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Pandemic fuels burden of non-COVID diseases
Pandemic fuels burden of non-COVID diseases
19 Jul 2025 byStephen Padilla

Disease burden has significantly increased because of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly mental health disorders, malaria in young children in the African region, and stroke and ischaemic heart disease in older adults, reports a study.

Pandemic fuels burden of non-COVID diseases
19 Jul 2025
Nontargeted better than targeted screening at identifying HCV cases in EDs
Nontargeted better than targeted screening at identifying HCV cases in EDs
14 Jul 2025 byJairia Dela Cruz

A non–risk-based screening approach for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in the emergency department (ED), where all eligible patients were offered rapid testing, improves the identification of new infections when compared with a targeted approach of narrowly focusing on at-risk groups, according to the DETECT Hep C trial.

Nontargeted better than targeted screening at identifying HCV cases in EDs
14 Jul 2025