Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mexico confirms its first monkeypox case
Health officials in Mexico confirmed Saturday the country's first known case of monkeypox, in a 50-year-old US resident being treated in Mexico City.
May 29, 2022
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News tagged with democratic countries
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How politics played a key role in the impact of COVID-19 in democratic countries
As the UK enters a new phase of government-imposed measures designed to combat COVID-19, a team of experts from Kingston University has released a report examining the initial response of eight democratic countries to the ...
Sep 28, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
How to stop psychopaths and narcissists from winning positions of power
One of the human race's biggest problems has been that people who occupy positions of power are often incapable of using power in a responsible way. In the past, this was mostly due to hereditary systems which assigned power ...
Apr 8, 2021
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Health
Democracy linked to global health gains in low-, middle-income countries
Most studies that look at whether democracy improves global health rely on measurements of life expectancy at birth and infant mortality rates. Yet those measures disproportionately reflect progress on infectious diseases—such ...
Mar 13, 2019
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Health
Pneumonia, diarrhea are top killers of kids: UNICEF
Pneumonia and diarrhea are among the top causes of childhood deaths around the world, particularly among the poor, said a report out Friday by the UN Children's Fund.
Jun 8, 2012
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Vaccination
WHO, CDC: A record 40 million kids miss measles vaccine dose
The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say measles immunization has dropped significantly since the coronavirus pandemic began, resulting in a record high of nearly 40 million ...
Nov 23, 2022
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Health
Corporate influence linked to slow implementation of public health policies globally
Implementation of WHO's recommended public health policies on alcohol, unhealthy foods and tobacco has been slow globally, according to a study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and the London School of Hygiene ...
Oct 19, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Measles killed more than 140,000 amid stagnating vaccine rates
More than 140,000 people died from measles worldwide in 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) and US authorities said Thursday, the result of global vaccination rates that have stagnated for almost a decade.
Dec 5, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
DR Congo starts countdown to end of Ebola outbreak in east
The Democratic Republic of Congo, where the deadly Ebola virus first emerged in 1976, has begun a countdown to the official end of its latest outbreak, this time in the east of the country, health authorities said Tuesday.
Mar 23, 2021
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Vaccination
Countries halting AstraZeneca vaccine
The EU's three biggest countries—France, Italy and Germany—are the latest to suspend AstraZeneca's COVID-19 shots because of fears over blood clots and other possible side effects, despite the company and the WHO insisting ...
Mar 15, 2021
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