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Nigeria has Africa's highest malaria death rate - progress is being made, but it's not enough

Malaria is a major public health problem and can be life-threatening. The disease, mostly found in tropical countries, is transmitted to humans by the female Anopheles mosquito. Nearly half of the world’s population is at risk of the disease. In 2021, for instance, around 247 million cases of malaria were…

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Tracking health threats, one sewage sample at a time

Researchers in Virginia Beach, Va., show how they test wastewater for signs of COVID-19, and how they're preparing to look for other health threats.

WEKU

The WHO’s international pandemic treaty: Meaningful public engagement must inform Canada's negotiations

One of the key lessons emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic has been that the failure of countries to sufficiently work together worsened and prolonged this deadly public health emergency.

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Khao San weed peddlers charged over lack of permits

The Public Health Ministry and police pressed charges against five unauthorised cannabis shops on Khao San Road during their raid on April 20.

Bangkok Post

The CDC lacks a rural focus. Researchers hope a newly funded office will help

In 2017, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published multiple reports analyzing health disparities between rural and urban populations.

Tribune News Service

Air pollution in the North 'likely' to ease

Air pollution in the North will ease from Friday to Monday due to rain, while over 2.4 million people in Thailand have been diagnosed with health problems associated with smog, according to the Public Health Ministry.

Bangkok Post

How UK governments from Major to Johnson tried to tackle obesity

Successive administrations have produced hundreds of policies to solve public health threat since 1990

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Hundreds of British people are needlessly going blind. Why?

Patients on long waiting lists are losing their sight unnecessarily, while eye doctors are powerless to help in the face of Tory cuts and neglect, says Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at Edinburgh University

The Guardian - UK

Songkran ushers in new variant

Health authorities have raised concern about the rising Covid-19 caseloads in the wake of the Songkran festival, though they insist the situation remains under control.

Bangkok Post

Pharma woes: Dinesh Thakur and Prashant Reddy on India’s regulatory shortcomings

In their 2022 book The Truth Pill, lawyer Prashant Reddy T and public health activist Dinesh S Thakur explored various aspects of modern pharmacology and pharmaceutical practices in India.

Newslaundry

Lyssavirus warning after sick bat found on Gold Coast

Members of the public have been warned to never handle bats after a flying fox was found with the fatal Australian bat lyssavirus on the Gold Coast.

AAP

Palang Pracharath touts culture, Bhumjaithai eyes volunteers

The ruling Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) has pledged to intensify the promotion of soft power as another key driver of the economy if the party wins the general election, set to take place on May 14 this year.

Bangkok Post

Predicting epidemics isn't easy. We've created a global dataset to help

The world has recently seen a number of high-profile cross-border disease outbreaks and pandemics. The COVID pandemic and multi-country Mpox (monkeypox) outbreaks are just two examples.

The Conversation

Prognosis uncertain for Arwady post with Johnson — but city health chief ‘looking forward to the conversation’

Dr. Allison Arwady told the Sun-Times, “I am hopeful to stay on in my role,” but Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson has voiced concerns about the way Chicago Public Schools were reopened during the COVID pandemic.

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Criminalising suicide only makes it worse

If the aim of criminalising suicide attempts is to deter people from ending their lives and protect the vulnerable, it's failed.

Bangkok Post

Web-based app to track residents' health status

The Ministry of Public Health has developed an application to monitor the health of residents in tambon Na Phra Lan, in Saraburi's Chalerm Prakiat district, due to growing concerns over air pollution from the area's limestone mines and concrete factories.

Bangkok Post

DDC to modify jab policy to cope with rising cases

The Ministry of Public Health is modifying its Covid-19 vaccination strategy to handle the sudden increase in infections amplified by Songkran festivities.

Asharq Al-Awsat

China’s Economy Expected to Rebound as Zero-Covid Era Fades

China is expected to announce an economic rebound on Tuesday, when Beijing releases its first quarterly GDP figures since abolishing growth-sapping Covid restrictions late last year. The Asian giant's virus containment policy -- an unstinting regime of strict quarantines, mass testing and travel curbs -- strongly constrained normal economic activity…

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5 state public health workers kept ‘yearbook’ that mocked photos of medical marijuana applicants, IG report says

Five state public health employees maintained a “yearbook” that included photos of medical marijuana applicants and mocking captions such as “Happy Holidaze” and “Why the long face?,” according to a report released Friday by the state’s executive inspector general’s office.

The Guardian - UK

One in five UK children aged three and four have mobile phone, study finds

Rise in phone use by young raises public health question but experts caution against ‘screen time’ fears

Tribune News Service

What does the end of the public health emergency for COVID really mean?

ATLANTA -- When does the COVID-19 pandemic end?

Fortune

America’s ‘disease burden’ is getting heavier by the day–and it’s unevenly distributed across states

The U.S. could reduce its disease burden by as much as 30% by applying known practices and interventions.

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Gov. Maura Healey (D) ends COVID-19 public health emergency and vaccine mandate in Massachusetts (2023)

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) on March 15, 2023, announced that Massachusetts’ COVID-19 state public health emergency will end on May 11, 2023, to align with the end of the federal public health emergency. The governor also announced that on May 11 she plans to rescind state Executive Order 595,…

Bangkok Post

Hospital ready for evacuation due to wildfire

CHIANG RAI: Officials at Maechan Hospital in the Mae Chan district of this northern border province were prepared to evacuate both staff and patients, although a nearby wildfire had been brought under control on Thursday, the Public Health Ministry reported.

ABC News

Vaping inquiry in Queensland hears call for ban on disposable products, nicotine concerns

Public health officials tell a parliamentary inquiry into vaping in Queensland more than 80 per cent of disposable vapes seized from stores on the Gold Coast illegally contain nicotine.

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