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IBN is pleased to announce the release of the latest episode of The Bell2Bell Podcast. The podcast sheds light on PaxMedica's commitment to addressing the critical shortage of medications required to combat the life-threatening sleeping sickness crisis in Malawi. For more than 18 years, IBN has leveraged this commitment to provide unparalleled distribution and corporate messaging solutions to 500+ public and private companies.
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1 year ago Read more at Yahoo Finance

Climate change is already having devastating consequences that are reverberating across the globe. It’s also important to recognize the health impact of climate change on an individual level so that patients can take steps to protect themselves and their families. The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients KnewTM series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to know about climate change.
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1 year ago Read more at American Medical Association

Consumers won’t notice the changes, but supporters say they will make a difference over time. The Office of Health Care Affordability approved the state’s first cap on health industry spending increases, limiting growth to 3% by 2029. Between 2015 and 2020, per capita health spending in California grew more than 5% each year, according to federal data.
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1 year ago Read more at CalMatters

Ministry of Health postpones tour of Members of Parliament from Public Accounts Committee to International Specialised Hospital at Lubowa in Wakiso District. MPs were supposed to inspect site today.
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1 year ago Read more at Monitor

nirsevimab is a preventive monoclonal antibody approved in Europe in late 2022. It is the leading cause of paediatric hospitalisation in Europe. In France, bronchiolitis is estimated to affect nearly 30% of newborns under two years old every year.
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1 year ago Read more at Euronews

As reported by Tom Sykes of the Daily Beast on Thursday, the most common response is that 'he's not well." A friend of the monarch stated that Charles is showing great determination to overcome this illness, and that everyone is devoting all their efforts to support him. However, everyone remains cautiously optimistic, despite this.
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1 year ago Read more at Marca.com

IRDAI gave a green signal to senior citizens above the age of 65. 98 percent of the senior citizen demographic in the nation lacks any form of health insurance. This deficiency stems from prevalence of pre-existing medical conditions.
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1 year ago Read more at Mint

Over 70% of the world’s workforce faces potential health risks due to climate change. That’s 2.4 billion workers globally out of a global workforce of 3.4 billion. Global workers impacted by climate change hazards has increased by about from 65% in 2020 to 70% in 2024.
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1 year ago Read more at Health Policy Watch

The toolkit supports ICBs, Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) and key stakeholders in children's oral health to identify the oral health needs. It contains personal reflections and case studies embedded in the document which provide practical examples of activities and programmes that have been implemented in different regions of the UK.
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1 year ago Read more at Nature.com

WHO says only 8 per cent of hospitalized coronavirus patients also had bacterial infections which can be treated with antibiotics. At no point during the global pandemic did the UN health agency recommend using antibiotics to treat the virus COVID-19, insisted WHO spokesperson Dr Margaret Harris.
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1 year ago Read more at UN News