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Monkeypox declared public health emergency of international concern; The latest health stories from around the world

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The World Health Organization (WHO) opted against calling the recent monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. The outbreak is “clearly an evolving threat,” the WHO said in a statement Saturday, though it doesn’t constitute an international public health emergency “at this moment.” An emergency committee convened on Thursday to discuss the outbreak. […]

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A third of the world have not had a single COVID-19 vaccination; the latest health stories from around the world

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Sixteen months since the COVID-19 vaccination drive began and a third of the world’s population hasn’t yet received a single dose of the vaccine. A shocking 83 percent of all Africans are in the same boat, said the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on 30 March. Meanwhile last week the total number of

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India stalls global COVID-19 death toll estimates; the latest health stories from around the world

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India is stalling an ambitious effort by the World Health Organization to calculate the global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic. Like some other such efforts (less authoritative perhaps) before it, the WHO study has found that vastly more people died than previously believed — a total of about 15 million by the end of

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Why developing countries might do better than rich ones in using new cancer discoveries

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Here’s a controversial view: the world can make real headway in the fight against cancer in the developing world over the next decade. In fact, some lower middle-income countries will do better than their richer counterparts in adapting to the way that cancer treatment is likely to change. Things are terrible now I might just

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Cancer in Africa: The untold tale

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Cancer in Africa is an increasing health issue, which must be handled effectively to limit rising incidences and fatality rates. It has been predicted that because of population increase and ageing, there would be a seventy percent influx of new cancer diagnoses by 2030. In Africa, this daunting condition has co-existed with newly found contagious

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Monkeypox declared public health emergency of international concern; The latest health stories from around the world

A third of the world have not had a single COVID-19 vaccination; the latest health stories from around the world

India stalls global COVID-19 death toll estimates; the latest health stories from around the world

Why developing countries might do better than rich ones in using new cancer discoveries

Cancer in Africa: The untold tale

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