On 20 June we celebrate World Refugee Day, recognizing the strength and courage of the estimated 100 million people around the world who have had to flee their homes.The health of refugees everywhere must be addressed. This entails attending to their immediate needs as well as helping countries build health systems that are sensitive to the reality [...]

COVID-19 shots for U.S. infants, toddlers and preschoolers moved a step closer Wednesday. The Food and Drug Administration’s outside vaccine advisers gave a thumbs-up to Moderna’s two shots for the littlest kids. The panel is set to vote later Wednesday on whether to also recommend Pfizer’s three-shot series for those youngsters. The outside experts [...]

The Council of Europe’s Steering Committee for Human Rights in the fields of Biomedicine and Health (CDBIO) issued a new report on the impact of artificial intelligence on the doctor-patient relationship, prepared by Brent Mittelstadt, Senior Research Fellow and Director of Research at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. The report examines AI systems regarding the [...]

The U.S. has reported 72 cases of monkeypox across 18 states in the last month, making it the country’s largest monkeypox outbreak ever. That total has grown significantly since the beginning of June, when just 19 cases were confirmed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidance Tuesday about how to identify monkeypox during this [...]

The monkeypox outbreak “poses a real risk” to public health, said the World Health Organization’s European chief Wednesday.Driving the news: “The magnitude of this outbreak poses a real risk; the longer the virus circulates, the more it will extend its reach, and the stronger the disease’s foothold will get in non-endemic countries,” said Dr. Hans Henri Kluge, the WHO [...]

It comes after more than 30 scientists wrote last week about the “urgent need for a non-discriminatory and non-stigmatising” name for the virus and the disease it causes. Continued reference to the virus as African is both inaccurate and discriminatory, they said. Some 1,600 cases of the disease have been recorded globally in recent weeks. While [...]

For almost 40 years starting in the 1930s, as government researchers purposely let hundreds of Black men die of syphilis in Alabama so they could study the disease, a foundation in New York covered funeral expenses for the deceased. The payments were vital to survivors of the victims in a time and place ravaged [...]