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涩里番 researchers have developed and are licensing a digital tool to help safely reduce patients鈥� use of medications that may be unnecessary or even harmful to them.

When clinicians review a patient鈥檚 file, flags potentially inappropriate medications. In a , the software helped deprescribe such medications in 36 per cent of long-term care residents, nearly triple as many as when reviews were done without the tool.

涩里番 researchers have developed and are licensing a digital tool to help safely reduce patients鈥� use of medications that may be unnecessary or even harmful to them.

When clinicians review a patient鈥檚 file, flags potentially inappropriate medications. In a , the software helped deprescribe such medications in 36 per cent of long-term care residents, nearly triple as many as when reviews were done without the tool.

涩里番 researchers have developed and are licensing a digital tool to help safely reduce patients鈥� use of medications that may be unnecessary or even harmful to them.

When clinicians review a patient鈥檚 file, flags potentially inappropriate medications. In a , the software helped deprescribe such medications in 36 per cent of long-term care residents, nearly triple as many as when reviews were done without the tool.

涩里番 researchers have developed and are licensing a digital tool to help safely reduce patients鈥� use of medications that may be unnecessary or even harmful to them.

When clinicians review a patient鈥檚 file, flags potentially inappropriate medications. In a , the software helped deprescribe such medications in 36 per cent of long-term care residents, nearly triple as many as when reviews were done without the tool.

涩里番 researchers have developed and are licensing a digital tool to help safely reduce patients鈥� use of medications that may be unnecessary or even harmful to them.

When clinicians review a patient鈥檚 file, flags potentially inappropriate medications. In a , the software helped deprescribe such medications in 36 per cent of long-term care residents, nearly triple as many as when reviews were done without the tool.

涩里番 researchers have developed and are licensing a digital tool to help safely reduce patients鈥� use of medications that may be unnecessary or even harmful to them.

When clinicians review a patient鈥檚 file, flags potentially inappropriate medications. In a , the software helped deprescribe such medications in 36 per cent of long-term care residents, nearly triple as many as when reviews were done without the tool.

Cholera is ripping through North Darfur, Sudan, threatening thousands of children already weakened by hunger and displacement, UN Children鈥檚 Fund (UNICEF) warned on Sunday, as aid convoys struggle to reach cut-off communities amid escalating conflict.

Sub-Saharan Africa has taken a cautious but critical step toward greater health self-reliance as locally produced HIV medicines and diagnostic tests begin reaching national programmes 鈥� including, for the first time, procurement of African-made treatment for Mozambique.

96 Global Health NOW: CTE in the Spotlight; Inside Brazil鈥檚 Human-Trafficking Crisis; and Mercury鈥檚 Toll on Mental Health July 31, 2025 Flowers and a balloon reading "love one another" that were left outside the 345 Park Avenue building, the scene of a July 28 deadly shooting in Midtown Manhattan, New York. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty CTE in the Spotlight 
  The gunman who killed four people in a Manhattan office shooting this week said in a note that he believed he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the degenerative disease that stems from repeated hits to the head. 

It is unclear whether he had the condition, as it can only be diagnosed posthumously in an autopsy. But the violence has brought renewed attention to CTE鈥攁long with scrutiny about how the shooter was able to access a gun despite documented mental health hospitalizations, and deploy it in a city with some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, . 

Concerns about CTE and full-contact sports have been building for two decades, as more studies have shown how repeated blows to the head lead to the buildup of brain-damaging proteins, . 

• A number of former football players who turned to violence鈥攑articularly suicide鈥攚ere found posthumously to have CTE, . 


• But self-diagnosis comes with its own dangers, 鈥攅specially as links between CTE and high school football, which the gunman played, remain understudied. 


• And the majority of people with CTE never engage in violence, Daniel H. Daneshvar, chief of brain injury rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School : 鈥淚 would never draw a direct line between someone鈥檚 brain pathology and any specific violent act.鈥� 

Loopholes in gun laws: The perpetrator had twice been hospitalized for mental health reasons, but was still able to have a concealed carry license and access a gun in his home state of Nevada, which does not automatically disqualify someone from possessing or buying guns, despite having had emergency hospitalizations, .

• And such laws may not have mattered: The NYPD has said the shooter鈥檚 AR-style rifle was likely assembled using parts.

GLOBAL HEALTH VOICES The Latest One-Liners   Cholera threatens ~80,000 children across West and Central Africa, with active outbreaks in DRC and Nigeria posing a high risk of cross-border transmission; hardest-hit DRC reports 38,000+ cases, 951 deaths, and an alarming 8% case fatality rate in July.
 
As deadly heat waves sweep East Asia, South Korea has recorded 13 heat-related deaths so far this year鈥�3X the same period last year鈥攁nd Japan recorded its highest-ever temperature of 41.2 degrees Celsius in Tamba.

A large fungal meningitis outbreak in the U.S. that sickened 24 patients and killed 12 occurred among people who received epidural anesthesia for cosmetic surgeries in Matamoros, Mexico, in 2023, , which highlights the need for more rigorous diagnostic measures.

Dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs can be awakened by respiratory infections like COVID-19 or the flu, has found; the data could have implications for human cases, as SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection has been linked with a nearly 2X increase in cancer-related death. U.S. and Global Health Policy News The Role of International Aid in Supporting Ukraine鈥檚 Recovery Efforts 鈥�

Abortion shield laws are under fire 鈥�

Trump Prepares to Revoke Lifesaving Abortion Care for Veterans 鈥�

Ousted vaccine panel members say rigorous science is being abandoned 鈥�

Top FDA vaccine regulator under Trump ousted amid conservative criticism 鈥� GHN EXCLUSIVE A sunset in January over the Branco River in Roraima, Brazil's capital city, Boa Vista (Good View). Julianna Deutscher From Displacement to Exploitation: Inside Brazil鈥檚 Human-Trafficking Crisis
BOA VISTA, Brazil鈥擳he capital of northern Brazil鈥檚 Roraima state is known for the placid Branco River, gorgeous sunsets, and beautiful landscapes.

Yet behind the attractive fa莽ade, desperate  in drugs, weapons, gold, people, and organs.

Persistent risks: Many fall prey to Brazilian and Venezuelan criminal groups that lure migrants to the garimpos (illegal gold mines) with false promises but then trap them in modern slavery. Women are forced into sex work, often at the mines, posadas (motels), and restaurants.

Migrants are often bound not by physical captivity but by 鈥渋nvisible chains鈥濃�攆ear for a loved one鈥檚 safety, dependence on shelter, language barriers, or the urgent need to feed their children.

Back story: A year after the contentious reelection of President Nicol谩s Maduro, hundreds of Venezuelans still arrive daily through a small Brazilian border town north of Boa Vista.

In this second part of a series on Venezuelan migrants鈥� experiences in Brazil, Julianna Deutscher describes the migrants鈥� plight and the policy and funding barriers to their protection.

Editor鈥檚 note: Julianna Deutscher, MD, MPH, reported this article鈥攖he second in a series鈥攚ith support from the . Read the first article . GLOBAL HEALTH VOICES ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH Mercury鈥檚 Toll on Mental Health 
Widespread mercury poisoning has been linked to high attempted suicide rates among youth in the Indigenous Grassy Narrows First Nation in Ontario, . 

Background: Mercury contamination in the region began in the 1960s鈥�70s, when a paper mill dumped ~10 tons of mercury into local rivers used for fishing.  

• Over the years, the Grassy Narrows First Nation community has seen suicide attempts increase dramatically鈥�3X higher than in other First Nation communities in Canada.

Findings: Researchers analyzed mercury levels in 162 children and 80 mothers, finding three generations of mercury exposure linked to emotional and behavioral problems鈥攑articularly among women who ate fish during pregnancy. 

The Quote: 鈥淥ur way of life has been totally destroyed,鈥� said Grassy Narrows First Nation Chief Rudy Turtle

  ALMOST FRIDAY DIVERSION Literary Tails 
Bookshop pets have a pretty tough gig, considering their full-time job is to literally curl up with a good book.

And these days, they have even more responsibility thanks to social media鈥攚hich has conferred main-character status upon the cockatiels, cats, and King Charles Spaniels inhabiting the stacks.

• 鈥淲e get a whole bunch of readers, but people really come to see the animals,鈥� said Anna Hersh, a co-owner and 鈥渁nimal care coordinator鈥� of Wild Rumpus in Minneapolis鈥攁 mythic menagerie of birds, cats, fish, and a pair of chinchillas named Newbery and Caldecott. 

Where the Wild Things Are:

• Bear Pond Books in Vermont is under the supervision of Veruca Salt, , who hosts an annual birthday party with cake and stories鈥攏otably The Tortoise and the Hare.


• The Literary Cat Co. in Kansas partners with a local animal rescue to fostered at the shop. 


• Scattered Books in New York hires booksellers based on their bunny expertise鈥攁nd not just knowledge of the plotlines of Peter Rabbit or Watership Down: 
  
  
  • 鈥淧eople come in and they鈥檙e like, 鈥業 love to read.鈥� I鈥檓 like, 鈥楬ow are you with rabbits?鈥欌�� said owner Laura Schaefer, whose 鈥溾�� have top shelf status (despite being confined to empty bottom shelves). 

QUICK HITS Canada鈥檚 Measles Outbreak Exceeds Cases in the U.S. 鈥�

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The status of ownership and utilization of long-lasting insecticidal treated nets in war-torn Tigray, Ethiopia 鈥�

U.S. Visa Bureaucracy and Its Burdens Among Early Career Scholars 鈥�

Scientists just invented a safer non-stick coating鈥攁nd it鈥檚 inspired by arrows 鈥�

She ended up with a bat in her mouth 鈥� and $21,000 in medical bills 鈥�  Issue No. 2767
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As Myanmar reels from deadly floods, renewed fighting and widespread displacement, the United Nations warned on Thursday that urgent humanitarian needs are going unmet due to escalating violence and blocked access.