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Mashup Score: 39Why your doctor should care about social justice - 6 hour(s) ago
In Zimbabwe in the 1980s, Mary Bassett witnessed the AIDS epidemic firsthand, and she helped set up a clinic to treat and educate local people about the deadly virus. But looking back, she regrets not sounding the alarm for the real problem: the structural inequities embedded in the world’s political and economic organizations, inequities that make marginalized people more vulnerable. These same structural problems exist in the United States today, and as New York City’s Health Commissioner, Bassett is using every chance she has to rally support for health equity and speak out against racism. “We don’t have to have all the answers to call for change,” she says. “We just need courage.”
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Mashup Score: 70
A new group of COVID variants, dubbed “FLiRT,” have arrived and are surging to dominance in the United States. Here, experts break down whether you can expect a COVID wave this summer.
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Mashup Score: 7Speeding the Diagnosis of Rare Genetic Disorders with the Help of Artificial Intelligence - 4 day(s) ago
Millions of children around the world are born each year with severe genetic disorders. Many of these are Mendelian disorders, which are rare genetic conditions caused by mutations in a single gene…
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Mashup Score: 10
Experts are closely watching KP.2, now the leading variant.
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Mashup Score: 64There might be stockpiles, but making an effective bird flu vaccine won’t be quick or easy - 6 day(s) ago
Even if current vaccines are effective against HN51, existing supplies would barely be enough to cover healthcare workers
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The payment system amounted to one of the most forceful actions taken so far by agriculture officials who have raced to keep up with the spread of the virus among dairy cows.
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Mashup Score: 8
The changing spread patterns of infectious diseases in India underscore the impact of agricultural expansion and deforestation on their transmission.
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Mashup Score: 7
The payment system amounted to one of the most forceful actions taken so far by agriculture officials who have raced to keep up with the spread of the virus among dairy cows.
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Mashup Score: 6Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report - 16 day(s) ago
Learn more about the weekly influenza surveillance report (FluView) prepared by the Influenza Division.
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Mashup Score: 19Bird flu virus circulated in cows for four months before outbreak confirmed by USDA, analysis shows - 17 day(s) ago
A USDA analysis shows the spread in cattle started from a single spillover event from birds in the Texas panhandle that may have happened in early December.
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