How climate change is accelerating the advance of a devastating brain infection
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Satish Das can remember little of the early days he spent in hospital. Read More
Racism And Discrimination Are A Key Public Health Threat—But Overlooked And Dismissed Using Poor Science, Researchers Warn
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Racism, xenophobia and discrimination have a profound impact on health but are largely overlooked and erroneously dismissed with low-quality science, Read More
Covid cases rise by another 8% in a week as virus continues its winter resurgence
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Reading Time: < 1 minute England’s Covid cases are continuing to rise, official data showed today amid fears of a triple-threat of the virus, flu and RSV…
Trade unions vow to oppose anti-strike laws for NHS and ‘critical infrastructure’
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Trade unions have vowed to oppose any new anti-strike laws tabled by the government, as the home secretary, Suella Braverman, Read More
UK weather: People urged to heat main rooms as cold snap begins
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Reading Time: < 1 minute People are being advised to heat living rooms during the day and bedrooms before going to sleep as a cold spell hits…
Strep A: Ministers consider emergency imports of unlicensed medicines after admitting UK antibiotic shortage
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Ministers are planning to impose extraordinary measures to increase supply of antibiotics to treat children with strep A, including importing unlicensed medicines…
China struggles with COVID infections after controls ease
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A rash of COVID-19 cases in schools and businesses were reported by social media users Friday in areas across China after the…
Breast milk sale or donations is a risk to the infant's health
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The initial years in an infant’s life are instrumental in the development of the infant as a healthy individual. Read More
South Africa to decriminalise sex work
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Reading Time: < 1 minute South Africa today said it would decriminalise sex work, hoping to tackle high levels of crime against women in a country with…
Overuse, misuse of antibiotics has helped microbes to become resistant to many treatments
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Increased drug resistance in bacteria causing bloodstream infections, including against last-resort antibiotics, was seen in the first year of the coronavirus pandemic,…