Tue 09 January 2024: The 21st century has seen a massive expansion in the ways that people can consume tobacco and nicotine. Innovative new products include electronic nicotine delivery systems (“ENDS” or e-cigarettes) and heat-not-burn (HnB) products. One of the challenges this has thrown up is the tax rates on these products. Combustible tobacco products […]
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Thu 04 January 2024: Zambia is in talks with the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners on acquiring cholera vaccines as the waterborne disease rages on in the southern African nation, state media reported on Wednesday. Roma Chilengi, director-general of the Zambia National Public Health Institute, said the government has been in talks with […]
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Mon 01 January 2024: A case of the chronic wasting disease in Yellowstone National Park has raised concerns of spread to humans. In what scientists call a “slow-moving disaster”, a “zombie deer disease” is spreading across the United States after a case was detected in Yellowstone National Park. The lethal disease has no cure and […]
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Wed 27 December 2023: A new coronavirus subvariant JN.1 is spreading fast in the United States, and is now accounting for nearly half of the latest COVID-19 cases in the country, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). JN.1 is currently the fastest growing variant and the dominant one in the […]
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Sat 23 December 2023: OZEMPIC users are being advised by federal officials to verify the authenticity of their drugs due to the sale of counterfeit versions of the well-known diabetic treatment through legitimate channels. In an ongoing investigation, the Food and Drug Administration has confiscated “thousands of units” of fake Ozempic 1 milligram injections, the […]
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Sat 23 December 2023: It’s another tragic record. A new report has confirmed yet another rise in drug related deaths in England and Wales. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reports that 4,907 “drug poisoning” deaths were recorded in 2022 (84.4 deaths per 1,000,000 of the population), the highest on record. While there was a slight […]
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Sat 23 December 2023: About 4 billion people are at risk of becoming infected with the dengue virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday. Diana Rojas Alvarez, the team lead on arboviruses – epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention department at the WHO’s emergencies program, told a UN briefing in Geneva that over […]
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Sat 16 December 2023: At least 40 million women experience a long-term health problem caused by childbirth annually, according to a study published by The Lancet Global Health on Thursday. The study drew attention to the long-lasting consequences of postnatal conditions as most of them persist for “months or even years” after giving birth. To […]
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Wed 13 December 2023: Based on pre-pandemic data from 2019 in 40 European countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) has released new findings that show a worrying increase in “catastrophic health spending,” which is forcing many families into poverty. The WHO European Office in Copenhagen released a concerning report on Tuesday, coinciding with the United […]
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Wed 13 December 2023: Men drink more, are more likely to binge drink and are almost four times more likely to develop alcohol use disorder than women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Yet when it comes to diagnosing babies born with birth defects associated with alcohol consumption, such as fetal alcohol syndrome, historically only […]
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