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COVID pandemic is over but millions suffer from Long COVID

May 8, 2023

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has logged more than 104 million COVID-19 cases in the US as of late April While the World Health...

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Covid-19 no longer a global health emergency, says WHO

May 5, 2023

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Most countries are returning to life as we knew it before COVID-19, the WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a news conference The World Health...

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Strong social networks help combat climate change: study

May 3, 2023

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The research was conducted in July 2021 in Faridabad, a city located in North India, and Jubilee Hills, a region in Hyderabad in South India. Strong social...

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Lancet features Kashmir’s Govt mental health initiative

April 28, 2023

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Mental health remains a serious issue in the region, with conflict, trauma, displacement, economic instability, exacerbating its prevalence Mental health is a...

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67 million children missed out on vaccinations during COVID-19 pandemic

April 20, 2023

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World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, aims to highlight the collective action needed to protect people from vaccine-preventable...

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Pandemic publishing reduced visibility of women’s expertise

April 19, 2023

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In the first half of 2020, of the three million submissions to major health and medical journals only 36 percent were from women The Covid-19 pandemic was a...

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What happened to your data on Aarogya Setu?

March 31, 2023

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The app collected personal details like a person’s name, phone number and gender, along with access to their live location and Bluetooth. Aarogya Setu’s...

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Obscured by COVID-19 pandemic, Tuberculosis deaths rose globally

March 30, 2023

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The estimated number of deaths from the disease rose from 1·5 million in 2020 to 1·6 million in 2021, reversing years of decline between 2005 and 2019...

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Diagnostics, data and digital technology

March 17, 2023

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Connected diagnostics not only streamlines healthcare workers’ access to accurate data in private and public settings but also leverages technological...

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COVID-19 pandemic affected mental health of transgenders: study

March 15, 2023

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The paper illustrates how unstable livelihood, unsupported kinship structures, and new forms of underlying stigma can worsen vulnerabilities during public...