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World Health Day 2026: WHO urges global collaboration and science for better health5:48 The World Health Organization (WHO) today calls on people everywhere to renew their commitment to working together and supporting science as the twin engines driving better health, under the World Health Day 2026 theme: "Together for health. Stand with science." Expanded Medicaid improved access to buprenorphine for opioid use disorder5:16 Medicaid insurance expansions between 2017 and 2023 sharply increased access to medication treatment for opioid use disorder in a period when fatal overdoses continued to climb, according to Rutgers Health researchers. Estonian study reveals varied stress responses during first pandemic year4:43 Karel Kulbin, a well-being researcher at Tallinn University, focuses in his doctoral thesis on how perceived stress levels and depressive symptoms among Estonian residents changed during the first year of the pandemic and what role active leisure activities played in this. Remote monitoring technology helps Brooklyn resident manage high blood pressure18:37 When 57-year-old Brooklyn resident Timothy Rhonda visited Park Ridge Family Health Center at NYU Langone with dangerously high blood pressure, he worried he might once again end up in the hospital. Immigrant seniors lose Medicare coverage despite paying for it12:55 Rosa María Carranza leaned forward to hold a 3-year-old's back as the girl climbed a rock in the forested hills of northeast Oakland. Requests for “unvaccinated” blood lead to delays and patient harm12:21 The trend for unvaccinated blood donations raises concerns about patient safety and resource efficiency, emphasizing the need for better transfusion protocols. Inuit communities urge policy changes to address tuberculosis epidemic7:58 Tuberculosis rates for Inuit living in Nunavik, the Inuit lands in northern Quebec, are 1000 times greater than among non-foreign-born Quebeckers, and underresourcing of local health care adds to hardship from the disease, found new research published in CMAJ. Rail expansion alone does not guarantee lower medical costs7:58 Japan's transition to a super-aged society is intensifying pressure on healthcare and social security spending. Identity cohesion linked to better mental health in marginalized groups4.dubna People of color who are also part of sexual and gender minority groups face unique challenges shaped by overlapping forms of discrimination. While much research has focused on the mental health risks they experience, far less has explored how people of these multiple identities build strength and resilience. Emerging SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.3.2 shows no signs of greater danger4.dubna The Global Virus Network (GVN), representing eminent human and animal virologists from more than 90 Centers of Excellence and Affiliates in over 40 countries dedicated to advancing research, collaboration, and pandemic preparedness, is monitoring the SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.3.2, sometimes informally referred to in media reports as the "cicada" variant, and emphasizes that current evidence does not … |