(HealthDay)—In a health emergency, social media giants like Facebook can be both quagmires of misinformation and sources of social support
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Emergency help for suicide-related issues up during pandemic for some youth
(HealthDay)—Some youth subpopulations had a higher risk for suicide-related emergency department encounters during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, but after
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Emergency departments used for non-urgent cases
A new study has found that many people are still attending hospital emergency departments with problems that could be dealt
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WHO grants ’emergency validation’ to Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine
The World Health Organization on Thursday granted emergency validation to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, paving the way for countries worldwide to
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Buying emergency contraception is legal but not always easy at small, mom-and-pop pharmacies
About 22 percent of women between the ages of 15 and 44 report having used emergency contraception. But even though
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Trump declares virus pandemic a national emergency
President Donald Trump on Friday declared the coronavirus pandemic a national emergency in order to free up more money and
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Coronavirus outbreak: WHO’s decision to not declare a global emergency explained
The World Health Organization’s decision to not declare the novel coronavirus outbreak in China a public health emergency of international
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Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide
A new study found that people who presented to California emergency departments with deliberate self-harm had a suicide rate in
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Why declaring Ebola a public health emergency isn’t a silver bullet
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) a Public
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Experts call for emergency declaration on Congo’s Ebola
An international group of public health experts have called on The World Health Organization to convene an emergency committee and
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