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WHO Appoints Jeremy Farrar as Chief Scientist

The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that Jeremy Farrar will become its new chief scientist as the agency prepares to cope with post-pandemic health challenges. He will join the WHO in the second quarter of 2023, replacing Soumya Swaminathan, who departed in November ahead of a broader shakeup at…

Asharq Al-Awsat

A taste of the nomadic life leaves a legacy of strokes in Kazakhstan

With high salt levels in traditional dishes linked to disease, health campaigners are urging change, from product labels to suggestions for alternative seasoning

The Guardian - UK

WHO, ECDC urge caution against severe strep A infections in Europe

Europe should be vigilant against severe infections caused by a bacteria called group A Streptococcus in children below 10 years, the World Health Organization (WHO) and European Centre for Disease Control Prevention (ECDC) said on Monday.

Reuters

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Why does India still use and trade asbestos?

Russia is among the nations that supply India with asbestos, a substance banned in several countries.

Al Jazeera

WHO warns of surging antibiotic resistance from bacterial infections

A new World Health Organization survey of over 80 countries finds heightened resistance to antibiotics from common and life-threatening infections.

ABC News

Now's the time for Ella's law to stop children choking on killer air and toxic fumes

Air pollution kills more than four million a year across the globe and around 99% of the world’s population live in areas failing to meet WHO guidelines for air pollution

Daily Mirror

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.

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Some bloodstream infection bacteria grew resistant to last-resort drugs in 2020 - WHO

Increased drug resistance in bacteria causing bloodstream infections, including against last-resort antibiotics, was seen in the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, a World Health Organization report based on data from 87 countries in 2020 showed.

Reuters

COVID disruptions led to 63,000 more malaria deaths: WHO

There were also 13 million additional infections globally over two years, according to World Malaria Report.

Al Jazeera

Malaria deaths dip in 2021 after rising in first year of COVID, says WHO

Reuters

WHO: COVID disruption resulted in 63,000 more malaria deaths

The coronavirus pandemic interrupted efforts to control malaria, resulting in 63,000 additional deaths and 13 million more infections

The Independent UK

New research identifies some food products aimed at toddlers are failing WHO guidelines around sugar content

Out of more than 70 ready-made food products for toddlers, more than 75 per cent fail to meet the proposed guidelines for sugar set out by the World Health Organization (WHO), soon-to-be-published research for the Obesity Policy Coalition has found.

ABC News

The price of ‘sugar free’: are sweeteners as harmless as we thought?

The long read: We know we need to cut down on sugar. But replacing it with artificial compounds isn’t necessarily the answer

The Guardian - UK

Emerging from the COVID pandemic, again

For much of the world, 2022 marked the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Monkeypox gets a rebrand as mpox

The thorny cultural politics of naming a virus loomed large for the global public health agency

The Conversation

Why Big Tobacco's attempts to rehabilitate its image are so dangerous

In September, Imperial Tobacco Canada, the Canadian subsidiary of British American Tobacco, was awarded the “Great Place to Work” certification, one of the leading authorities on workplace culture.

Fortune

China dumping its draconian ‘zero COVID’ policy could come at the huge cost of rampant infections: 'This will spread like wildfire'

The end result could be “hundreds of millions” of infected Chinese, Dr. Ali Mokdad, a professor at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, said.

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With one dose, new drug may cure sleeping sickness. Could it also wipe it out?

This often fatal disease found in many African countries is painful and lengthy to treat. But a single oral dose proved incredibly effective in a clinical trial, raising hopes of eradication.

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Drop in COVID Alertness Could Create Deadly New Variant, Warns WHO

Lapses in strategies to tackle COVID-19 this year continue to create the perfect conditions for a deadly new variant to emerge, as parts of China witness a rise in infections, the head of the World Health Organization said on Friday. The comments by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus mark a…

Reuters

WHO says still doesn't have full access to Ethiopia's Tigray

The World Health Organization said on Friday it still does not have the unfettered access to Ethiopia's northern Tigray region stipulated in a truce signed a month ago.

The Independent UK

WHO pleased to see China ease harsh zero COVID policies

A top official at the World Health Organization said the U_N_ agency was “pleased” to see China loosening some of its coronavirus restrictions, saying “it’s really important that governments listen to their people when the people are in pain.”

Reuters

WHO chief Tedros selects new leadership team, document shows

The World Health Organization's chief has provisionally appointed several new top managers, a document showed on Friday, as he seeks to cope with growing post-pandemic health challenges and respond to donor pressure for efficiency.

The Guardian - UK

Indonesian families sue government over deaths from syrup medicines

Since August, 199 people have died of acute kidney injury, prompting an inquiry and ban on some medicines

Salon

Twitter purges left-wing users: report

"Musk appears to have outsourced decisions about who to ban from Twitter to the platform's right-wing extremists"

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The G20 pandemic fund – and how Indonesia plays a key role in it

One major achievement during this year’s G20 Summit was the establishment of a global fund dedicated to the prevention and containment of future pandemic threats.

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