Zimbabwe has declared a state of emergency in the capital, Harare, over a cholera outbreak that has claimed dozens of lives across the country, the city's mayor said on Friday.
Nov 17, 2023
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Climate change presents a major public health concern in Australia, marked by unprecedented wildfires, heat waves, floods, droughts, and the spread of climate-sensitive infectious diseases.
Nov 15, 2023
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Heat-related illness and deaths in California and the U.S. are on the rise along with temperatures, and an increase in drug use and homelessness is a significant part of the problem, according to public health officials and ...
Sep 11, 2023
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The battle to stop the increase of superbugs in hospitals has been an ongoing struggle for health care professionals. Dentists are currently facing a medical challenge of antimicrobial resistance in health care settings.
Jul 13, 2023
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A team of researchers from several institutions led by the National Institutes of Health has examined U.S. national death trends. In a paper, "Trends in Mortality From Poisonings, Firearms, and All Other Injuries by Intent ...
Patients who had heart attacks during the first COVID-19 lockdown in the UK and Spain are predicted to live 1.5 and 2 years less, respectively, than their pre-COVID counterparts. That's the finding of a study published in ...
Jun 7, 2023
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World Health Organization (WHO) experts have officially declared that COVID no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (Pheic). This coincides with the WHO's new strategy to transition from an ...
May 8, 2023
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President Joe Biden on Monday officially ended the COVID national health emergency that for more than three years underpinned extraordinary efforts to provide care for a country where more than a million people died from ...
Apr 11, 2023
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Only 56% of Medicaid-enrolled children received any outpatient follow-up within 30 days after discharge from the Emergency Department (ED) for a mental health concern, according to a large study published in the journal Pediatrics. ...
Feb 13, 2023
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The declaration of a COVID-19 public health emergency three years ago changed the lives of millions of Americans by offering increased health care coverage, beefed-up food assistance and universal access to coronavirus vaccines ...
Jan 31, 2023
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