Australia remains on track and begins rolling out the COVID-19 Vaccination Program starting today, February 22, 2021. Initial doses of vaccines will go to: aged care and disability care residents and workers frontline healthcare workers ...
Elizabeth and Bruce Dunlevie have made an $80 million gift to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and the Stanford University School of Medicine to launch a bold new clinical and research program that will transform the health of mothers ...
Taeniasis is an intestinal infection caused by T. solium tapeworm and occurs when humans eat raw or undercooked, infected pork. A three-year pilot project for the control of taeniasis in Madagascar has shown very interesting ...
Listeria can cause severe illness (known as invasive listeriosis) when the bacteria spread beyond the gut to other parts of the body. The CDC and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and state officials are ...
A suite of tools to help countries improve diagnosis and treatment of childhood cancer is being released by the World Health Organization, on International Childhood Cancer Day. The package includes a “how-to” guide for policy-makers, ...
As we all go through our journey of life, at some stage we may be faced with a terminal health diagnosis. Family, friends, colleagues, health care providers may all step up to offer physical, emotional ...
Nearly 2.3 million children under the age of five in Yemen are projected to suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021, four United Nations agencies warned. Of these, 400,000 are expected to suffer from severe acute ...
The importance of integrating mental health into preparedness and response plans for public health emergencies was emphasized by WHO Member States at the WHO Executive Board meeting. Delegates expressed their strong support for the adoption ...
A new model of disease spread describes how competing economic and health incentives influence social contact – and vice versa. The result is a complex and dynamic epidemic trajectory based on people’s behavior. The morning ...
Global greenhouse gas emissions over the last century have made southern China a hotspot for bat-borne coronaviruses, by driving growth of forest habitat favoured by bats. A new study published in the journal Science of the ...
Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo are racing to contain a possible Ebola outbreak after a woman has died from the virus. The woman came from the town of Biena, North Kivu and ...
The Australian Government has secured an additional 10 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID 19 vaccine on the advice of the Scientific Industry Technical Advisory Group on Vaccines led by Professor Brendan Murphy. Through the ...
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