A global diet that increasingly includes ultra-processed foods is having a negative impact on the diversity of plant species available for human consumption while also damaging human and planetary health, according to a commentary ...
Mar 28, 2022
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A regional corner of Africa is a hotspot for cases of HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, prompting researchers to call for targeted health support rather than a national response.
Feb 25, 2022
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The healthcare costs of female genital mutilation, or FGM for short, are set to almost double to an annual $US 2.1 billion by 2047, unless the practice is abandoned completely, reveals a World Health Organization modeling ...
Feb 1, 2022
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To the casual observer, Twitter may appear to be a vehicle for venting frustrations, dunking on public figures or getting into trouble for things you said 10 years before you were famous. But what if all those tweets, across ...
Jan 25, 2022
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Babies born in cities are surprisingly at increased risk of death in their first month of life compared with their counterparts in rural areas in Tanzania, a study says.
Jan 18, 2022
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Governments need to be careful about the messaging around compulsory mask wearing to ensure the policy is fully effective, say researchers.
Jan 10, 2022
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Tobacco-style public health campaigns are needed to spell out the full extent of the harms of ultra processed foods, argue public health experts in the open access journal BMJ Global Health.
Dec 21, 2021
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A COVID-19 antibody survey conducted in Sierra Leone is the first nationally representative investigation of COVID-19 seroprevalence conducted on the African continent and presents evidence of large-scale underreporting of ...
Dec 21, 2021
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West African nations need to drastically ramp up their COVID-19 vaccination programmes by factor of 10 if they are to reach at least 60% coverage by 2022 and achieve the population level immunity needed to bring the pandemic ...
Dec 14, 2021
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European governments have struggled to manage the pandemic well and maintain public trust, finds an analysis of the handling of the COVID-19 crisis by Germany, Sweden, and the UK, published in the open access journal BMJ ...
Dec 6, 2021
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