In support of cancer control efforts in countries around the world, the WHO Academy has today launched a course on National Cancer Control Planning for Programme Managers. The course is intended for those involved in strategic…
Category: 6. Health
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Reports show how mpox clade 1b spreads through non-sexual contact in DR Congo, Ireland
In a study published yesterday in Eurosurveillance, a team led by Johns Hopkins University researchers describe an mpox clade 1b outbreak in Uvira, a densely populated city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where transmission was…
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Kennedy vaccine adviser to take a new role at CDC on children’s health research
WASHINGTON — A vaccine adviser at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with ties to health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is being given a new portfolio that will have him overseeing research into adverse childhood experiences,…
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HPV vaccines prevent precancerous lesions in vulva and vagina, study finds
Although human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines are best known for preventing cervical cancer, a new study from Sweden finds that women and girls who received the immunizations are also less likely to develop precancerous lesions of the vulva and…
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Talking Sleep | JCSM Year in Review: Top Sleep Research of 2025
Season 7 | Episode 24
In this episode of Talking Sleep, host Dr. Seema Khosla welcomes Dr. Safwan Badr, the newly appointed editor of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine and sleep medicine physician at Wayne State University, for an in-depth…
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From CTAD: For Brain Shuttles, It’s All About Distribution
More than two decades have passed since William Pardridge of the University of California, Los Angeles, used the analogy of a Trojan horse to describe molecular transport shuttles that can sneak therapeutic…
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Impacts of the Lancet Commission on Obesity Treatment, With Pooja Singhal, MD
On January 14, 2025, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology published a Commission establishing an official definition and diagnostic criteria for
obesity , aiming to alter the way the condition is approached inendocrinology .1The central conceit of…
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[Press release] MHRA approves lenacapavir for the prevention of sexually transmitted HIV-1 infection
MHRA press release
19 December 2025 — The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)* has approved lenacapavir (Yeytuo) for the prevention of sexually transmitted HIV-1 infection in adults and adolescents.
The medicinal…
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Measles Cases Are Rising — and Doctors Say There’s ‘No End in Sight’
Richard Eby knew things were getting bad when the schools shut down.
Eby is a family medicine doctor based in Andrews, in West Texas. It’s a quiet town of 14,000, chock full of all-American touches — a Buffalo Wild Wings sits a few…
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U.S. Vaccine Trial, UK Firms in Sudan War, AFCON Injuries
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OkayAfrica has scoured the internet for today’s major news stories, so you don’t have to. On Dec 19, coverage includes ethical backlash over a U.S.-funded hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau, revelations…
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