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Childhood vaccinations will have prevented more than 500 million illnesses and 1 million deaths in US since 1994, CDC report says
Routine childhood vaccinations will have prevented hundreds of millions of illnesses, tens of millions of hospitalizations and more than 1 million deaths among people born between 1994 and 2023, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Forced labor crisis: Health workers and teachers sent to cotton fields
Budget sector employees in the western Turkmenistan province of Balkan, including teachers and doctors, were forced to interrupt their vacations and work on trimming and harvesting cotton, reported Azatlyk, the Turkmen section of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. "The work is very hard manual labor, and temperatures hovering around 105 degrees Fahre...
Patients will come to harm from GP industrial action, most senior family doctor warns
Patients will come to harm from GP industrial action, the country’s most senior family doctor has warned. Surgeries across the country are embarking on “work-to-rule” measures designed to bring the NHS to “a standstill” following a vote by the British Medical Association (BMA). Doctors have been told they can “pick and choose” from measures designe...