Mpox incidence and deaths are increasing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as the central African […]
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Philippines Reports First Mpox Case This Year
The Philippines reported its first case of mpox this year on Monday, but the health authorities is still […]
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What We Know About The New Mpox Outbreak
The World Health Organization declared an mpox outbreak in Africa an emergency this week, and the European Centre […]
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Big Pharma Push Back On First Medicare Drug Price Cuts
Major pharmaceutical corporations reacted angrily to a landmark agreement announced Thursday to reduce the costs of ten critical […]
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WHO Calls For Cholera Vaccine Production Boost
On Thursday, the president of the World Health Organization asked for greater manufacture of cholera vaccinations, citing a […]
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WHO Declares Mpox A Global Public Health Emergency
The World Health Organisation on Wednesday declared the mpox surge in Africa was now a global public health […]
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Africa’s CDC Declares Mpox A Public Health Emergency
The African Union’s health watchdog on Tuesday declared a public health emergency over the growing mpox outbreak on […]
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Africa CDC Likely To Declare Mpox Health Emergency, Says Director
The African Union’s health watchdog said Thursday that it was “likely” to declare a public health emergency next […]
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Atlanta Girl, 7, Donates Summer Business Earnings to Her Birth Hospital
Julia Scott, a seven-year-old entrepreneur, spent the summer running a snow cone business in her Atlanta neighborhood. She […]
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Miracle Baby From Alabama Turns One Year Old After Being Given a 1% Chance to Live
Tripp Abney, an African-American infant born at 21 weeks in Chickasaw, Alabama, just celebrated his first birthday. He […]
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Black Woman With Sickle Cell Disease Defies Odds, Turns 80 Years Old
Meet Patricia McGill, an African American woman from Houston, Texas, who recently celebrated her 80th birthday despite living […]
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Gambian Lawmakers Uphold Ban On Female Genital Mutilation
Gambian lawmakers voted on Monday to uphold a 2015 ban on female genital mutilation, rejecting a controversial bill […]
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Decade Since Ebola, Sierra Leone Fights Another Deadly Fever
Ecologist James Koninga searches through the darkness of a small mud and thatch home in eastern Sierra Leone […]
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Woman Becomes a Nurse at the Same Hospital Where She Was Once a Janitor
Jaines Andrades, an African American woman from Springfield, Massachusetts, who used to work as a janitor at Baystate […]
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Sweden Sees Rise In Diabetes Among Young Children — Report
Diabetes diagnoses among children under the age of five have increased in recent years, according to a foundation […]
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Tattoos Could Trigger Rare Form Of Cancer, New Study Finds
Having a tattoo could increase your risk of developing a rare type of cancer by 21%, a new […]
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Georgia Grandmother Makes History, Becomes Registered Nurse at 69
Loretta Mack, a 69-year-old African American grandmother from Albany, Georgia, has fulfilled her lifetime aim of becoming a […]
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Meet Andrea Dalzell, the Black Woman Making History as a Nurse Despite Being Wheelchair Bound
Meet Andrea Dalzell, an African American lady from New York City who became a Registered Nurse despite having […]
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Syrian First Lady Asma al-Assad Diagnosed With Leukaemia
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s wife, Asma, who recovered from breast cancer in 2019, has been diagnosed with leukemia, […]
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‘It Was God’ – Boby, 4, Miraculously Survives 19-hour Cardiac Arrest
Cartier McDaniel, a four-year-old from Denver, amazingly lived after his heart stopped for 19 hours. After becoming ill […]
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New Jersey Mom Births in Maserati, Then Defends Dissertation from Hospital Hours Later
Tamiah Brevard-Rodriguez welcomed her son in the passenger seat of her wife’s Maserati before smoothly defending her doctoral […]