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The toxicity rate related to benzodiazepine, a drug used to treat insomnia and anxiety and doubles up as an opioid, rose sharply in young adults and youth in Canada’s Ontario province that borders the US.
Drugs Health Pharma

Rising toxicity in Benzos snorted by Ontario’s young adults raises alarm in Canada

HQ Team June 20, 2023: The toxicity rate related to benzodiazepine, a drug used to treat insomnia and anxiety and doubles up as

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Access to pain relief medication, morphine, is ‘one of the most heinous, hidden inequities in global health’ with the richest 10% of countries possessing 90% of distributed morphine-equivalent opioids, according to a WHO report.
Drugs Health Pharma

Denial of morphine most ‘heinous’ inequity in global health: WHO

HQ Team June 17, 2023: Access to pain relief medication, morphine, is ‘one of the most heinous, hidden inequities in global health’ with

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The UN has adopted a new manifesto, the Rabat Declaration, to strengthen the global commitment to improve the health of refugees and migrants.
Climate Drugs Health Pharma

UN adopts Rabat Declaration on refugee, migrant health

HQ Team June 17, 2023: The UN has adopted a new manifesto, the Rabat Declaration, to strengthen the global commitment to improve the health

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obesity
Climate Health Medical

An epidemic of early onset cancer hits the younger generation

HQ Team June 16, 2023: Cancer has been striking young people more in recent times. A recent study in Nature dubs it the early-onset cancer

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The number of sequences to detect the presence of the Covid-19 viral genome, being shared with WHO, has dropped by more than 90%, and the number of countries sharing them has fallen by a third.
Drugs Health Medical Pharma

FDA committee recommends updating COVID booster shots to include new variants

"We need a periodic update. Second, it’s time to move from the current bivalent to a monovalent vaccines."

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Sudan conflict
Climate Health Medical Uncategorized

Sudan health system on brink of collapse, damage may last for decades

“The fighting has paralysed health and rescue workers, and many are dying in this situation.”

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Scientists need to shut their umbrellas and step out into the rain to understand the weather conditions instead of relying on remote sensing while remaining dry inside a room.
Climate Health Pharma

Scientists must shut umbrellas and step into rain to learn more

HQ Team June 15, 2023: Scientists need to shut their umbrellas and step out into the rain to understand the weather conditions instead

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The world’s total number of people displaced by war, persecution, violence, and human rights abuses rose to 108.4 million in 2022 from 19.1 million the previous year, the UN stated.
Health Medical Pharma

Russia-Ukraine war refugee outflow fastest since World War II

HQ Team June 15, 2023: The world’s total number of people displaced by war, persecution, violence, and human rights abuses rose to 108.4

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A new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique has revealed that the Covid-19 virus alters white matter in the brain.
Drugs Health Pharma

MRI technique shows Covid-19 virus alters white matter in brain

HQ Team June 15, 2023: A new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique has revealed that the Covid-19 virus alters white matter in the

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About 16.2 bits of microplastic are inhaled by humans every hour — that constitutes a credit card for an entire week, according to research published by the American Institute of Physics.
Climate Health Pharma

Humans inhale microplastics equal to a credit card every week

HQ Team June 14, 2023: About 16.2 bits of microplastic are inhaled by humans every hour — that constitutes a credit card for

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