AGP Executive Report
Last update: 10 hours agoHealth Coverage: A Philippine lawmaker has proposed insurance protections for informal workers, including drivers, delivery riders and street vendors, who often lack a financial safety net for medical emergencies. Long-Term Risks: A Lancet Commission report urges governments to look beyond election cycles, warning that preventable threats such as unhealthy diets, poor mental health, pandemics, antimicrobial resistance and climate change could drive major health losses this century. Cancer Care: A study of nearly 900 women found that three weeks of radiation after mastectomy was a safe alternative to the traditional five-week course for patients having breast reconstruction. Outbreak Watch: Ghana has introduced Ebola screening at international airports as regional surveillance tightens; New York officials also reported a child’s measles death, the state’s first in 30 years. Precision Medicine: Alamar Biosciences and GSK will analyze more than 60,000 patient samples to study how protein signatures could help explain disease progression and treatment response.
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