A psychologist explains why certain goals may be more effective than others in breaking screen habits.
Zimbabwe leaders welcome Chinese COVID-19 experts at the Robert Mugabe International Airport in Harare on May 11, 2020.
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China is providing masks, vaccines, medical equipment and personnel to African countries ignored by the U.S. in recent years, positioning itself as an essential partner to the region.
While some leaders were swinging into action, Boris Johnson was shaking hands with COVID patients.
Will Oliver
Public health measures have helped control COVID-19 in Australia. But they’ve affected other winter viruses, too.
A COVID-19 vaccine is administered at a clinic at Olympic Stadium in Montréal on March 1, 2021, marking the beginning of mass vaccination in the Province of Québec based on age.
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With four COVID-19 vaccines approved for use in Canada, it’s time to answer FAQs about efficacy, immunity, eradication and variants.
Children’s early interactions with their environment are essential for the immune systems to learn to differentiate between safe versus dangerous disease-causing microbes.
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COVID-19 prevention measures are at odds with guidelines for healthy development of children’s immune systems. The result may be a cluster of youth with more allergies, asthma and autoimmune disease.
A man wearing a face mask wheels his wheelchair past a spray-painted wall in downtown Vancouver in March 2020.
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Cross-partisanship co-operation among political leaders doesn’t neatly translate into a similar consensus among the Canadian public, including those with disabilities or chronic health conditions.
A man receives the first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at a private medical office, in Paris.
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The coronavirus pandemic has driven a lot of scientific progress in the past year. But just as some of the social changes are likely here to stay, so are some medical innovations.
Millions of Americans may wonder if they inadvertently passed COVID-19 to someone else.
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Despite a decrease in traffic during the pandemic, single-vehicle car crashes increased.
Students from the public school where more than 200 girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 on their first day back at the school.
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Medical decision-making is often based on universal principles of fairness. But what happens when systemic racism means the dice are rigged to begin with?
There’s a case for targeting vaccine rollout on areas where healthy life expectancy is low, such as Blackpool.
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For those who are socially deprived, vulnerability to COVID-19 will arise at an earlier age.
Nurse Nicole Chang celebrates after receiving one of the first injections of the COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 16 at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Westwood, California.
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Millions of vaccinated people have been waiting for guidelines on what they can do safely. The CDC says it’s OK to gather with other vaccinated people, but it’s still best to avoid travel.
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand