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Monkeypox – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Monkeypox – Situation at a glance in the UK New Delhi, 19th May 2022. On 13 May 2022, WHO was notified of two laboratory-confirmed cases and one probable case of monkeypox, from the same household, in the United Kingdom. On …

By Dr Seema Javed 2021 has proved to be a tumultuous and potentially consequential year for climate action in the US. The Biden administration’s cornerstone policy effort, the $1.75Trillion,  Build Back Better Act, has been blocked by Republicans. Lawmakers in Washington DC  had worked feverishly on a massive fiscal plan, …

Young children with a history of eating problems in the first three years of life were more likely to receive low scores on assessments of child development, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (affiliated with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). The …

NCI study highlights pandemic’s disproportionate impact on Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Latino adults The global COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Latino individuals in the United States, causing more deaths by population size, both directly and indirectly, in these groups compared with white …

Between 2014 and 2018, the number of Medicare beneficiaries on cholesterol drugs went up, but total costs plummeted. DALLAS – Sept. 9, 2020 – The switch from brand name to generic cholesterol medications that occurred between 2014 and 2018 has saved Medicare billions of dollars, even as the number of …

Safely delivering patient care during the pandemic DALLAS – Sept. 6, 2020 – Expanded telehealth services at UT Southwestern have proved effective at safely delivering patient care during the pandemic, leading to an increase in patients even in specialities such as plastic surgery, according to a new study. The study, …

The finding marks a new effort in conserving an ancient dog breed, with potential to inform human vocalization processes Bethesda, (Maryland) Monday, August 31, 2020. In a study published in PNAS, researchers used conservation biology and genomics to discover that the New Guinea singing dog, thought to be extinct for …

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that EHEC causes about 95,000 illnesses in the United States each year. Of those, about 5 to 10 per cent become life-threatening and can cause the kidneys to shut down. DALLAS – May 23, 2020 – A type of E. coli bacteria …