Category: 6. Health

Christos Tsagkaris, Orthopedic Surgery Resident at Solothurner Hospitals AG – soH, shared a post on LinkedIn:

“With only a few weeks left to Christmas, the European Public Health Association Global Health Executive Team…

As international travel rebounds, patients are once again moving quickly between countries with very different infectious disease profiles. At the same time, outbreaks of measles, influenza, and other vaccine-preventable diseases are being…

Antidepressants are taken by millions of adults in the United States and are one of the most commonly prescribed medications. Some decide to discontinue their medication use due to side effects like elevated heart rate and blood pressure, but…

A new report this week from the World Health Organization (WHO) highlights the progress that’s been made in efforts to control malaria, along with the threats that could undo that progress.

Among the encouraging signs from the WHO’s annual

A top-level vaccine panel in the United States government has voted to peel back guidance that newborn babies should receive a vaccine to shield against hepatitis B, a virus that can cause chronic liver problems.

On Friday, the Advisory Committee…

“Whenever there is an infectious emergency, the public respond remarkably, as they did during COVID-19,” wrote Sir Chris Whitty, chief medical officer for England, in his annual report published this week.

“Between emergencies it is easy to…