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CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
This report describes a dengue outbreak in America Samoa that resulted in 1,048 confirmed cases and 371 hospitalizations during June 2025-August 2026.
CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
This report describes GLP-1 and compounded GLP-1 use among adults during 2025.
gov.uk: Health and Social Care
Minister McGovern delivered the keynote speech at the National Children's and Adult's Social Services conference in Liverpool
gov.uk: UK Health Security Agency
National surveillance data shows antibiotic resistance continues to worsen.
gov.uk: UK Health Security Agency
Eligible 18 and 19 year-olds, as well as older first year students at university, have until New Year's Eve to get their first dose.
FDA MedWatch Safety Alerts
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – November 12, 2026 - Tampa, Florida. Game Changer Products LLC is voluntarily recalling all lots of 10 Day Forecast capsules to the…
gov.uk: Health and Social Care
People receiving care at home are set to benefit from more personalised support from familiar carers under neighbourhood commissioning of social care
medRxiv Preprints
Background. FDA-cleared artificial intelligence (AI) triage tool for pulmonary embolism (PE) detection has been widely used; however, its performance has not…
medRxiv Preprints
Mpox re-emerged as a global public health concern in 2022, and the Western Region of Ghana became the epicentre of the countrys largest recorded outbreak in…
medRxiv Preprints
Eating disorders (EDs) are serious psychiatric conditions that typically onset during adolescence and are often marked by a chronic and severe illness course.…
medRxiv Preprints
Objective Seasonal influenza remains a major cause of severe morbidity and mortality among older adults, despite vaccine availability. We assessed whether…
medRxiv Preprints
Background: Over 3.5 million US men are living with prostate cancer (PCa). Certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are carcinogenic and impair…
medRxiv Preprints
Background Non-ventilator-associated hospital-acquired pneumonia (nv-HAP) diagnosis is imprecise; chest x-rays (CXR) lack detail and sputum culture delays…
medRxiv Preprints
Background About 0.07% to 8% of parturients will require intensive care unit (ICU) admission during pregnancy, childbirth or puerperium, with great regional…
medRxiv Preprints
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is an important malaria prevention strategy used widely in areas of West Africa with highly seasonal transmission.…
medRxiv Preprints
Background Sickle cell anaemia (SCA) is a major public health problem in Uganda. Monthly sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) remains the standard malaria…
medRxiv Preprints
Tobacco cessation support is largely absent from health facilities in Nepal, particularly in rural areas. Female community health volunteers(FCHVs) serve…
medRxiv Preprints
Kenya's electronic community health information system (eCHIS) moves household and service data from community health promoters' phones into the national…
medRxiv Preprints
Objective: To develop and evaluate AToP (Attribution to Temporal Patterns), a post-hoc explainability framework that converts per-token Integrated Gradients…
medRxiv Preprints
Background: EMFRA is a brief scale developed to assess physical, cognitive, emotional, and social functioning in older adults. This study examined its initial…
medRxiv Preprints
Although cognitive decline and dementia are common at advanced ages, a fraction of individuals reach extreme ages maintaining high levels of cognitive…
medRxiv Preprints
Background Diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of preventable blindness. Because it is asymptomatic until substantial damage has occurred, periodic retinal…
medRxiv Preprints
Neuroinflammation is increasingly recognised as a key contributor to frontotemporal dementia (FTD) pathophysiology, yet how inflammatory processes relate to…
medRxiv Preprints
Background. Despite decades of EEG biomarker development for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), no candidate has progressed to clinical deployment, partly…
medRxiv Preprints
Purpose: Robot-assisted therapy predominantly targets motor impairment, although post-stroke motor and cognitive impairments co-occur. We report user…
medRxiv Preprints
Objective: This study aimed to project introduction timing and pathways of cholera conjugate vaccine (CCV) and combined typhoid-cholera conjugate vaccines…
medRxiv Preprints
Background Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) may provide personalised and dynamically adjustable support for chronic disease self-management. However,…
medRxiv Preprints
Introduction: Although psilocybin has shown promise for treating depression, responses vary considerably, with some individuals experiencing limiting…
medRxiv Preprints
Polygenic associations with neurodevelopmental traits may reflect both direct and indirect genetic effects. However, evidence separating these effects is…
medRxiv Preprints
Time from symptom onset to first care may be a modifiable determinant of COVID-19 outcomes, but it is rarely quantified in primary care. This retrospective…
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