By: Yan Mardian Event Background On 31 March 2022, Public Health Scotland was alerted to five children aged 3–5 years at Glasgow children’s hospital with severe hepatitis of unknown etiology within three weeks. This cluster exceeded the expected number of cases of hepatitis of unknown etiology, fewer than four per year. The United Kingdom (UK)
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By: Yan Mardian Every 18 April the National Diabetes Day (or Hari Diabetes Nasional) is celebrated in Indonesia. This campaign is led by the Indonesian Ministry of Health and is intended to increase the awareness of diabetes mellitus. Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or
Read moreBy: Aly Diana A biobank is a biorepository that accepts, processes, stores, and distributes biospecimens and associated data for use in research and clinical care. The field of biobanking has changed tremendously over the past thirty years. It started with small, predominantly university-based repositories developed for the research needs of specific projects. They gradually evolved
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