UK health authorities on Tuesday announced a pioneering research programme using the genomes of 100,000 new-born babies, to detect rare genetic illnesses and speed up treatment.
Dec 13, 2022
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Global inequities in access to COVID vaccines have turned out to be a "catastrophic moral failure," just as the World Health Organization warned they would in January 2021. Yet it took 20 months of negotiations for members ...
Nov 22, 2022
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The government announced plans Tuesday to award millions of dollars in grants to expand all-hours mental health and substance abuse care in more communities around the country.
Oct 19, 2022
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A survey of U.K. parents by Savanta ComRes, commissioned by the King's Maudsley Partnership for Children and Young People's Mental Health, reported that one in three (34%) parents say they think the rising cost of living ...
Oct 14, 2022
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The U.S. government will invest $266 million to shore up the community and public health workforce using American Rescue Plan funding.
Sep 30, 2022
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President Joe Biden will evoke John F. Kennedy's famous 1962 speech on putting an American on the moon next week when he outlines his government's goal of halving cancer deaths, the White House said Wednesday.
Sep 7, 2022
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Today, the Center for Food As Medicine (famcenter.org) and the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center (nycfoodpolicy.org) released its groundbreaking, 335 page (with more than 2500 citations), first ever, academic narrative ...
Mar 30, 2022
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In the coronavirus pandemic's early days, health care workers turned to bandannas and other makeshift protections because they lacked the official stuff. That gave engineers at the University of Maryland an idea.
Mar 16, 2022
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 13, 2022, blocked the Biden administration's vaccine-or-test mandate, which applied to virtually all private companies with 100 or more employees. But it left in place a narrower mandate that ...
Jan 17, 2022
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The air conditioners hum constantly in the lab at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, countering the heat thrown off by rows of high-tech sequencing machines that work seven days a week analyzing the genetic material of COVID-19 ...
Jan 13, 2022
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