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Grants scheme will improve Londoners lives while also helping to prepare schools for climate impacts, according to Mayor Sadiq Khan

Human health is a fundamental need of the society. The pharmaceutical industry has played a pivotal role in providing mankind with drugs for preventive and curative care. COVID-19 has...

AECOM has announced that its Compass Production and Technical Services Joint Venture (Compass PTS JV) has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide production and technical architectural and engineering services...

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Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak — Nigeria, July–September 2014 Please select language Early Release on the MMWR website ( ). Faisal Shuaib, DrPH1, Rajni Gunnala, MD2, Emmanuel O. Musa, MBBS3, Frank J. Mahoney, MD2, Olukayode Oguntimehin, MSc4, Patrick M. Nguku, MBChB5, Sara Beysolow Nyanti, MPA6, Nancy Knight, MD7, Nasir Sani Gwarzo, MD1, Oni Idigbe, PhD8, Abdulsalam Nasidi, MD1, John F. Vertefeuille, PhD2 (Author affiliations at end of text) On July 20, 2014, an acutely ill traveler from Li...

With many businesses looking ahead to the prospect of the end of the pandemic and an economic rebound, the opportunity of overseas work is becoming more attractive. However, the pace of recovery will be varied across regions and in Middle East and North Africa (MENA), the dynamics of the pandemic will interact with underlying, structural economic, social and demographic trends and a complex geopolitical environment to produce a challenging landscape for businesses to navigate. To help companies...

Infrastructure, Risk, and Partisanship – Proposed Reform to the National Flood Insurance Program Thomas Wade Executive Summary  The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is the only broadly purchased flood insurance in the United States, but the program is expensive, cumbersome, and outdated, and owes $20.5 billion to Treasury. In April 2021 the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that it would be updating the NFIP’s risk assessment procedures to bring premiums in line with a...