Topline The House of Representatives voted unanimously Friday morning on a bill to declassify intelligence information on the origin of Covid-19, following two reports suggesting the deadly virus orig...
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China Proves You Can’t Hide Forever From Covid
Empty shelves are seen at a pharmacy in Shanghai on Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. Look for China to start … [+] hoarding medicine and PPE once destined for export. (AP Photo/Andrew Braun) Copyright 202...
French Teens Are Drinking Less Alcohol
Use of alcohol, cannabis and tobacco is decreasing in France getty Alcohol, tobacco and cannabis use among French adolescents has seen a significant decrease over the last decade, according to a new s...
Global Covid Death Toll May Be Nearly Three Times Higher—15 Million—Than Official Records, WHO Says
Topline The Covid-19 pandemic may have claimed nearly 15 million around the world in 2020 and 2021, according to World Health Organization estimates published in Nature on Wednesday, almost three time...
Biden administration will end monkeypox public health emergency
People line up to get a monkeypox vaccination at a new walk-up monkeypox vaccination site at Barnsdall Art Park on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022 in Hollywood, CA. Brian Van Der Brug | Los Angeles Times | Get...
Groundbreaking Nutrition-Climate Initiative Launched At COP27
Contributing to the growing momentum around food and agriculture at COP27— and in a groundbreaking moment for the Conference of the Parties— Egypt (in its role as COP27 Presidency) and the World Healt...
Noncommunicable Diseases Still Underestimated, Only 59% View Diabetes As Very Harmful
The Gallup survey found that 72% of respondents supported restrictions on the advertising of … [+] high-sugar foods and drinks to children. (Photo by Li Hao/VCG via Getty Images) VCG via Getty I...
Monkeypox Cases In Europe May Have Peaked, World Health Organization Says
Topline Europe’s monkeypox outbreak appears to have peaked, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, urging all countries to intensify efforts to curb transmission and push to eliminate the viru...
WHO Renames Monkeypox Variants To Dispel Stigma And Creates Open Forum For Name Change
Topline The World Health Organization is inviting the public to propose new names for monkeypox and has renamed two variants of the disease, according to a statement released Friday, after weeks of cr...
UN Tackles Carnage On The World’s Roads
Traffic crashes claim about 1.3 million lives globally every year – more than two every minute, and … [+] as many as 50 million more are seriously impacted by injuries. And more than 90% of the ...
Coronavirus Likely Emerged In Wuhan Market, New Studies Find
Topline A pair of studies suggest the coronavirus originally jumped from animals to humans in a market in Wuhan, not a laboratory. Two studies find that coronavirus stemmed from the Huanan Market in W...
Monkeypox Vaccine Gets Green Light In Europe
Topline The European Commission on Monday has given Danish biotech Bavarian Nordic permission to expand the label of its smallpox vaccine to include protection against monkeypox, days after the World ...
WHO Calls Monkeypox A Global Health Emergency
Topline The World Health Organization announced Saturday the spread of monkeypox constitutes a public health emergency of international concern, with “a clear risk of further international spread” as ...
Poor Covid Vaccination Rates—Including Older Adults And Healthcare Workers—Persist In Low-Income Countries, WHO Reports
Topline Only 28% of older adults and 37% of healthcare workers in low-income countries have received a primary course of Covid vaccines, and most have not received booster shots, the World Health Orga...
Covid Sparked Largest Sustained Decline In Global Childhood Vaccinations In 30 Years, WHO Says
Topline The Covid-19 pandemic helped fuel the largest continuous decline in global childhood vaccinations in three decades from 2019 to 2021, according to data released Thursday by the World Health Or...
WHO Says Monkeypox Isn’t A Global Health Emergency Yet—But Raises ‘Serious Concerns’ About Spread
Topline The World Health Organization announced Saturday the spread of monkeypox does not yet constitute a public health emergency, but WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said “seri...
‘Real Risk’ Monkeypox Gaining ‘Foothold’ In Europe Amid Escalating Outbreak, WHO Warns
Topline There is a “real risk” that monkeypox will gain a foothold in Europe, the World Health Organization warned on Wednesday, as it urged governments to take action to curb transmission and engage ...
WHO Will Change Monkeypox Virus Name—Here’s Why Scientists Believe It’s Stigmatizing
Topline The World Health Organization on Tuesday announced it was working with experts to change the name of the monkeypox virus that has spread to more than 20 countries in recent weeks, after a grou...
North Korea Claims Covid Outbreak Is Taking A ‘Favorable Turn’ As WHO Frets About Lack Of Data
Topline North Korea on Wednesday claimed its Covid-19 outbreak was taking a “favorable turn” while still reporting more than 200,000 new suspected cases as the World Health Organization expressed conc...
CDC investigating severe hepatitis in children
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating 109 cases of severe hepatitis in children, including five deaths, to determine a cause, with adenovirus infection as a primary line of i...
Weekly Covid deaths have dropped to lowest since March 2020, WHO says
The World Health Organization on Tuesday said weekly new Covid deaths have fallen to the lowest level since March 2020, but warned a global decline in testing for the virus could hinder its efforts to...
European countries scrap Covid rules despite warnings it’s too soon
A pedestrian zone in Oslo on Feb. 2, 2022, after Norway scrapped most of its Covid restrictions. Terje Pedersen | NTB | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — Several European countries are scrapping Covid regul...
Covid will never become an endemic virus, scientist warns
JaruekChairak | iStock | Getty Images Covid-19 will never become an endemic illness and will always behave like an epidemic virus, an expert in biosecurity has warned. Raina MacIntyre, a professor of ...
How some small businesses have survived the Covid pandemic without them
The storefront of Mark Shriner’s small business, The Coffee House, in downtown Lincoln, Nebraska. Courtesy: Mark Shriner Mark Shriner needed help. It was spring 2020, and his coffee shop in Linc...
More than two-thirds of omicron cases are reinfections, study suggests
Members of the public queue for Covid-19 vaccinations and booster jabs at St Thomas’ Hospital on December 14, 2021 in London, England. Dan Kitwood | Getty Images News | Getty Images Omicron has ...
Covid vaccine skepticism fueling wider anti-vax sentiment, doctors say
Protestors demonstrate against Covid vaccine mandates outside the New York State Capitol in Albany, New York, on January 5, 2022. Mike Segar | Reuters Skepticism toward Covid-19 vaccines could be fuel...
Covid pandemic at a ‘critical juncture,’ WHO’s Tedros says
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a press conference on December 20, 2021 at the WHO headquarters in Geneva Fabrice Coffrini | AFP | Getty Images The Covid-19 pandemic is a...
China’s Censors Target WHO Chief After Comments Criticizing Flagship Zero-Covid Policy
Topline China’s internet censors have targeted the head of the World Health Organization after he questioned the viability of the country’s zero-Covid policy on Tuesday, removing social media posts re...