Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Empowering our neighbours to tackle biological threats
A smartphone app created in Adelaide is helping developing nations swiftly combat biological threats to humans or animals.
Oct 1, 2020
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New pox discovered in Eastern Europe, but not deadly
Health officials have discovered a new germ in Eastern Europe that is related to the dreaded smallpox and monkeypox viruses but so far seems far less threatening.
Mar 25, 2015
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Use of tobacco and marijuana products regularly featured in hip-hop music videos
Over the past decade, hip-hop music has become a world-wide phenomenon and, in 2017, surpassed rock as the biggest music genre in the United States. Up until now little has been known about how often, or in what context, ...
Oct 15, 2018
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Surgeon General sounding alarm on teens' use of e-cigarettes
The U.S. surgeon general is calling e-cigarettes an emerging public health threat to the nation's youth.
Dec 8, 2016
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FDA approves lifesaving test for tuberculosis
A health scourge once considered to be largely contained in the United States has made an alarming resurgence in parts of the country. Recent tuberculosis outbreaks – including an episode in South Carolina that infected ...
Aug 22, 2013
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Q&A: Expert discusses prevalence of hepatitis C in US state prisons
The World Health Organization has a goal to eliminate hepatitis C as a public health threat by 2030. The blood-borne virus affects more than 2 million people in the United States and killed more than 15,700 people nationwide ...
Sep 28, 2023
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Ten years on, the SARS outbreak that changed Hong Kong
With its bustling streets, shops and busy restaurants, little suggests that ten years ago Amoy Gardens was on the front line of Hong Kong's battle with a virus that caused a global health crisis.
Mar 15, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Your kid is having a meltdown in the supermarket: What to do in tough parenting moments
You walk into a room. You are going to play a game. Your competitors? Other parents.
Dec 16, 2021
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Change health messaging to focus on potential impact to help stop the next pandemic
Changing public health messaging to focus on the impact of our actions—for example the potentially harmful impact of infecting a colleague with a cold, rather than whether we will infect them if we go into work in the first ...
Jul 9, 2018
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'Cycling' antibiotics might help combat resistance, study suggests
(HealthDay)—Doctors might be able to overcome antibiotic-resistant bacteria by swapping out the antibiotics used to treat a patient, providing a "one-two" punch that keeps the germs reeling, a new Danish study suggests.
Sep 26, 2013
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