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Measles Books Summer Holiday, Skips Vaccination Check
Measles outbreaks could grow with summer travel, because infectious disease has again refused to respect the family's shared calendar.
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Health Finance Finds Closing Everything Is Cheaper
Health financing faces aid cuts, closed clinics and unpaid workers while conference language searches bravely for a more positive noun.
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Tobacco Marketing Adds Mango, Consequences Await Review
Tobacco marketing has put bright colours and thousands of flavours around nicotine because apparently poison was losing the youth demographic.
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World Prematurity Day Gets Calendar Slot, Care Seeks Funding
World Prematurity Day has joined the official WHO calendar after global health diplomacy successfully found an empty square on 17 November.
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H5N1 Cases Make WHO Spreadsheet Least Celebratory Chart
H5N1 cases remain under monthly WHO surveillance, creating the rare spreadsheet where every responsible person wants fewer new rows.
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Africa Health Partnership Renewed Before Next Crisis Checks Cupboard
An Africa health partnership has been renewed to strengthen systems and emergency readiness before the next crisis sends its own invitation.
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Digital Health Strategy Given Two More Years To Find Password
The digital health strategy will run until 2027, allowing global healthcare another two years to remember which portal contains the patient.
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Emergency Care Gets $12.5m And An Appropriately Urgent Name
Emergency care will receive $12.5 million for training across 400 hospitals, giving urgency both funding and a refreshingly literal programme.
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Papua New Guinea Evicts Trachoma After Thorough Inspection
Papua New Guinea has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem after surveillance proved the disease had lost its dreadful foothold.
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World Health Assembly Prescribes Nine Days Of Geneva
The World Health Assembly will meet for nine days in Geneva, because the planet's medical problems have declined to fit a conference timetable.
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International Nurses Day Thanks Staff Already Doing Everyone’s Work
International Nurses Day celebrates highly skilled staff who lead care, solve problems and know which cupboard contains the thing everyone needs.
Health & Lifestyle
Spring Covid Vaccination Reminds Sunshine It Is Not A Doctor
The spring Covid vaccination campaign has warned eligible people that warm weather cannot provide immunity, despite the sun’s confident bedside manner.