Although pregnant people are at elevated risk of severe COVID-19 disease and death, countries around the world vary widely in
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Global herd immunity remains out of reach because of inequitable vaccine distribution
In the race between infection and injection, injection has lost. Public health experts estimate that approximately 70% of the world’s
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The interconnection of global pandemics: Obesity, impaired metabolic health and COVID-19
In a Nature Reviews Endocrinology article authors from the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) highlight the interconnection of obesity
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COVID-19 pandemic has dramatic impact on osteoporosis management, finds new global study
A new study published prior to World Osteoporosis Day finds that the COVID-19 pandemic, which has severely affected management of
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Global study into COVID-19 loss of smell
People who have recently experienced loss of smell are being urged to participate in a survey as a new global
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Africa dangerously behind in global race for virus gear
As Africa braces for a surge in coronavirus cases, its countries are dangerously behind in the global race for scarce
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Study catalogues cancer ‘fingerprints’ in decade-long global effort to map cancer genomes
Cancer is the leading cause of death in Singapore and the second leading cause of death around the world, implicated
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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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Four studies look at global burden of digestive diseases
(HealthDay)—Global burdens of colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and stomach cancer increased from 1990 to 2017, according
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Findings from CARE Consortium added to global repository for brain injury data
Data from the world’s most comprehensive concussion study is now publicly available in a repository aimed at providing traumatic brain
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