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Global campaigns to eliminate two tropical parasitic worm infections have been hindered by good diagnostic tools. Since the turn of the century, multinational mass drug-treatment efforts have cut the number of people at risk of lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis by more than half, but more than half a billion people remain at risk. The next […]
Over 1.5 million coronavirus deaths have been recorded worldwide from nearly 65 million cases, according to an AFP tally on Thursday based on official statistics. There have been 1,500,038 fatalities from 64,774,705 cases since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in China in December. The worst affected region is Latin America and the Caribbean with […]
India’s total number of coronavirus cases since the pandemic began crossed 9 million on Friday. Nevertheless the country’s new daily cases have seen a steady decline for weeks now and the total number of cases represents 0.6% of India’s 1.3 billion population. The Health Ministry reported 45,882 new infections and 584 fatalities in the past […]
The European Union expressed hope Wednesday that it could start vaccinating people against the novel coronavirus as early as next year, as Italy recorded more than one million cases and Britain said its death toll has surpassed the 50,000 mark. The head of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Andrea Ammon, told […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain More than a quarter of a million cases of the new coronavirus have been recorded across the globe, according to a tally compiled by AFP at 1700 GMT on Friday based on official sources. There have been at least 256,296 infections reported in 163 countries and territories, and 11,015 deaths. China, […]
A research team from the Universities of Manchester, Nottingham, and UCL evaluating a service delivered by pharmacists since 2011 have calculated it will save the English NHS around £651 million. They also show it will allow patients to enjoy around 278,700 more quality adjusted life years, a long term measure of disease burden used by […]
Say what? Luis D. Ortiz revealed that he is going to be a father. “I am having a kid,” the Million Dollar Listing New York star, 32, said during a confessional on the Thursday, August 15, episode of the Bravo show. The producer behind the camera asked the real estate agent, “You’re what?” and he […]
One MILLION people paid too much for NHS prescriptions last year because they spent £8.80 every time instead of buying a ‘season ticket’ NHS figures revealed 1,042,098 paid full price for more than 12 prescriptions Every prescription after the 13th is free with a £104 prepayment certificate A Money Saving Expert investigation revealed rising numbers […]
A new report finds about one in three cancer survivors (34.6%) reported having chronic pain, representing nearly 5.4 million cancer survivors in the United States. The report, appearing as a Research Letter in JAMA Oncology, finds one in six survivors (16%), representing about 2.5 million people in the U.S., reported suffering from high impact chronic […]
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