How climate change is accelerating the advance of a devastating brain infection
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSatish 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 minuteRacism, 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 minuteEngland’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 minuteTrade 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 minutePeople 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 minuteMinisters 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 minuteA 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 minuteThe 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 minuteSouth 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 minuteIncreased drug resistance in bacteria causing bloodstream infections, including against last-resort antibiotics, was seen in the first year of the coronavirus pandemic,…