The Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicenter of an mpox outbreak, on Thursday received its first vaccines—almost half of 200,000 doses donated by the European Union and due to arrive by the end of the week to fight ...
Sep 5, 2024
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The Democratic Republic of Congo said Thursday an mpox outbreak has killed 548 people there this year, as the first case outside Africa of the virus's more dangerous variant was recorded in a traveler in Sweden.
Aug 15, 2024
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New research looking at young people's attitudes to gambling harms reveals Australian teens feel strongly about the lack of action by government to protect them from a relentless flow of marketing relating to gambling and ...
Aug 1, 2024
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Over the last 20 years, there has been a tenfold increase in reports of dengue—an infectious disease that spreads to humans through the bite of infected Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes.
May 6, 2024
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Vaping is a pressing public health issue. While adult smoking rates continue to fall, vaping rates are rising. Some 7% of adults now vape daily, up nearly three-fold since 2019. Most alarmingly, the rate of current vape use—on ...
Mar 25, 2024
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Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) Political Science Honors student, Alexa Schluter, is the lead author of the paper "In the COVID-19 pandemic, who did we trust? An eight-country cross-sectional study" ...
Sep 5, 2023
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The German government approved a draft law Wednesday legalizing the purchase and possession of cannabis for recreational use, with the health minister pushing back against criticism of the controversial plans.
Aug 16, 2023
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The government has announced plans to make it a crime not to report child abuse. As part of this, the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, has vowed to "stamp out" grooming gangs who perpetuate child exploitation. Ending child sexual ...
Apr 19, 2023
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Three years ago, Boris Johnson made a unique address to the British public. Sitting at a desk in Downing Street, hands firmly clasped and hair more kempt than usual, Johnson told the nation: "You must stay at home."
Mar 24, 2023
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The UN health agency said it would hold an emergency meeting Tuesday after at least nine people in Equatorial Guinea died from Marburg haemorrhagic fever, a cousin of the Ebola virus.
Feb 14, 2023
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