How social media became a 'Wild West' for sexual health testing

It arrived with slick branding on the packets, but an instruction leaflet in dense technical language and a warning that it should only be administered by a specialist.

Stock Up While You Can, Because COVID Rapid Tests Are 40% Off

COVID cases may no longer dominate headlines, but the virus is still circulating — and these rapid tests can help you stay ...

From NHS hell to parking apps: Telegraph readers are fed up with modern Britain

Allison Pearson rounds up your woeful tales of ‘ens---tification’ that reveal a country in terminal decline ...

I Picked Up The Phone To Hear My Fiancé Gasping Through Tears. 6 Years Later, I Need To Tell His Story.

"In the most horrific cases, they picked up bodies from the floor of the trucks or checked toe tags in the dark, no hospital ...
AllAfrica

Africa Has Faced a Rare Ebola Outbreak for Months. Here's What to Know.

Blog - The rapid spread of a rare Ebola strain through Central and East Africa is testing local public health authorities and raising concerns about the state of global health security.
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AI completes development with zero instructions: The mechanism of 'pitting AIs against each other' that overcame 3 rejections and 13 tests

The other day, I conducted a small experiment on an internal financial project. I wrote just one GitHub Issue (a ticket describing a development task) and left the rest entirely to AI. Writing the ...
The Independent

Ebola breakthrough in site as manufacturers line up to provide rapid tests

A breakthrough in the fight against the deadly Bundibugyo Ebola virus could be weeks away, as five manufacturers are poised to begin field trials for rapid antigen tests in eastern Congo. The ...
The Lancet

COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2-confirmed hospitalisation in the eastern part of the WHO European Region (2022–2023): a test-negative case-control study ...

fMediterranean and Black Sea Programme in Intervention Epidemiology Training (MediPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden ...
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Rapid $5 coronavirus test doesn’t need specialty equipment

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorized the first rapid coronavirus test that doesn’t need any special computer equipment to get results. The 15-minute test from Abbott Laboratories ...