The decision by a global bioethics association to hold its 2024 congress in Qatar, a nation with laws against LGBTQ+ people, has provoked controversy, including objections from some of its own members.
Aug 7, 2023
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During their time on campus, recent University of California Santa Cruz graduates Ted Malpass and Edwina Malmberg channeled their passion for health equity issues into undergraduate research. Now, the study they helped to ...
Aug 7, 2023
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Schistosomiasis, a parasitic infection that causes high fevers, is chronic and can be fatal, has prompted researchers to come up with better detection methods and an expected vaccine. This disease, caused by parasitic worms, ...
Jul 6, 2023
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As COVID-19 took hold across borders in 2020 and 2021, more than 1.6 billion informal workers were estimated by the United Nations to have been impacted by mobility restrictions and other lockdown measures to tackle the coronavirus ...
Jun 30, 2023
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Sexual and gender minority (SGM) is an umbrella term for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, and other sexually (LGBTIQ+) and gender-diverse people. The two examples above depict the struggle faced by the ...
May 17, 2023
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Rising global temperatures are increasing the risk of workers dying or becoming disabled from laboring in extreme heat, an international conference has been told.
May 10, 2023
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A new study led by Oxford University's Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science has found that the 1918 influenza pandemic had a much longer negative effect on fertility than previously thought. The results, published this ...
Apr 6, 2023
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The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of vaccines in controlling infectious disease in sub-Saharan Africa and renewed interest in vaccine research and development across the continent.
Mar 1, 2023
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A woman dies every two minutes due to pregnancy or childbirth complications, despite maternal mortality rates dropping by a third in 20 years, the United Nations said Thursday.
Feb 23, 2023
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The sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship is the cornerstone of the health care profession. This protected space is steeped in tradition—the Hippocratic oath, medical ethics, professional codes of conduct and legislation. ...
Feb 22, 2023
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