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World should 'calm down' about China COVID variants - Chinese scientist

The world should "calm down" about the possibility of new COVID-19 variants circulating in China, leading Chinese scientist George Gao said.

Reuters

Study: No New Variants in Weeks after China Ended Zero-Covid

No new variants of Covid-19 emerged in Beijing in the weeks after China ended its zero-Covid policy late last year, a new study said on Wednesday. China saw an explosion of infections after starting to lift its strict pandemic measures from early December, sparking fears the world's most populous country…

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘Underhand’ formula milk ads stop millions from breastfeeding, experts say

Global reports say companies exploit parents’ emotions and manipulate scientific information to generate sales

The Guardian - UK

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Native Americans left out of 'deaths of despair' research

During the time that deaths from addiction and suicide among white Americans rose by about 9%, deaths among Native Americans shot up by about 30%, a new study shows.

WEKU

Commentary: We shouldn’t get caught up in the hype over new Alzheimer’s drug

This month, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new drug, lecanemab, for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. The drug, sold under the brand name Leqembi, was developed by Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai and will be marketed commercially in partnership with American pharmaceutical company Biogen. Biogen, notably, is the maker…

Chicago Tribune

How alcohol changes the body and mind

Alcohol has a profound effect on the body and mind. Here's why Dry January will help you — but just a little

Salon

County-by-county breakdown as number of people suffering with Long Covid climbs to 230,000

The study also revealed 36,889 of that number are impacted in their daily activities because of it.

Irish Mirror

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Number of Dubliners suffering with Long Covid revealed as health service struggles

New research shows that many of those with the condition are presenting to the already overstretched hospitals putting additional strain on the health service

Dublin Live

The Healthcare Sector Needs to Lead the way on Decarbonization

The recent Lancet Countdown report on Climate Change highlighted the impact of the healthcare sector on global emissions. The report indicates that the total emissions footprint of the global health sector is 5.2% or 2.7 GtCO2e of total global emissions, while contributing to 10% of global GDP. As per Health…

The Times of India

300 years of vaccine hesitancy

Vaccine hesitancy has been around for hundreds of years. So, what’s new in the Covid era?

Newsroom.co.nz

Climate change is making us sick

A day before the latest United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) began, a group of global experts convened by The Lancet published a report about the adverse health effects of climate change. Their conclusion was as jarring as it was straightforward: human health is at the mercy of fossil fuels.

Bangkok Post

Success without substance

Science is obsessed with measurements of success. Very few of them mean much at all.

360info

Racism poses public health threat to millions worldwide, finds report

Discrimination has ‘profound’ effect on health of disadvantaged people, says Lancet review

The Guardian - UK

Climate crisis also a health threat

The latest Lancet Countdown report, which monitors the health consequences of climate change, highlights the need to prepare for future calamities. Even as Covid-19 continues to spread, a recent study suggests that the likelihood of another pandemic increases by 2% each year. In the coming decades, the interplay between the…

Bangkok Post

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Bacterial Infections the 'Second Leading Cause of Death Worldwide'

Bacterial infections are the second leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for one in eight of all deaths in 2019, the first global estimate of their lethality revealed on Tuesday. The massive new study, published in the Lancet journal, looked at deaths from 33 common bacterial pathogens and 11 types…

Salon

Human health vs. fossil fuels

Extreme heat and air pollution are taking a deadly toll, but it's not too late to save lives

Axios

Report: Fossil fuel "addiction" is killing millions and worsening climate change impacts

"The climate crisis is killing us," said UN chief António Guterres in response to the report, urging a switch to renewable energy.

ABC News

Australia is unprepared for the health consequences of climate change: report

Australia's lack of a national climate change and health adaptation plan is putting lives at risk and our transition to renewables is "unacceptably slow", according to a report.

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The Independent UK

Doctors say 'fossil fuel addiction' kills, starves millions

A new report from doctors and other health experts says the world's fossil fuel addiction is making the world sicker and is killing people

Tribune News Service

Lisa Jarvis: Trans kids don't have the ‘regrets’ Republicans cynically claim

A new study confirms what experts in transgender medicine have known for years: The overwhelming majority — 98% — of adolescents who begin gender-affirming treatment continue that treatment into adulthood.

The Hindu

Lancet Commission issues call to urgently address stigma in mental health

It finds that social contact between people with and without lived experience of mental illness is the most effective way to reduce stigma and discrimination

The Hindu

SCTIMST professor included in Lancet commission on India’s health-care system

An endeavour to lay out roadmap for achieving universal health coverage for people of India

The Guardian - AU

China’s ‘hidden epidemics’: the preventable diseases that could reshape a nation

Stratospheric economic growth since the late 1970s has brought great prosperity, along with ‘western-style’ health problems that are beginning to have a devastating impact

The Hindu

‘Tomato fever’ makes news again as Kerala doctors reproach the Lancet report

The BMJ reported on September 13 that The Lancet has refused to publish a letter by doctors from Kerala, urging that the ‘unscientific article’ be retracted

The Independent UK

Lancet report claiming Covid could have come from US lab prompts anger

‘This may be one of The Lancet’s most shameful moments regarding its role as a steward and leader in communicating crucial findings about science and medicine,’ virologist says

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