Measles vaccination rates among children worldwide declined during the COVID-19 pandemic to the lowest level since 2008, likely due to lockdowns and difficulty accessing vaccines. According to a new report by the World Health ...
Nov 16, 2023
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Arguments are still raging about how humanity could have been better prepared for COVID-19. Indeed, politicians who chose different approaches to handling the emerging viral pandemic and especially those who had abandoned ...
Nov 9, 2023
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Global warming caused by climate change could exacerbate the burden of inpatient mortality from respiratory diseases during the warm season. This is the main conclusion of a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global ...
Nov 7, 2023
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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we think about health and revealed significant flaws within our health care systems. It has also raised questions about the role of technology, as well as ethical concerns about the ...
Nov 2, 2023
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A team of more than 200 researchers around the world, involving multiple health and scientific institutions, led by the University of Oxford, has published the first digital atlas showing the dynamics of normative maturation ...
Oct 26, 2023
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Indonesia is still struggling to fight tuberculosis (TB), with the second-highest number of cases worldwide.
Oct 24, 2023
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A tropical disease once seen almost exclusively in returning travelers is now being detected in Texas and the South in people with no international travel history—caused by a parasite strain that's different from the imported ...
Oct 24, 2023
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Scientists have new evidence that a tropical disease once seen almost exclusively in returning travelers is now being detected in the United States in people with no international travel history—and caused by a Leishmania ...
Oct 19, 2023
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The health care needs of pregnant adolescents will continue to be ignored in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC) unless there are major changes to health care delivery and frameworks, according to a new study by UCL and ...
Oct 13, 2023
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Health workers need support to provide culturally sensitive care for refugees and migrants, says a new wide-ranging policy report from the World Health Organization into the mental health of migrants and refugees.
Oct 11, 2023
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