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Cybersecurity Meets Chaos Theory: A New Approach to Protect Medical Data
As cyberattacks on healthcare systems continue to rise, researchers are exploring unconventional solutions to safeguard sensitive medical data. A new approach based on chaos theory promises to significantly enhance the encryption of medical images offering protection even when hospital networks are compromised.
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Muscle Strength as a Predictor of Survival: New Evidence Links Fitness to Longevity
Muscle strength is emerging as a powerful and independent predictor of mortality. New research highlights that individuals with higher muscular strength across age groups have a significantly lower risk of death, even when accounting for physical activity and cardiovascular fitness. The findings reinforce the growing importance of strength training in preventive medicine.
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Middle East Conflict Disrupts Pharma Supply Chains: Cancer Drugs at Risk
The ongoing conflict in the Middle East is increasingly disrupting global pharmaceutical supply chains. With key air cargo hubs closed and transport routes rerouted, the delivery of life-saving medicines particularly temperature-sensitive cancer drugs is under growing pressure. Industry experts warn that prolonged disruption could lead to shortages within weeks.
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US Vaccine Policy in Turmoil: Court Blocks Reforms, but Trust Damage Persists
A U.S. federal court has dealt a significant blow to controversial vaccine policy changes introduced by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. While pediatricians and public health experts have secured an initial legal victory, experts warn that the broader damage to public trust, scientific integrity, and vaccination uptake—may already be difficult to reverse.
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Measles Surge in the US: Cases Top 1,100 as Experts Warn of Rising Risks
Measles cases in the United States have surged past 1,100 infections within the first two months of 2026, raising alarm among public health experts and infectious disease specialists. The outbreak, spanning more than two dozen states, highlights declining vaccination coverage and renewed concerns about the country’s ability to maintain measles elimination status.
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WHO Updates Flu Vaccine Composition for the 2026–2027 Northern Hemisphere Season
The Vaccine Formula Changes Every Year
The World Health Organization has released its latest recommendations for the composition of seasonal influenza vaccines for the 2026–2027 Northern Hemisphere season. The guidance, based on global surveillance of circulating influenza viruses, helps vaccine manufacturers and health authorities prepare formulations months ahead of the next flu season.
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Collagen Supplements Improve Skin Elasticity, Wrinkles are a Different Subject
Review of 113 clinical trials outcome
A large systematic review of 113 clinical trials involving nearly 8,000 participants concludes that oral collagen supplementation can modestly improve skin elasticity and hydration — but does not prevent wrinkle formation. Researchers emphasise that while collagen offers measurable dermatologic and musculoskeletal benefits, it should not be considered an anti-ageing “cure-all.”
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Medicare 2026: Three Major Changes Doctors Can’t Afford to Ignore
Medicare is set to undergo significant cost and coverage changes in 2026 and these updates could directly affect reimbursement, prescribing decisions and patient affordability. From drug pricing caps to premium adjustments, physicians should understand what’s coming to anticipate financial and clinical implications for their practices and patients.
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Three Ways Forward in a Post Covid-19 World
There are three important ways forward in addressing the pandemic and its impacts on health and wellbeing in the years to come.
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Gender-sensitive Workplace Health Promotion: Why It Is Important and How It Can Be Implemented in Practice
Sex and gender are important determinants of health, but we often lack criteria for effective gender-sensitive work place health promotion. A team at the Austrian Health Promotion Fund are working to overcome these challenges. They have developed 17 criteria and a 62-point checklist for workplace health promotion initiatives.
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COVID-19: the worst may be yet to come
As much of western Europe begins to ease countrywide lockdowns, globally the pandemic may still be in its infancy, with more than 160 000 new cases reported each day since June 25. Individual countries count cases differently, so direct comparisons are difficult, but the numbers illustrate a worrying pattern. At a subnational level the picture is nuanced, with local hotspots, but at a country level the picture is clear—the world is facing a worsening multipolar pandemic.
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Medicine shortages in the EU: causes and solutions
Find out why there is a shortage of medicines, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and how Parliament wants to improve the situation
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Coronavirus Makes Inequality a Public Health Issue
“It may seem like a ridiculous idea but the only way to fight the plague is with decency.” – Dr Rieux in Albert Camus’s 1947 novel, The Plague.
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Study finds functional medicine model is associated with improvements in health-related QOL
In the first retrospective cohort study of the functional medicine model, Cleveland Clinic researchers found that functional medicine was associated with improvements in health-related quality of life. The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open.
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NHS treating 5,000 diabetics a day as one in 10 patients now suffer with illness, figures reveal
Hospitals are being deluged by 5,000 type 2 diabetics a day, new figures reveal as one in 10 patients are now suffering from a form of the illness linked to being overweight and inactive.
More than 1.7million people with type 2 diabetes were admitted to hospitals last year, costing the NHS an estimated £22million a day.
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A ‘Cure’ for Ebola but Will it Stop the Outbreak if People Won’t Get Treatment?
While people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are slowly being made aware that scientists have discovered two drugs that are effective in treating Ebola, letting go of the fear and anxiety that has prevailed across the country this year will require more work.
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Civilians ‘continue to pay highest price’ in Ukraine conflict, with peace prospects losing ‘momentum’
“Civilians continue to pay the highest price” arising from Ukraine’s on-going conflict with separatist rebels in the east, the UN Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator told the Security Council on Tuesday, a conflict which is still claiming lives.
Why Doctors Hate Their Computers
Digitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient. But are screens coming between doctors and patients?
On a sunny afternoon in May, 2015, I joined a dozen other surgeons at a downtown Boston office building to begin sixteen hours of mandatory computer training.
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Incident Management System
To enhance World Health Organisations Emergency Programme (WHE) response capability,
To enhance World Health Organisations Emergency Programme (WHE) response capability, WHE proposed the development of a series of training packages to build staff competencies, skills and knowledge, to enhance deployment and response capability.
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MARIJUANA: The Latest Scientific Findings and Legalization
California, Massachusetts, Maine, and Nevada became the latest states to legalize recreational marijuana, bringing to 28 the number of states that have okayed the drug for medicinal use, recreational use, or both ...
What do we know about the health impacts of marijuana, and what do we still need to learn?
Estimating HIV incidence and number of undiagnosed individuals living with HIV in the European Union/European Economic Area, 2015
Since 2011, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) incidence appears unchanged in the European Union/European Economic Area with between 29,000 and 33,000 new cases reported annually up to 2015.
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Typhoid Fever: A Race Against Time
Salmonella uses immune cells, the Biozentrum of the University of Basel
The life-threatening disease typhoid fever results from the ongoing battle between the bacterial pathogen Salmonella and the immune cells of the body. Prof. Dirk Bumann's research group at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has now uncovered how the typhoid pathogen repeatedly manages to evade the host's immune system. Their findings are published in the scientific journal Cell Host & Microbe
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