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Mpox, AIDS and COVID-19 show the challenges of targeting public health messaging to specific groups without causing stigma

During infectious disease outbreaks, clinicians and public health officials are tasked with providing accurate guidance for the public on how to stay safe and protect themselves and their loved ones. However, sensationalized media coverage can distort how the public perceives new emerging infections, including where they come from and how…

The Conversation

Tips to keep you and your family safe from the tripledemic during the holidays

NPR asked a handful of public health experts how to approach a holiday season with not one but three respiratory pathogens helping fill hospitals: COVID, the flu and RSV.

WEKU

Medical tourism eyed as cash cow

The Public Health Ministry has launched its "Health for Wealth" concept to build the country's economic strength through the promotion of medical tourism.

Bangkok Post

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Edinburgh Royal Infirmary A&E records one of the worst waiting times in Scotland

New figures from Public Health Scotland reveals that only 38.5 per cent of those arriving at the Infirmary’s A&E department were treated within four hours - one of the lowest in Scotland.

Edinburgh Live

Stormont inquiry launched amid high levels of problem gambling

"This approach has been used for other addictions, including food addiction, smoking and alcoholism"

Belfast Live

After changes to California's prenatal testing program, women report long delays for results

LOS ANGELES — On Nov. 1, Kate Manriquez, whose first child is due in May, did what many women do a couple months into their pregnancies: She gave a blood sample at her doctor's office for a genetic test meant to help detect birth defects. More than a month later,…

Los Angeles Times

Dr Fauci hits back at Musk claims he should be prosecuted: ‘Cesspool of misinformation’

“I don’t pay attention to that,” Dr Fauci says of Mr Musk’s recent remarks

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Step A: Warning issued to Scottish parents buying home test kits as infections rise

Scotland recorded 25 cases of Strep A in November as the illness spreads. Sadly as 16 children has died in the UK, parents are rushing online to buy home-test kits.

Edinburgh Live

California official attacked with racial slur at meeting where racism is declared public health crisis

Audience member yelled ‘go back to China’ at Orange County Health Care Agency Director Clayton Chau

The Independent UK

Concerns over big rise in delayed discharge figures across Ayrshire

Figures released by Public Health Scotland about the number of bed days occupied by delayed discharge continues to paint a bleak picture in the region.

Daily Record

Fauci says Covid response was hampered by ‘disinformation and political ideology’ in farewell essay

Public health expert often had to battle Trump administration on basics of pandemic response

The Independent UK

Elon Musk, who predicted the Covid pandemic would end in April 2020, suggests Fauci should be prosecuted

The world’s wealthiest person endorses right-wing attacks against the public health official in a tweet that also appears to mock nonbinary and transgender people

The Independent UK

Beyond vaccine hesitancy: Understanding systemic barriers to getting vaccinated

The term “vaccine hesitancy” was in wide use years before the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. The term focuses on individual-level attitudes toward vaccines. Throughout the pandemic, much popular and scholarly discussion about COVID-19 transmission focused on individual-level decisions, making it easy to blame the unvaccinated.

The Conversation

Authorities are urging indoor masking in major cities as the 'tripledemic' rages

The CDC is advising people to practice indoor masking in nearly a tenth of U.S. counties, as three highly contagious respiratory viruses sweep the country.

WEKU

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Tribune News Service

Paxlovid has been free so far. Next year, sticker shock awaits

Nearly 6 million Americans have taken Paxlovid for free, courtesy of the federal government. The Pfizer pill has helped prevent many people infected with COVID-19 from being hospitalized or dying, and it may even reduce the risk of developing long COVID. But the government plans to stop footing the bill…

Chicago Tribune

In Illinois, holiday season bringing another rise in COVID-19

CHICAGO — In what’s become an unwelcome tradition over the past two years, coronavirus cases and hospitalizations have been on the rise again in Illinois amid the holiday season.

Reason

Oregon's Anti-Vape Laws Will Put This Deaf Immigrant's Hookah Shop Out of Business

You can smoke all the pot you want, but flavored tobacco or nicotine is soon to be illegal.

Bangkok Post

Uptick sees boosters called for

The Public Health Ministry is urging people to get boosters within four months of receiving their last Covid-19 vaccination as the number of infections is back on the rise.

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Tributes to Northumberland County Council's departing public health boss who steered county through Covid

Liz Morgan has been with the council for six years

Salon

DeSantis' pitch: Accept mass death

Ron DeSantis hopes to beat Trump by running as the manly man who rejects vaccines and welcomes mass death

Belfast Live

Scarlet fever cases confirmed at Derry primary school as Public Health Agency issue statement

There has been a rise in cases

Glasgow Live

NHS advice to Glasgow parents as Strep A UK death toll rises to 15

Local health chiefs would not confirm if there are any Strep A cases in schools and nurseries in Glasgow, but Public Health Scotland say infections have been rising since October.

Wales Online

Mum who had to take daughter to hospital with scarlet fever calls for schools to shut early

Wales as nation has higher infection rate than any part of England

The Guardian - UK

Racism poses public health threat to millions worldwide, finds report

Discrimination has ‘profound’ effect on health of disadvantaged people, says Lancet review

Bangkok Post

Anutin denies shifting blame

Public Health Minister and Bhumjaithai Party leader Anutin Charnvirakul on Thursday denied attempting to turn the tables on fellow coalition member Democrat Party over matters related to the control of cannabis.

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