Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email An Ebola treatment centre in eastern Congo was set ablaze on Thursday by angry residents, after they were prevented from retrievingContinue Reading
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Model Winnie Harlow has non-segmental vitiligo. Andrea Raffin/ Shutterstock Around one in every 100 people worldwide has vitiligo – a chronic, autoimmune skin condition that causes the skin to appear lighter in patches. The number of people affected by vitiligo makes it one of the most common skin disorders. SeveralContinue Reading
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Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email Nationwide enrollment in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance marketplace is projected to plummet by nearly 5 million people thisContinue Reading
Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email Health workers and humanitarian groups are rushing to try and contain an Ebola outbreak spreading through eastern Democratic Republic of CongoContinue Reading
Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email An American doctor is among the newly confirmed cases in an outbreak in Congo of a rare variant of the EbolaContinue Reading
Zhenny-zhenny/ Shutterstock The UK continues to experience shortages of many common prescription drugs, despite efforts to strengthen supply chains. Drugs for ADHD, epilepsy, GLP-1s for type 2 diabetes and weight loss, as well as ramipril (which is used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure), have all faced supplyContinue Reading
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