Public health experts have warned the United States is a "sitting duck" in the face of a "syndemic" winter as surges of flu, RSV and other pathogens combine with high levels of COVID-19 infections.

Given that HCV is a bloodborne virus, any circumstance that promotes continued drug injection—including failure to prevent or diagnose and adequately treat substance use disorders—can result in ...

A syndemic refers to multiple interrelated epidemics happening at the same time. Covid-19 has unleashed and amplified a number of simultaneous personal, social, medical, political, and economic crises ...

Here’s some uplifting news: we are no longer in a pandemic. There is, alas, a catch: we are instead trapped in a “syndemic”. A syndemic, or synergistic epidemic, refers to the idea that the virus does ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The world is caught in a perfect storm of rising rates of chronic disease, persistent infectious diseases and public health failures that have fuelled deaths in the COVID-19 ...

COVID will likely reach levels in December not yet seen this year, combining with surges of flu, RSV, and other pathogens for a winter not so different from last year’s “tripledemic,” experts say. Raj ...

Kansas City, MO, July 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Collaborative to Advance Health Services, housed within the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Nursing and Health Studies, with an ...

With Covid-19 vaccines beginning to be distributed in the United States and other countries, and with health care professionals more knowledgeable about the virus, there’s hope we’ll be able to manage ...

Maine may be facing two concurrent COVID-19 epidemics — known as a “syndemic” — among older adults and young people that are driving up cases in the state, Maine’s top health official told local CBS ...

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A syndemic is a term that refers to two or more epidemics and how they interact with social and economic concerns. Research suggests that COVID-19, when combined with other health conditions and ...

The Lancet Commission on Obesity has announced that the world is suffering from a "syndemic" of obesity, undernutrition and climate change. But ... what, exactly, is a syndemic? The term was first ...