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  • Epidemiological Update Avian Influenza A(H5N1) in the Americas Region – 24 November 2025 – PAHO/WHO

    In 2020, the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus subtype H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b caused an unprecedented number of deaths among wild birds and poultry in numerous countries in Africa, Asia, and Europe. In 2021, this virus spread through…

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  • ‘Mental model’ approach shown to reduce effects of misinformation about mRNA vaccines

    ‘Mental model’ approach shown to reduce effects of misinformation about mRNA vaccines

    Correcting misinformation after it has gone viral is a common way of informing the public that what they’ve encountered may be inaccurate, lack context, be unproven, or be demonstrably false. But repeating a misconception when…

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  • Associated factors for birth-related post-traumatic stress symptoms using a birth-specific measurement: a cross-sectional study | BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

    Associated factors for birth-related post-traumatic stress symptoms using a birth-specific measurement: a cross-sectional study | BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

  • MATERNAL NEWBORN, CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH AND, AGEING [Internet]. World Health Organization. 2023 [cited 20230109]. Available from:

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  • Study links higher glycemic index diets with increased lung cancer risk

    Study links higher glycemic index diets with increased lung cancer risk

    Background: In this study, researchers examined whether people who follow higher-GI or higher-GL diets have different risks of developing lung cancer. They used data from 101,732 adults in the U.S. National Cancer Institute’s…

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  • Inequalities in the use of three-dose of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine among women in Sierra Leone, 2008–2019 | Malaria Journal

    Inequalities in the use of three-dose of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine among women in Sierra Leone, 2008–2019 | Malaria Journal

  • Ayub AO, Ibrahim A, Abdulkareem SB. Poverty, HIV/AIDS and malaria: a triple burden of disease in Nigeria. Kogi J Sociol. 2024;4:1–15.

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  • Makenga G, Menon S, Baraka V, Minja DTR, Nakato S,…

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  • Short bursts of oxygen deprivation could help treat depression, Chinese study concludes

    Short bursts of oxygen deprivation could help treat depression, Chinese study concludes

    Brief, controlled bouts of oxygen deprivation – essentially moments of safe suffocation – can alleviate severe depression as effectively as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and ketamine, two of the most powerful treatments known to psychiatry,…

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  • Evaluation of geriatric head and neck trauma cases in a German highest-level trauma centre from 2018 to 2024 | BMC Geriatrics

    Evaluation of geriatric head and neck trauma cases in a German highest-level trauma centre from 2018 to 2024 | BMC Geriatrics

  • Grabbe C. Vulnerable Groups – Agisra e.V. 2020;:12 Seiten. https://doi.org/10.17169/REFUBIUM-26554.

  • Rolnitsky A, Kirtsman M, Goldberg HR, Dunn M, Bell CM. The representation of vulnerable populations in quality improvement studies. Int J Qual Health…

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  • Study reveals metabolic benefits of reducing ultra-processed foods in older adults

    Study reveals metabolic benefits of reducing ultra-processed foods in older adults

    A controlled feeding study out of South Dakota State University shows that older adults who ate fewer ultra-processed foods naturally consumed fewer calories, lost weight and abdominal fat, and showed improvements in insulin,…

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