playwriting together, though, the result is an assemblage of highly stylised, richly saturated stories whose common thread seems to be “how much
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[2026-04-13 16:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Premier Roger Cook made a huge commitment to health spending on Monday, but where the money would go was not immediately clear. (ABC News: Courtney Withers)
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[2026-04-13 16:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: The Medical City (TMC) Ortigas launched a 55-bed ward on Monday to expand access to health care for poor patients. Dr. Ruben Kasala, CEO of TMC Ortigas, said the Dr. Alfredo R.A. Bengzon Patient Access Ward was named after the late president of TMC and former Health secretary who championed healthcare access to all Filipinos.
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[2026-04-13 15:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Britney Spears arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” on July 22, 2019. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
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[2026-04-13 15:30 UTC+10:00] [Politics / WA] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The $1.8 billion Women’s and Babies Hospital in Murdoch will likely blow out, with both Premier Roger Cook and Health Infrastructure Minister John Carey flagging construction cost pressures were impacting the state’s entire hospital infrastructure pipeline.
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[2026-04-13 15:15 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Yuhan Corp. said Monday its investigational drug YH35995 has received designation as an orphan drug from the US Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of Gaucher disease.
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[2026-04-13 14:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:State and Territory Parliament
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[2026-04-13 14:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Many don’t realize that building a stronger, more affordable America is directly tied to the growth of US chemical production. National defense, energy independence, modern health care, food production, and most other supply chains depend on chemistry. It’s the driving force that helps strengthen our nation’s position in global markets, and advance technological progress.
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[2026-04-13 14:00 UTC+10:00] [Women's health] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: At the height of Covid, hundreds of cancer patients had mastectomies without the reconstruction that would normally accompany them. They would eventually get the surgery, they were told – but for many that promise feels more meaningless by the day
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[2026-04-13 13:30 UTC+10:00] [public health] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Readers discuss the government’s plan for a multi-storey pig farm, Discovery Bay transport, and English teachers
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[2026-04-13 12:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: ABC Midwest & Wheatbelt
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[2026-04-13 12:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: In 2023, Euphoria star Angus Cloud tragically passed away from a drug overdose. Naturally that means that his beloved character Fezco can’t possibly return to the HBO show — or does it?
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[2026-04-13 11:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The Pentagon is seen from an airplane, Tuesday, April 7, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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[2026-04-13 10:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: An Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese town of Beit Yahoun killed a Red Cross paramedic and injured another emergency worker, Lebanon’s Health Ministry and the Lebanese Red Cross said.
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[2026-04-13 07:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: “The Trump Administration is considering automatically enrolling Medicare beneficiaries in private insurance plans — a k a Medicare Advantage — as a default,” cheer The Wall Street Journal’s editors, as this “may be the single most effective way to reduce Medicare waste, fraud and abuse.” Democrats falsely claim “Medicare Advantage is wasting money”; in fact, Congress created the program “to improve care for seniors and restrain spending”: “Insurers use savings from reducing waste to lower patient costs and offer supplemental
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[2026-04-13 07:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A Southwest Airlines crew touchingly honored a 2-year-old “hero” passenger with a heartwarming pre-flight announcement during his final journey home from New York after grueling cancer treatments.
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[2026-04-13 06:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Helen Edwards could never have imagined a virus she may have had since childhood would leave her with brain damage.
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[2026-04-13 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Penny Rushby-Smith says her son Felix has benefited significantly from Kiama's SENTRAL Youth Services by confiding in staff on social issues. (Supplied: Penny Rushby-Smith)
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