Given that HCV is a bloodborne virus, any circumstance that promotes continued drug injection—including failure to prevent or diagnose and adequately treat substance use disorders—can result in ...

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Over the weekend, a new buzzword entered the mainstream lexicon when the British medical journal The Lancet released a major report on “The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate ...

Kansas City, MO, July 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Collaborative to Advance Health Services, housed within the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Nursing and Health Studies, with an ...

With Covid-19 vaccines beginning to be distributed in the United States and other countries, and with health care professionals more knowledgeable about the virus, there’s hope we’ll be able to manage ...

A syndemic refers to multiple interrelated epidemics happening at the same time. Covid-19 has unleashed and amplified a number of simultaneous personal, social, medical, political, and economic crises ...

COVID will likely reach levels in December not yet seen this year, combining with surges of flu, RSV, and other pathogens for a winter not so different from last year’s “tripledemic,” experts say. Raj ...

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Maine may be facing two concurrent COVID-19 epidemics — known as a “syndemic” — among older adults and young people that are driving up cases in the state, Maine’s top health official told local CBS ...

Public health experts have warned the United States is a "sitting duck" in the face of a "syndemic" winter as surges of flu, RSV and other pathogens combine with high levels of COVID-19 infections.

Kiran Sitaras on their mission of ending TB among their local community via door-to-door household screenings. Under the Kiran Sitara initiative, school girls are educated and trained to conduct ...

Here’s some uplifting news: we are no longer in a pandemic. There is, alas, a catch: we are instead trapped in a “syndemic”. A syndemic, or synergistic epidemic, refers to the idea that the virus does ...