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Pinprick blood test could detect disease 10 years before symptoms appear, study finds | Medical research | The Guardian
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Pinprick blood test could detect disease 10 years before symptoms appear, study finds
Molecular profiles will give detailed snapshot of person’s physiology and predict diseases from diabetes to cancer and dementia
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November 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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WHO position paper on varicella vaccines – November 2025
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November 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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WHO recommendations on care for women with diabetes during pregnancy
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WHO recommendations on care for women with diabetes during pregnancy
WHO maternal and perinatal health guidelines are relevant to those providing care and support during pregnancy, labour, childbirth and postnatal periods, in any health-care setting.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Mental Health Promotion and Prevention
Best Practices in Public Health - OECD
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Mental Health Promotion and Prevention
Mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety impose a significant burden on individuals and societies. Mild-to-moderate depressive symptoms affect one in five adults across OECD and EU27 co...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Health at a Glance provides a comprehensive set of indicators on population health and health system performance across OECD Members
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Health at a Glance 2025
Health at a Glance provides a comprehensive set of indicators on population health and health system performance across OECD Members, Key Partners and accession candidate countries. These indicators c...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Responsible Use Of AI In Evidence SynthEsis (RAISE): Recommendations And Guidance
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November 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Shingles Vaccine May Help Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease
A new study has identified three existing medications that could be repurposed to treat or prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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WHO Health Emergencies EPI-WIN Webinar:
Defining cases of meningococcal disease: a public health tool for outbreak prevention & control
13:00 – 14:00 CET (Geneva)
Wednesday, 26 November 2025
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November 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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These five cities help explain why homicide rates are down across the U.S. - Washington Post
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These five cities help explain why homicide rates are down across the U.S.
Homicides are down nearly 20 percent this year in 52 of America’s largest cities, a decline that spans both red states and blue states.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Violence against women prevalence estimates, 2023

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November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Global, regional, and national burden of headache disorders, 1990–2023
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Global, regional, and national burden of headache disorders, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023
Headache disorders, in particular migraine, continue to be a major global health challenge, emphasising the need for effective management and prevention strategies. Much headache-attributed burden cou...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Lung Cancer Deaths Prevented and Life-Years Gained From Lung Cancer Screening
This study examines the current national prevalence of up-to-date lung cancer screening and estimates lung cancer deaths prevented and life-years gained from screening.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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WHO Health Emergencies EPI-WIN Webinar:
Attributes of pathogen genomic data platforms supporting timely and equitable sharing

Monday, 24 November 2025, 13:00 – 14:00 CET (Geneva)

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November 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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WHO has published the 2nd edition of the Development of medical devices policies
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November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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The next pandemic is already here: Antimicrobial resistance is upending a century of achievements in global health
Almost a century ago, the discovery of antimicrobials changed the course of modern medicine. We saw previously fatal infections—pneumonia, sepsis, tuberculosis—become treatable, and surgeries become s...
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November 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations.
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Personalized Cancer Vaccines Are Almost Here—But Federal Funding Cuts Could Derail Them
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
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November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Lifetime toll: 840 million women faced partner or sexual violence
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Lifetime toll: 840 million women faced partner or sexual violence
Violence against women remains one of the world’s most persistent and under-addressed human rights crises, with very little progress in two decades, according to a landmark report released today by th...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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New TB drugs reduce treatment time for world’s deadliest infectious disease
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November 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Civilisations: Rise and Fall - Everything you need to know about the landmark new four-part series from BBC Arts
Explore the ancient worlds of Rome, Egypt, the Aztecs and Japan... and what led to their fall
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November 19, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Generative AI and the changing dynamics of clinical consultations | The BMJ
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November 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (USAAW) Toolkit | Antimicrobial Resistance | CDC
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U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (USAAW) Toolkit
Key messages, graphics, and toolkits for U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Discovery of Late Intermediates in Methylenomycin Biosynthesis Active against Drug-Resistant Gram-Positive Bacterial Pathogens
The methylenomycins are highly functionalized cyclopentanone antibiotics produced by Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). A biosynthetic pathway to the methylenomycins has been proposed based on sequence an...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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How a Mixture of Experts Helps AI open.substack.com/pub/aipublic...
How a Mixture of Experts Helps AI
What this AI architecture could mean for future public health systems
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November 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Ethiopia faces its first Marburg outbreak, which has proved deadly
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November 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Global, regional, and national burden of headache disorders, 1990–2023
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Global, regional, and national burden of headache disorders, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023
Headache disorders, in particular migraine, continue to be a major global health challenge, emphasising the need for effective management and prevention strategies. Much headache-attributed burden could be averted or eliminated by avoiding overuse of medication (including over-the-counter medication), underscoring the importance of public education.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM