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Today the World Health Organization launched a comprehensive Repository of systematic reviews on interventions in environment, climate change and health. The Repository aims to assess the current state of evidence and to provide a list of systematic reviews on interventions in all major areas of environment, climate change and health (ECH). Areas of ECH covered by the Repository have been defined based on the Compendium of WHO and other UN guidance on health and environment and include air quality, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), climate change, solid waste, chemicals, radiation,...

U.S. health officials are warning clinicians to be alert for cases of measles following several outbreaks, largely among children who were eligible for the vaccine but did not receive it.In an email Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged vigilance among health providers across the U.S. following reports of nearly two dozen cases of the preventable virus since December. Health providers should look for patients with rash and fever, symptoms of measles, and pay attention to patients who have recently traveled internationally, the alert said.Officials have tracked seven cases...

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