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Gut bacteria nurture the immune system – for cancer patients, a diverse microbiome can protect against dangerous treatment complications

One promising treatment for patients with blood cancers is stem cell transplantation. Doctors completely eliminate the patient’s immune system by aiming chemotherapy, radiation or both at their bone marrow before replacing it with a donor’s immune system. Because the bone marrow produces blood and immune cells, completely substituting cancerous bone…

The Conversation

With 30% jump in Covid cases in two weeks, WHO says pandemic ‘nowhere near over’

Covid pandemic remains a public health emergency of international concern, says WHO

The Independent UK

As Covid deaths in the UK pass the grim milestone of 200,000, what have we learned?

While new variants and vaccinations have reduced death rates, and we are living with Covid, misconceptions still linger, says global health expert Devi Sridhar

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S. Korea Expands Booster Shots as COVID-19 Cases Creep Up

Health officials in South Korea are expanding booster shots to adults 50 and over as COVID-19 cases creep up again across the country. The 40,226 new cases reported Wednesday marked the country’s highest daily jump in more than two months, although hospitalizations and deaths remain stable, AFP said. Baek Gyeongran,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

High-Fat Diets Could Deteriorate the Brain, New Study Finds

New research, published in the latest issue of the journal Metabolic Brain Disease, shows that fatty foods may not only be adding to your waistline but also playing havoc with your brain. The international study led by University of South Australia (UniSA) neuroscientists Professor Xin-Fu Zhou and Associate Professor Larisa…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Northern Territory's banana freckle outbreak grows, affecting 17 properties

The fungal disease, which growers say represents a major threat to Australia's $500m banana industry, has now been found at 16 Top End properties plus a government research facility.

ABC News

Why world's first malaria shot won't reach millions of children who need it

After decades of work, the World Health Organization endorsed the first-ever malaria vaccine last year - a historic milestone that promised to drive back a disease that kills a child every minute.

Reuters

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Shanghai sweats over small, but stubborn COVID outbreak already hampering economy

Anxiety levels rose along with temperatures in Shanghai on Wednesday, as medical workers sweated beneath their hazmat suits while administering compulsory mass testing for COVID-19 in a city that recently emerged from a painful two-month lockdown.

Reuters

If you want to be healthy in Australia today, be born to rich parents

No amount of social restrictions will fix healthcare until we address underlying inequality

The Guardian - AU

Monkeypox continues to spread. 105 Chicagoans infected as vaccines roll out, health officials say.

Since monkeypox was first detected in the city nearly a month ago, 105 Chicagoans have been diagnosed with the virus, health officials said.

Chicago Tribune

Dialysis machine inspired by juice dispenser wins UK engineering prize

Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert award-winner could transform lives of kidney disease patients, say experts

The Guardian - UK

Health authorities push to suppress WA syphilis outbreak as disease heads south

Health authorities say they are in a race to control a syphilis outbreak that started in northern Australia.

ABC News

Sydney news: NSW holiday makers to Bali urged to follow rules to keep out foot and mouth disease

MORNING BRIEFING: Bali travellers are being urged to follow biosecurity measures when returning home to help stop the highly contagious foot and mouth disease from entering the country.

ABC News

Queensland proposal to ban CSSP will drive up feral pig numbers, critics say

Readily available poisons used to control feral pig numbers could soon be banned in Queensland, which critics say could heighten the risk of devastating diseases spreading in Australia.

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The Independent UK

UK: Monkeypox cases rise to 1,735 with most cases in London

British health officials say there have now been 1,735 confirmed cases of monkeypox and that three-quarters of those cases are in London, according to new numbers released on Tuesday

Daily Mirror

Vegetarian diet benefits - weight loss, lower cholesterol and longer life

Certain diets are praised for their health outcomes with the vegetarian way of eating proving supreme. If you want to live a relatively disease-free existence, this diet is key, say experts

Chronicle Live

DWP Attendance Allowance means people with one of these 56 health conditions could qualify for extra £370 a month

Arthritis, back pain, asthma and dementia are all on the list of more than 50 conditions which qualify for weekly payments if you need supervision

Al Jazeera

Tumours disappear in all participants of small cancer drug trial

Dr Khan looks at ground-breaking results from a drug trial with a small group of rectal cancer patients in the US.

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The Independent UK

Covid warning over symptom of new strain that affects sufferers at night

‘Isn’t that strange?’ scientist says as he shares different disease caused by BA.5

Tribune News Service

Faye Flam: Haven’t had COVID yet? Maybe you’ve just been lucky

There’s a trend for experts who’ve yet to test positive for COVID to explain their disease virginity on social media, detailing all the steps they’ve taken to evade the increasingly pervasive virus. COVID virginity is becoming more special now that it describes a shrinking minority. The lucky few, like weight-loss…

Bangkok Post

Cabinet approves Opas as next health permanent secretary

The cabinet has approved the appointment of the director-general of Department of Disease Control, Opas Karnkawinpong, as next permanent secretary for public health.

The Guardian - AU

Foot-and-mouth disease: Australian government backs electronic tagging for sheep

Federal minister says it’s up to states, but mandatory system would help protect against potentially costly outbreak as Indonesia battles FMD

Reuters

Unnerved Shanghai residents brave stifling heat for mass COVID tests

Shanghai residents queued up in sweltering heat for compulsory mass testing for COVID-19 on Tuesday, as persistent small outbreaks fuelled anxiety in a city that is still recovering from the painful two-month lockdown lifted a few weeks ago.

Al Jazeera

‘Most feared disease’: Indonesian farmers’ foot and mouth misery

Southeast Asian nation is grappling with its first outbreak of foot and mouth disease in nearly 40 years.

The Conversation

What is foot and mouth disease? Why farmers fear 'apocalyptic bonfires of burning carcasses'

Foot and mouth disease – usually referred to by its acronym FMD – is the most feared livestock disease in the world. It can cripple the livestock sector, cause immense animal suffering, destroy farmer businesses, create food insecurity and has massive trade impacts for Australia.

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