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The Open Letter in The Lancet A group of 55 doctors and medical professionals from across the globe, including three Nobel Prize winners, have called on the “Syrian Government and all armed parties to refrain from attacking hospitals, ambulances...

UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East, has been given an impossible task.  Originally a temporary agency to assist and protect the 750,000 Palestinian refugees created by the war in 1948 with Israel...

Ahead of Print -Evaluation of Border Entry Screening for Infectious Diseases in Humans - Volume 21, Number 2—February 2015 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal - CDC Volume 21, Number 2—February 2015 Perspective Evaluation of Border Entry Screening...

And much, much more as events accelerate ominously. . . First, from the Guardian: Ebola outbreak a threat to world peace, says UN security council Group unanimously backs emergency resolution as UN secretary general calls for $1bn aid effort to tackle...

First comes civil war, then comes polio. Ukraine and its child population are threatened by a polio epidemic due to years of neglect by the government and health authorities in vaccinating children. The representative of the World Health Organization...