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The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have called for an urgent scale-up of the community-led Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with stronger early detection, contact follow up, access to care, support for frontline health workers and faster delivery of re

For many older adults with heart disease, age is a significant factor in decisions about treatment. But a new Yale-led study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society suggests that overall health, function, and medical conditions may be more important than age alone when physicians and patients consider percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), a…