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New Zealand's incoming Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has said that the new conservative government will scrap the world's leading anti-smoking measures. Health advocates have described the move as "a huge victory for the tobacco industry".

AFP reports that former New York Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has introduced a 'generational smoking ban', banning the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after 2008. The ban was scheduled to be phased in later this year.

China around the influenza, Mycoplasma pneumoniae (mycoplasma) and other respiratory diseases into the peak season, in addition to rhinovirus, respiratory syncytial virus, adenovirus, etc., Shanghai's three major pediatric hospitals, Fudan University Pediatrics Hospital, Shanghai Children's Hospital, Shanghai Children's Medical Center affiliated with Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, the number of registered consultations remain high, the first week of November, an average of daily outpatient emergency visits in the 8000 The first week of November, the average daily outpatient emergency

The World Health Organization (WHO) calls on world leaders to increase political commitment and action to invest in the “One Health” approach to prevent and tackle common threats affecting the health and well-being of humans, animals, plants and environment together.

The Improving Mental Health Services Project is the twelfth project to be approved as part of the Sint Maarten Trust Fund Program. First proposed in 2021, the team led by World Bank experts made great strides over the last year to strategically design a project that brings sustainable, transformative benefits for the Sint Maarten population.

A National Institute of Health-supported study found that statins, a class of cholesterol-lowering medications, may offset the high risk of cardiovascular disease in people living with HIV by more than a third, potentially preventing one in five major cardiovascular events or premature deaths in this population. People living with HIV can have a 50-100% increased risk for cardiovascular disease. The findings are published in the New England Journal of Medicine(link is external).

Post-treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS), which is a collection of symptoms, such as pain, fatigue, and difficulty thinking or “brain fog,” which linger following standard treatment for Lyme disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 476,000 people in the United States are infected with Lyme disease each year. Between 10 and 20% of them experience PTLDS.