The World Health Organization has appointed Dr Vanessa Kerry as the WHO Director-General’s Special Envoy for Health Resilience. Building on her previous role as WHO’s first Director-General Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health, Dr Kerry will help advance a broader agenda focused on building resilient, integrated and sustainably-financed health systems capable of responding to…

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    A teenage girl and her boyfriend are facing criminal charges in North Carolina after allegedly attempting to self-manage her abortion using pills. She was reportedly 31 weeks pregnant when she took the medication. At that stage of pregnancy, the medication induced labor and she gave birth, presumably without medical assistance. The state charged her with…

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    SYRACUSE, N.Y. —The fifth annual Health and Wellness Event was held in Syracuse on Saturday. Five different local organizations teamed up to give back to the community. Those organizations are Peace, Inc., CARE, Syracuse Housing Authority, the Brady Faith Center and Meals on Wheels. This was the first time that Peace Inc. joined this partnership