The considerable physical health benefits of COVID vaccines, in particular, the significantly reduced risk of serious illness, hospitalisation and death from the virus, are well known.
Rapid climate change has a direct impact on human health. These damaging effects arise from multiple causes, such as increased allergens, changes in the ecology of disease vectors and con...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the communities worldwide experienced sharp increases in stress, anxiety, depression and suicidality. Systemic shortcomings in access to mental health servic...
Close to forty years into the AIDS pandemic, people infected with HIV can now live much longer due to Anti Retroviral Therapy (ART) drugs, a positive development that has converted AIDS i...
Los países de renta baja y media (PRMB) pueden y deben desempeñar un papel destacado a la hora de dictar el futuro de las tecnologías sanitarias más avanzadas del mundo, según el informe ...
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Most of us don’t think about cancer when we’re in our 20s and 30s. But recent research has shown that people born after 1990 are more likely to develop cancer before the age of 50 than an...
At least one in eight of us is affected by mental health issues.
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In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, we thought the coronavirus was everywhere—stuck to our cellphone screens, smeared on our mail, dangling from doorknobs, even clinging to our ...
Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide. As many as 300 million experience depression globally, with the World Bank considering it “the greatest thief of productive econom...
The availability of rapid antigen tests has significantly advanced efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19. But every new variant of concern raises questions about whether diagnostic te...
Scientists are discovering new cures for cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, and other diseases on a weekly basis; or at least that is what news headlines would suggest. Many of these press rele...
Children actively meditating experience lower activity in parts of the brain involved in rumination, mind-wandering and depression, our teamfound in the first brain-imaging study of young...
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