EU health authorities on Tuesday recommended that older people and high-risk patients should be first in line for updated COVID-19 vaccines targeting the Omicron variant.
Sep 6, 2022
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The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths reported globally continued to fall nearly everywhere in the world in what the World Health Organization described as a "welcome decline" at a media briefing on Wednesday.
Aug 31, 2022
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The World Health Organization announced Thursday that a million people had died from COVID-19 in 2022, calling it a "tragic milestone" when all the tools existed to prevent deaths.
Aug 25, 2022
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The World Health Organization's European office on Tuesday recommended a second booster shot of a COVID vaccine for older people and vulnerable groups, as infections soar.
Jul 12, 2022
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The pandemic has hit nursing home residents especially hard, with a disproportionately large share of COVID-19 infection and mortality rates in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Jun 22, 2022
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Governments and health workers in the seven richest nations will find it harder to vaccinate more people against COVID because those yet to have the jab just don't want it, research shows.
Jun 1, 2022
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Mandating the flu jab for healthcare staff is ethically justified, but the same can't be said of the COVID-19 jab, argue leading ethicists in an extended essay published online in the Journal of Medical Ethics.
May 31, 2022
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After virtually disappearing for two years, influenza is back and rapidly sweeping across Australia—and the world.
May 26, 2022
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Cancer treatments often have an impact on a person's sexual health. But doctors and nurses do not discuss topics such as sexuality and intimacy with patients as a matter of course. This was discovered by Esmée Krouwel, a ...
May 9, 2022
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Minority patient groups—including those whose primary language is not English and those who have lower middle-income economic status—with a diagnosis of metastatic cancer, are less likely to receive end-of-life palliative ...
Apr 13, 2022
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