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• COVID-19 increases the risk of pregnancy complications

  By thespecimennews on February 8, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  “The findings underscore the need for women of child-bearing age and pregnant individuals to be vaccinated and to take other precautions against becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2,” said Diana Bianchi, M.D., director of NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD),

• Suicides by drug overdose increased among young people, elderly people, and Black women, despite overall downward trend

  By thespecimennews on February 3, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Nearly 92,000 people died from drug overdoses overall in the U.S. in 2020, representing the largest increase ever recorded in a calendar year and reflects a nearly five-fold increase in the rate of overdose deaths since 1999.

• NIH launches first phase of $9.8 million competition to accelerate development of neuromodulation therapies

  By thespecimennews on January 20, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  The nervous system plays a role in all bodily functions, so neuromodulation therapies have the potential to treat a variety of health conditions, ranging from gastrointestinal disorders to heart failure, through targeted regulation of the nerves that connect with all parts of the body.

• Offering buprenorphine medication to people with opioid use disorder in jail may reduce rearrest and reconviction

  By thespecimennews on January 20, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  A study conducted in two rural Massachusetts jails found that people with opioid use disorder who were incarcerated and received a medication approved to treat opioid use disorder, known as buprenorphine, were less likely to face rearrest and reconviction after… Read More ›

• Higher olive oil consumption linked with lower risk of premature death

  By thespecimennews on January 14, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Olive oil consumption has been linked to lower cardiovascular disease risk, but its association with premature death was unclear

• Global growth to slow through 2023 due to continued COVID-19 flare-ups – New Global Economic Prospects report

  By thespecimennews on January 14, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Growth in advanced economies is forecast to decelerate from 5 percent in 2021 to 3.8 percent in 2022 as the unwinding of pent-up demand only partly cushions a pronounced withdrawal of fiscal policy support.

• Africa Calls for Urgent New Public Health Order

  By thespecimennews on January 5, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  The first international Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA 2021), hosted by the African Union (AU) and Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) in December concluded its main programme following three days of sessions focused on… Read More ›

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