“Give a Breath for Health” campaign launched on World Health Day to kickstart global effort for purchasing oxygen and other life-saving supplies and therapeutics Champion goalkeeper Alisson Becker, World Health Organization (WHO) Goodwill ambassador for health promotion, is kickstarting a new global fundraising campaign, titled “Give a Breath for Health,” driven by the WHO Foundation […]
Health emergency of climate change – Episode 1: Discover the role of health professionals in the climate change emergency. Webinar: Tue 16 Mar 2021 from 6:00pm to 7:00pm The world is currently in the grip of the worst health crisis in living memory, but the growing climate change emergency poses a far greater threat to […]
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Rotavirus vaccines made available for use in humanitarian crises: Health partners welcome landmark pricing agreement through Humanitarian Mechanism, urging more manufacturers to follow suit. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Save the Children, UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) welcome the opportunity to make rotavirus vaccine available to more children living in humanitarian crises thanks to […]
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HRH The Prince of Wales to open Royal Society of Medicine series on health impacts of climate change. A series of webinars that will position health and wellbeing at the centre of the climate change debate will be opened with a pre-recorded video message from His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales on Tuesday 16 March. The 10-part series, presented by […]
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The unusual suspects: Rare disease in everyday medicine from The Royal Society of Medicine. Date and time: Wed 24 Feb 2021 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm Location: Online Organised by Medical Genetics Medics 4 Rare Diseases and the RSM bring together a faculty of top speakers to explore how rare diseases are relevant in everyday clinical medicine. […]
How inflammatory signalling molecules contribute to carcinogenesis: A team of MedUni Vienna researchers led by Johannes A. Schmid at the Center for Physiology and Pharmacology, Institute of Vascular Biology and Thrombosis Research, has managed to identify a previously unknown molecular connection between an inflammatory signalling molecule and one of the main oncogenes. The study has […]
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Treating vision loss globally would see social and economic benefits: An estimated 1.1 billion people were living with untreated vision impairment in 2020, but researchers say more than 90 per cent of vision loss could be prevented or treated with existing, highly cost-effective interventions. Published today in The Lancet Global Health, a new commission report on […]
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Deaths from COVID-19 in Africa have surged by 40% in the last month, pushing Africa’s death toll towards 100 000 since the first reported case on the continent on 14 February 2020. This comes as Africa battles new, more contagious variants and gears up for its largest-ever vaccination drive. Over 22 300 deaths were reported […]
As Japan is still facing the consequences of a winter spike in COVID-19 infections, a new programme of work will seek to design innovative interventions to increase the uptake of vaccinations for people aged 65 and over in Japan. Despite grappling with a flu epidemic in 2019, Japan is still struggling to significantly raise vaccination […]
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Resurgence of Ebola in Butembo, North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Brazzaville – The Ministry of Health of the DRC today announced that a new case of Ebola has been detected in Butembo, a city in North Kivu Province, where a previous outbreak was declared over in June 2020. The Butembo branch of the […]
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