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Heart Disease-Linked Trans Fats Pass WHO’s Eliminate Date

January 24, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on Heart Disease-Linked Trans Fats Pass WHO’s Eliminate Date

GENEVA, Switzerland, January 24, 2023 (ENS) – Five of every eight people on Earth, five billion people, remain unprotected from harmful trans fats in their food, increasing their risk of [...]

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Monkeypox Declared a Global Public Health Emergency

July 24, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Monkeypox Declared a Global Public Health Emergency

GENEVA, Switzerland, July 24, 2022 (ENS) –  The ongoing multi-country outbreak of monkeypox constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared [...]

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150 Clean Cookstoves Change Lives In Guatemala

April 22, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on 150 Clean Cookstoves Change Lives In Guatemala

By Benjamin Seidman

SANTA CRUZ DEL QUICHE, Guatemala, April 21, 2022 (ENS) – “Before, it wasted a lot of firewood and it’s very expensive. We don’t have jobs to get [...]

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Bird Flu Infects Chickens, Turkeys Worldwide, Millions Killed

April 1, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Bird Flu Infects Chickens, Turkeys Worldwide, Millions Killed

WASHINGTON, DC, April 1, 2022 (ENS) – Highly infectious outbreaks of bird flu in 23 states since January have led to the killing of more than 17 million chickens and [...]

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Animals Can Form Viral Reservoirs Where Covid Variants Breed

March 7, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Animals Can Form Viral Reservoirs Where Covid Variants Breed

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 7, 2022 (ENS) – SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is still spreading among people globally as we enter the third year of the coronavirus pandemic. The [...]

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Calming Anti-Vax Fear: COVID Vaccines Do Not Harm Fertility

January 23, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Calming Anti-Vax Fear: COVID Vaccines Do Not Harm Fertility

BOSTON, Massachusetts, January 23, 2022 (ENS) – A couple who gets vaccinated for COVID-19 need not worry that the vaccine will impair fertility, but males who become infected by the [...]

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Ultrashort-pulse Laser Makes Short Work of Superbugs

November 29, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Ultrashort-pulse Laser Makes Short Work of Superbugs

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, November 29, 2021 (ENS) – Lasers that emit ultrashort pulses of light can kill multidrug-resistant bacteria such as MRSA and E. coli, researchers at Washington University School [...]

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G20 Creates Finance-Health Task Force to Address Pandemics

October 30, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on G20 Creates Finance-Health Task Force to Address Pandemics

ROME, Italy, October 30, 2021 (ENS) – The G20 nations are getting serious about controlling the coronavirus pandemic and any future pandemic that might arise. On Friday in their first [...]

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COVID-19 Infected More Americans in 2020 than Official Tallies Show

September 7, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on COVID-19 Infected More Americans in 2020 than Official Tallies Show

By Dr. Francis Collins, Director, National Institutes of Health, United States

BETHESDA, Maryland, September 7, 2021 (ENS) – At the end of last year, you may recall hearing news reports [...]

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WHO Pandemic, Epidemic Intelligence Hub Opens in Germany

September 2, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on WHO Pandemic, Epidemic Intelligence Hub Opens in Germany

BERLIN, Germany, September 2, 2021 (ENS) – The tools to forecast, detect and assess epidemic and pandemic risks are on offer from a new central intelligence collection and sharing hub [...]

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Bloomberg Healthy Cities Partnership Expands to 70 Cities

August 20, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Bloomberg Healthy Cities Partnership Expands to 70 Cities

NEW YORK, New York, August 20, 2021 (ENS) – Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced a $31 million investment to bring six new cities on three continents into its Partnership for Healthy [...]

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Button-Activated Face Masks Can Diagnose COVID-19

July 3, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Button-Activated Face Masks Can Diagnose COVID-19

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 2, 2021 (ENS) – Scientists have found a way to embed synthetic biology-based sensors into fabrics, creating wearable biosensors that can be programmed to detect pathogens and [...]

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G20 Health Ministers Dissolve Barriers to Sharing Billion+ Vaccine Doses

May 23, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on G20 Health Ministers Dissolve Barriers to Sharing Billion+ Vaccine Doses

ROME, Italy, May 23, 2021 (ENS) – Leaders of the G20 have committed to a series of actions to accelerate the end of the COVID-19 crisis throughout the world and [...]

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Wealthy Nations Asked to Delay Youth Vaccines, Donate to COVAX

May 16, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Wealthy Nations Asked to Delay Youth Vaccines, Donate to COVAX

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 14, 2021 (ENS) – Scanty vaccine supplies in low and lower-middle income countries cannot cover even the innoculation of health care workers, the head of the World [...]

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Tobacco Use Costs the World US$1.4 Trillion Each Year

April 19, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Tobacco Use Costs the World US$1.4 Trillion Each Year

GENEVA, Switzerland, April 20, 2021 (ENS) – Tobacco kills up to half of its users, and the human and economic costs of tobacco are on the rise, the World Health [...]

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Silica-Silver Plastic Film Kills Coronavirus on Contact

February 13, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Silica-Silver Plastic Film Kills Coronavirus on Contact

 

SAO PAULO, Brazil, February 13, 2021 (ENS) – A plastic film that can deactivate 99.99 percent of the virus that causes COVID-19 in 15 minutes has been released by [...]

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Dreams During Pandemic Reveal Fear, Mental Suffering

February 10, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Dreams During Pandemic Reveal Fear, Mental Suffering

 

SAO PAULO, Brazil, February 10, 2021 (ENS) – Amid the isolation imposed by COVID-19, the brain resorts to dreams in an effort to metabolize the intense emotions experienced during [...]

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Living Near Trees Prevents Blood Vessel Damage

January 22, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Living Near Trees Prevents Blood Vessel Damage

 

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, January 21, 2021 (ENS) – Living near an abundance of green plants and trees can offset the negative effects of air pollution on blood vessel health, according [...]

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UK Rolls Out New Vaccine, But Lockdown Ordered

January 4, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on UK Rolls Out New Vaccine, But Lockdown Ordered

 

LONDON, UK, January 4, 2021 (ENS) – The first vaccinations using the Oxford University/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine were given today to members of the British public as the National [...]

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Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Nearly 95% Effective

November 16, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Nearly 95% Effective

 

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, November 16, 2020 (ENS) – Moderna, a Massachusetts biotechnology company pioneering therapeutics and vaccines, today announced that its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, mRNA-1273, has been rated 94.5 percent [...]

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