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Cuts to cost of dwarfism drug to save families millions

A new drug to treat dwarfism has been slashed from $330,000 a year to $30 a script, enabling thousands of families to receive treatment at home.

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Health bosses warn world needs to prepare for 'disease deadlier than Covid'

The Director General of the World Health Association has said that the world needs to learn from the pandemic in order to prepare for future ones.

Daily Record

Experts share the most common symptom of Covid - and it is not losing your ability to taste

The most common non-respiratory symptom of Covid across all strains has been revealed by a new stud

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Supermarkets should 'clear vapes from view' after lead discovery

RETAILERS must crack down on the sale and placement of vapes after it was discovered children could be inhaling twice the daily safe amount of lead…

The National (Scotland)

Schoolgirl screams 'I don't want to die' after hospital turns away because of her age

The schoolgirl, who had taken an overdose of tablets, screamed 'I don't want to die' as she was turned away from a children's hospital due to her age - leaving her mum 'disgusted'

Daily Mirror

Medics warn 'world is not prepared' as patients infected with highly contagious disease

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), confirmed the unnamed patients in the United States, aged 28 and 47, have been struck down with the first known cases of the drug-resistant ringworm, also known as tinea.

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First shot to prevent RSV in infants moves one step closer to FDA approval

Respiratory illness kills hundreds of babies per year

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The CDC is worried about a mpox rebound and urges people to get vaccinated

A cluster of mpox cases in the Chicago area has sparked fears of a summer wave. Health officials are pointing to new research showing the vaccine is effective and hoping people take notice.

WEKU

WHO recommends new COVID shots should target only XBB variants

A World Health Organization (WHO) advisory group on Thursday recommended that this year's COVID-19 booster shots be updated to target one of the currently dominant XBB variants.

Reuters

The CDC has stopped tracking COVID cases

Some experts worry this move will hinder public health in the event of a future infectious mutation

Salon

Preventing millions of hepatitis deaths is a ‘thundering moral imperative’

By 2040 the disease could kill more people each year than malaria, TB and Aids combined – despite the cost of treatment being ‘less than dinner for two’

The Guardian - UK

Up to one in three with rheumatoid arthritis ‘at risk of long-term opioid use’

A news study warns that people diagnosed with rheumatic and musculoskeletal conditions are ‘vulnerable’ to long-term use of strong pain relief.

The Independent UK

Brit dad died after being 'assaulted' by Magaluf bouncers and injected with Fentanyl

Tobias White-Sansom fell into an coma and died in hospital on July 31 last year - just five days after the incident on the Magaluf strip.

Daily Record

Brazil's Bolsonaro faces questioning in fake vaccine card investigation

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro is facing questions at the Federal Police headquarters in Brasilia as part of an investigation into alleged falsification of COVID-19 vaccine cards

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Is it pink eye, allergies…or COVID?

Is it pink eye, allergies… or COVID?

Evening Standard

London children to be offered MMR and polio vaccines through primary schools

Parents urged to check children’s vaccination status amid rise in measles cases

The Independent UK

‘Prognosis very poor’ after Sheku Bayoh restrained without medic, probe told

Professor Michael Eddleston, 54, was giving evidence to the inquiry into the death of the 31-year-old in May 2015.

Daily Mirror

Two women infected with first cases of highly contagious drug-resistant fungal disease

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the US reported at least two women aged 28 and 47 have been struck down with the first known cases of the drug-resistant ringworm known as tinea

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Why the US may never recover from COVID

WHO says the pandemic is over. A disaster resilience professor says otherwise

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French healthcare staff who refused Covid jab allowed back to work

Healthcare workers in France suspended after refusing to get vaccinated against Covid-19 were allowed back to work on Monday following a government decree over the weekend.

The Independent UK

Where you live makes you more susceptible to long Covid

People working in healthcare and education and in the poorest areas more likely to get long Covid

The Independent UK

Long Covid risk higher for people living in poorest areas

People working in healthcare and education and in the poorest areas more likely to get long Covid

Daily Mirror

Mum's horror as cannabis 'cowboys' use name to flog CBD oil after she won fight for son

Hannah Deacon helped change the law when she secured cannabis prescription for her severely ill son Alfie Dingley. But now, a "cowboy" CBD firm has been using her name to flog its product

The Hindu

Long COVID: a lingering problem requiring greater attention

Long COVID is a lingering problem that requires greater attention

The Independent UK

Arcturus: What we know about the new Covid variant and its symptoms

XBB.1.16 strain detected in 34 countries so far and is driving up infection rate in India

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