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Quality care is a critical issue for mothers and newborn health. More women globally give birth in health facilities than ever before, but this has not always translated into dramatic gains in survival rates for ...
Most people who consume double the recommended 5g of daily salt intake are putting themselves at greater risk of heart diseases and strokes that kill an estimated 3 million people each year. Today, the World ...
Fully investing in midwives by 2035 would avert roughly two-thirds of maternal, newborn deaths and stillbirths, saving 4.3 million lives per year. Millions of lives of women and newborns are lost, and millions more experience ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Federal Republic of Germany will establish a new global hub for pandemic and epidemic intelligence, data, surveillance and analytics innovation. The Hub, based in Berlin and working with ...
Volunteer firefighters — who comprise more than 65 percent of the U.S. fire service — have higher levels of “forever chemicals,” per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), in their bodies than the general public, according to ...
In a paper published this week in Nature Machine Intelligence, the researchers introduced REDIAL-2020, an open-source online suite of computational models that will help scientists rapidly screen small molecules for their potential COVID-fighting properties. A year ...
The national rate of Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections (SABSI) in public hospitals remains under the benchmark, according to a report released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). Staphylococcus aureus or ‘golden staph’ bacteria are commonly ...
Brain changes in people with Alzheimer’s disease and in those with mild traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) have significant similarities, a new USC study shows, suggesting new ways to identify patients at high risk for Alzheimer’s. ...
A major hurdle to developing new and effective treatments for drug addiction is better understanding how exactly it manifests itself before, during, and after chronic use. In a paper published in the online issue of ...
Vaccination remains the best way to protect against severe illness and death from COVID-19 and is a core element of the pandemic response, reinforces the ATAGI. ATAGI is continuing to monitor local and international data on ...
The age-standardized death rate of Australians with dementia fell during the first 10 months of 2020, probably as a result of measures designed to prevent COVID-19 infections also limiting the spread of other infectious respiratory ...
NICO.LAB and AI Advance announced a new partnership that will revolutionise stroke care across Australia and New Zealand. AI Advance will be distributing StrokeViewer, an artificial intelligence solution that empowers physicians with the triaging, diagnosis ...