Malta has highest rate of HIV diagnoses in the EU
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMalta has the highest rate of new HIV diagnoses among EU countries and continues to report an increase while two-thirds are showing…
89 people killed by mystery disease in South Sudan as WHO investigate
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA World Health Organization (WHO) taskforce has been sent to South Sudan to investigate an unidentified illness which has killed 89 people. Read…
Cervical screening dipped during pandemic, figures show
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere was a dip in the number of women coming forward for cervical screening after the pandemic hit, new figures show. Read…
UK removes all 11 countries from red list
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe government has said that all 11 countries will be removed from the UK’s travel red list from 4am on Wednesday. Read…
Norway faces Omicron 'contagion bomb' with up to 300,000 cases daily
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteNorway is facing an Omicron ‘contagion bomb’ and unless effective measures are enforced, the country risks seeing up to 300,000 people infected with…
‘How is it fair hospital beds are taken by the unvaccinated when my life is hanging by a thread?’: The shocking human stories behind the thousands of operations cancelled by Covid
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteLara Sargent had high hopes that this year, finally, the pain which has blighted her life for the past decade would come…
Women suffer complications during surgery if they are being operated on by a man, study finds - but scientists say they can't explain why
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWomen are 15 percent more likely to die or suffer a serious injury if they’re operated on by a man than a…
New needle-free Covid vaccine given by a jet of air could ensure 'wide-ranging protection' against variants and future coronaviruses
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA new needle-free Covid vaccine that uses a jet of air to push it through the skin could give ‘wide-ranging protection’ against…
Trial in sub-Saharan Africa evaluates the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccine in people living with HIV
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA highly anticipated clinical trial in eight sub-Saharan countries is the first to specifically evaluate the efficacy of a COVID-19 vaccine in people…
Dementia more common in adults with HIV
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Reading Time: < 1 minutePeople older than 50 years with HIV are more likely to have dementia than people without HIV, according to a study published…