Health and Climate Change
Climate change: a global health emergencyAs the global climate crisis escalates, its devastating impacts on human health and well-being will...
Year: 2024
N.B. news: Self-booking X-ray appointments now available through Horizon Health
Whether you are in the far southwest corner of the province in St. Stephen, N.B., or on the north...
Obesity and overweight
Key factsIn 2022, 1 in 8 people in the world were living with obesity. Worldwide adult obesity has more than...
World-first trial of gene therapy to cure children with rare type of genetic deafness begins
Published: 11 October 2023Children born with hearing loss due to the genetic condition auditory neuropathy will be given a pioneering...
Tackle global health issues with a degree from the Institute of Tropical Medicine
Healthcare issues span worldwide. Whether it’s tropical diseases or inadequate access to treatments, countries grapple with their share of problems....
Gene therapy allows a deaf child to hear for the first time
Leggi in italiano Children’s hospital of Philadelphia performed a gene therapy procedure to treat genetic hearing loss thanks to a...
The war in Gaza is creating a health crisis that will span decades
Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies in RafahIsmael Mohamad/UPI/Shutterstock The...
University of Sheffield spinout company to pioneer novel therapies for genetic neurological diseases | News
BlackfinBio has raised £2.75 million seed investment to advance revolutionary treatments for Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP). BlackfinBio has raised £2.75...
Lessons from COVID-19: Managing borders in the next global public-health crisis – World
Attachments By Meghan Benton and Lawrence Huang Executive Summary The world has moved on from the COVID-19 pandemic, but it...
