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Following the resolution to strengthen access to quality emergency, critical and operative care (ECO) services across the globe approved at the Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly, the World Health Organization has announced the Acute Care Action Network (ACAN), a global alliance of key actors and stakeholders committed to saving millions of lives by driving action on ECO through stronger action, together.

A woman shows her COVID-19 vaccine card alongside her sisters in Kano, Nigeria.

Nurses work at a mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Rofunta, Sierra Leone, in December 2022.

The dairy cow is an important agricultural asset in rural villages, signifying wealth and insurance, as well as providing a significant form of nutrition.

Early screening can make Chagas a disease of the past, said UNITAID, a global agency hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO), on the occasion of World Chagas Disease Day, observed on Friday.

The new mouse model, known as Ts66Yah, has a minichromosome with over a hundred genes from mouse chromosome 16 attached to the centromere region of mouse chromosome 17. These genes are most relevant to human chromosome 21Faycal Guedj and Darryl Leja, NHGRI

WHO recommends HIV self-testing (HIVST) as an important approach to address gaps in HIV diagnoses including among key populations (sex workers, men who have sex with men, transgender people, people who inject drugs, and people in prisons other closed settings). Globally, 98 countries now have policies supportive of HIVST and 52 are routinely implementing, yet many countries have not yet introduced HIVST as a routine approach.

The World Health Organization (WHO) released on 14 March an updated WHO health workforce support and safeguards list 2023, identifying 55 countries as vulnerable for availability of health workers required to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goal target for universal health coverage (UHC) by 2030.

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health show the benefits of screening adult patients in remission from acute myeloid leukemia (AML) for residual disease before receiving a bone marrow transplant. The findings support ongoing research aimed at developing precision medicine and personalized post-transplant care for these patients.

NCATS scientists used the Center’s drug screening capabilities, including drug screening plates like those shown here, to identify a molecule that was effective in killing liver cancer cells. Researchers determined that a specific enzyme was key to turning the molecule into a potential anticancer drug.