Health

Philadelphia hospitals prep for overseas visitors, diseases

As people from around the world head to Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families and the papal visit, doctors are preparing to treat illnesses that they may not recognize or that normally would be treated at other facilities.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Launch of new modeling framework to investigate COVID-19

A team of SHP faculty and researchers, together with Stanford Medicine graduate and medical students and in collaboration with colleagues at CIDE in Mexico, have launched a modeling framework to investigate the epidemiology ...

Health

EU hands Liberia 42 mn euros to cut maternal mortality

The European Commission on Thursday pledged 42 million euros to Liberia's president and Nobel peace laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to help halve one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

COVID-19 at forefront of IDWeek discussions

(HealthDay)—Emerging COVID-19 science, including epidemiology, treatments, vaccines, and post-COVID-19 syndrome took center stage at this year's IDWeek, the annual meeting of infectious disease experts worldwide, held virtually ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Countries and US states move to reopen amid health warnings

Spain will begin allowing children out of their homes for brief periods next Monday. Denmark announced plans to reopen Tivoli Gardens, the Copenhagen amusement park that inspired Walt Disney. And Australia said doctors can ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

WHO says Equatorial Guinea confirms 1st outbreak of Marburg

The World Health Organization says that Equatorial Guinea has confirmed its first-ever outbreak of Marburg disease, saying the Ebola-related virus is responsible for at least nine deaths in the tiny Western African country.

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