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More than 25 million people across the country face acute hunger as well as outbreaks of disease due to civil war.

With their primary goal to advance scientific knowledge, most scientists are not trained or incentivized to think through the societal implications of the technologies they are developing. Even in genomic medicine, which is geared toward benefiting future patients, time and funding pressures make real-time ethics oversight difficult.

West Nile virus is the most common mosquito-borne illness in the continental U.S., with an average of 2,464 reported cases per year.

Other examples of neglected diseases include the West Nile, Zika and Chikungunya viruses

"The West only gets concerned about controlling epidemics when we start seeing cases, and then it is almost always too late to eradicate the infection."

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I was only 26 when I learned I had the disease. I now use SPF religiously – but it shouldn’t cost me an extra 20% on every bottle, says campaigner Jessica Zbinden-Webster

Untreated hypertension is linked to a 42% higher risk of Alzheimer's disease in adults aged 60 or older, a study revealed.

The study found that drinking more than 400 mg of caffeine most days raises the risk of heart disease in otherwise healthy individuals.

World health authorities are increasingly alarmed by the latest mpox outbreak, driven by a more lethal and infectious variant than the strain behind the 2022 outbreak – with this new version predominantly affecting children.

The WHO on Thursday warned further imported cases of the new, more dangerous mpox strain in Europe were likely, after Sweden announced the first such infection outside Africa in an outbreak that has killed hundreds in the DR Congo.