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Social determinants such as quality housing, education, and job opportunities can influence people’s health outcomes more than genetic influences or access to healthcare, according to a WHO report.

Housing, education, jobs vital to health outcomes, not genes: WHO

HQ Team May 6, 2025: Social determinants such as quality housing, education, and job opportunities can influence people’s health outcomes more than genetic.

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May 6, 2025
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UK scientists at biotech company Stablepharma have developed a tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that is completely stable at room temperature and does not need to be refrigerated or frozen.

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UK company starts trial on first ‘fridge-free’ tetanus-diphtheria vaccine

HQ Team May 1, 2025: UK scientists at biotech company Stablepharma Ltd. have developed a tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that is completely stable at room.

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May 1, 2025
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The United Nations has warned that “unprecedented” global aid cuts could derail a three-year trend of a 40% decline in maternal deaths as one maternal death occurred every two minutes worldwide in 2023.

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Maternal mortality rates may fail UN goal, global aid cuts the main culprit

HQ Team April 9, 2025: The United Nations has warned that “unprecedented” global aid cuts could derail a three-year trend of a 40%.

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April 9, 2025
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AstraZeneca’s combination drug for the treatment of adults with resectable non-small cell lung cancer has got approval from the European Union.

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AstraZeneca’s lung cancer drug combination gets EU approval

HQ Team April 4, 2025: AstraZeneca’s combination drug for the treatment of adults with resectable non-small cell lung cancer has got approval from.

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April 4, 2025
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Progress in slowing child mortality and stillbirth deaths has received a severe blow due to funding cuts and shortages, with 1.9 million children dying in 2023 on account of stillbirths.

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Funding cuts ‘severely’ bleeding UN’s child survival, stillbirth programs

HQ Team March 25, 2025: Progress in slowing child mortality and stillbirth deaths has received a severe blow due to global funding cuts.

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March 25, 2025
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Tau proteins in brain neurons can form neurofibrillary tangles, which are a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, and these abnormal proteins also accumulate in the dying cells in the retina of the eyes of the patients with the condition, investigators at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center found.

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Abnormal protein accumulation in patient’s eyes linked to Alzheimer’s

HQ Team March 4, 2025: Tau proteins in brain neurons can form neurofibrillary tangles, which are a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, and these.

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March 4, 2025
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Annual deaths caused by breast cancer globally will rise 68% to 1.1 million by 2050, according to a report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a specialised arm of the World Health Organization.

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Breast cancer death rates globally to rise 68% by 2050: WHO arm IARC warns

Annual deaths caused by breast cancer globally will rise 68% to 1.1 million by 2050, according to a report from the International Agency.

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February 25, 2025
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Global deaths due to COVID-19 have fallen by 95% since January, and nations need to take steps to manage virus variants alongside other infectious diseases, the WHO director-general said.

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WHO warns of global health crisis in 50 nations as USAID freezes funds

Bharti Jayshankar February 17, 2025: The suspension of US foreign aid has disrupted life-saving health initiatives, including HIV treatment, polio eradication, and responses.