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Dengue fever surges in Brazil; The latest health stories from around the world

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Brazil is seeing an unprecedented surge in dengue, a viral disease that can cause excruciating pains and is sometimes fatal. An unusually hot rainy season, along with rapid, unplanned urbanization, have fuelled its spread this year. Health officials have reported more than 1 million suspected cases in January and February, four times as many as […]

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Cholera vaccine shortage coincides with major outbreak; The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Featured, Featured Story, Infectious diseases, International, Medicine and Research, News, Newsletter, Noncommunicable diseases / Lalita Panicker

The world has run out of cholera vaccines—just when the deadly disease is on a rampage not seen in many years. Fifteen countries are currently reporting active outbreaks, with more than 40,900 cases and 775 deaths reported in January alone. But all available doses of oral cholera vaccines in the global stockpile have been allocated

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New data reveals Ebola vaccine reduces mortality by half; The latest health stories from around the world

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There’s welcome news in the battle against the Ebola virus, an infectious disease that for years had almost no treatments or remedies. Outbreaks of the deadly Ebola virus flare up in parts of Africa almost every year, and they’re vicious. The virus kills about half the people it infects. But a new study published in The

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Measles on the rise in Europe; The latest health stories from around the world

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The World Health Organization (WHO) said in December that its European region (which extends into parts of western and central Asia) saw an “alarming” increase in measles cases – from under 1,000 in 2022 to more than 30,000 last year. www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2024/02/08/1229540182/its-no-surprise-theres-a-global-measles-outbreak-but-the-numbers-are-staggering? The WHO’s most recent global numbers, released in November, reveal that measles cases increased worldwide by 18%

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Fluoridation: public health advancement or potential problem? The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Access to Healthcare, Covid-19, Environmental health, Featured, Featured Story, Government policy, Infectious diseases, International, Medicine and Research, News, Newsletter / Lalita Panicker

A long-simmering scientific battle assumed a new life this week, as experts clashed in a San Francisco courtroom over whether the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should ban fluoridation of drinking water to protect foetuses and children from the risk of neurodevelopmental problems. https://www.science.org/content/article/does-fluoride-drinking-water-lower-iq-question-looms-large-court-battle? The case, being heard in a federal district court, “is precedent setting,”

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Malaria vaccine rolled out in Cameroon; The latest health stories from around the world

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After a 60-year quest, childhood malaria vaccinations were administered to infants and toddlers in Cameroon on 22 January, the world’s first routine immunization against the disease. Remarkably, the RTS,S or Mosquirix, made by GlaxoSmithKline and approved for general use in 2021 by the World Health Organization (WHO) reduces all kinds of deaths among children –

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COVID-19 surge flying under the radar? The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Covid-19, Featured, Featured Story, Infectious diseases, International, Medicine and Research, News, Newsletter / Lalita Panicker

Is a surge of COVID happening? With lots of folks taking at-home tests and not reporting the results, how do we know the data that’s out there is accurate? “The most reliable data shows that a surge is happening,” says Jeremy Kamil, a virologist at Louisiana State University Health Shreveport. Testing data may not be as

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Wolbachia trials show promising results for reducing Dengue; The latest health stories from around the world

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Looking at the year ahead in 2024, a strategy of releasing lab-modified mosquitoes to prevent the spread of dengue fever is poised to scale up after a series of successes. The Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, developed and tested by the non-profit World Mosquito Program (WMP), carry the bacterium Wolbachia pipientis, which blocks them from transmitting certain viruses and spreads

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Eli Lilly announces direct-to-patient portal for new weight loss drug; The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Access to Healthcare, Featured, Featured Story, Infectious diseases, Medicine and Research, News, Newsletter / Lalita Panicker

Eli Lilly, maker of the anti-obesity drug Zepbound, announced last week the launch of LillyDirect, a direct-to-patient portal, allowing some patients to obtain its drug for as little as $25 a month. The move is seen as a major shift in the way these popular medications can reach patients. https://www.medscape.com/s/viewarticle/eli-lilly-offers-obesity-drug-directly-consumers-2024a10000fl?  For many of the 42 million Americans with obesity, weight

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Opioid addiction settlement reached with US Consultancy firm; The latest health stories from around the world

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Consulting firm McKinsey & Co has agreed to pay $78 million to resolve claims by U.S. health insurers and benefit plans that it fuelled an epidemic of opioid addiction through its work for drug companies including OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma. https://www.reuters.com/legal/mckinsey-pay-78-million-us-opioid-settlement-with-health-plans-2023-12-30/ The settlement was disclosed in papers filed on Friday (29 Dec) in federal court

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