Health

The business case for reducing gun violence

While gun violence in the United States continues to claim lives at an alarming rate, it is also taking a quiet toll on the U.S. economy, according to new research by Zirui Song, associate professor of health care policy ...

Health

How health systems can help build black wealth

Health systems can play important roles in helping Black communities build wealth, according to Penn Medicine and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) experts in a commentary published today in the New England Journal ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Long COVID costs Australia millions of working days

Long COVID has already cost the Australian economy three million working days this year, according to a government analysis seen by AFP Friday, significantly worsening the country's acute labor shortages.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

1.7 million locked down in China's Anhui province

China placed 1.7 million people under lockdown in central Anhui province, where authorities reported nearly 300 new cases Monday in the latest of a string of outbreaks testing Beijing's no-tolerance approach to COVID-19.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Swathes of Shanghai to be returned to lockdown in testing drive

Shanghai will impose fresh lockdowns on residents in several city districts this weekend during a mass testing drive, officials said Friday, as President Xi Jinping called for China to stick "unswervingly" to its strict zero-COVID ...

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