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The Lancet6d
Metrics for diplomats: is mortality from non-communicable diseases increasing or decreasing?
Negotiations are ongoing in New York to agree the latest UN political declaration on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and ...
Canada faces growing threat from communicable diseases and misinformation
Canada must address the growing crisis of communicable diseases that has occurred in tandem with a rise in misinformation that threatens our health systems, argue authors in an editorial in CMAJ.
Canadian Medical Association Journal4d
Tackling communicable disease surveillance and misinformation in Canada
See related article at A crisis of communicable diseases is unfolding in North America, just as Canada’s health systems’ responses are being hampered by the dismantling of public health and research ...
Ottawa Citizen on MSN5d
Canada faces crisis in communicable disease, can no longer rely on U.S. for data: CMAJ
The Canadian Medical Association Journal has issued an urgent call for Canada to strengthen systems of tracking and ...
The Lancet9d
From zero to impact: political leadership key to advancing the non-communicable disease response
Level Meeting (HLM) on Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NCDs), which will be held on Sept 25, 2025 in New York, NY ...
Medical News Today17d
Communicable diseases: Types, symptoms, prevention, and treatment - Medical News Today
People sometimes refer to communicable diseases as “infectious” or “transmissible” diseases. Pathogens, including bacteria , viruses , fungi , and protozoa, cause communicable diseases.
COVID data transformed disease projection models—researchers explain what's next
Scientists sometimes compare predicting the course of epidemics to forecasting the weather. But there's a major ...
Forbes1mon
Improving Outcomes For Kids With Non-Communicable Diseases In Zimbabwe
Childhood non-communicable diseases too often go undetected and untreated . Kelly sits up from her bed at Kadoma General Hospital in southwest Zimbabwe and greets her visitors with a broad smile.
Politifact10mon
Communicable disease rates in Springfield, Ohio, have not ‘skyrocketed,’ despite JD Vance’s claim - PolitiFact
Communicable diseases in Clark County spiked from 2020 to 2022, reaching 13,700 cases per 100,000 people, before dropping to 3,723 cases in 2023. That large increase was caused by COVID-19, ...
Saint Louis University1mon
Division of Infectious Diseases, Allergy and Immunology
Residents in infectious diseases can combine their clinical training with research training in microbiology, biochemistry and molecular biology or cell and molecular biology. Current research projects ...
Opinion
The BMJ5dOpinion
The United Nations political declaration on non-communicable diseases and mental health needs a just and action driven approach
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health conditions are responsible for more than 43 million deaths annually. It is critical that the upcoming United Nations general assembly high level ...
BMJ6mon
Non-communicable disease risk factors: a call for primary care clinicians to act and to refer. Brief intervention, not silent abdication.
In a single century, preventable chronic disease has gone from marginal killer to major cause of global mortality. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular disease, cancers, chronic ...