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  • World Malaria Day

    World Malaria Day

    On April 21, the world will step up its fight against malaria through campaigns on: Descriptors related to the disease,…

  • Subheadings: pathol, physiopathol & physiol

    Subheadings: pathol, physiopathol & physiol

    The DeCS tip for this post refers to the qualifiers pathology (PATHOL), physiopathology (PHYSIOPATHOL), and physiology (PHYSIOL), which are often…

  • 2025 edition update

    2025 edition update

    Join the online launch of DeCS 2025 edition on DeCS/MeSH website on April 3 at 11:00 a.m. (GMT-3). The event…

  • World Water Day

    World Water Day

    Since 1993, the United Nations has celebrated 22 March as World Water Day to raise awareness of the 2.2 billion…

  • World Women’s Day

    World Women’s Day

    The United Nations (UN) officially declared March 8 as International Women’s Day, as an action aimed at combating gender discrimination…

  • World Hearing Day

    World Hearing Day

    Hearing health is observed every year on March 3. In the WHO Region of the Americas, approximately 21.52% of the…

  • MeSH Class 3 descriptors: “check tags”

    MeSH Class 3 descriptors: “check tags”

    Virtually every biomedical article will describe subjects of research (human or animal; mice or rats, etc). Clinical articles will describe…

  • Omics sciences

    Omics sciences

    When navigating the hierarchy under the descriptor Genomics, one finds a set of descriptors that have something in common: the…

  • World Cancer Day

    World Cancer Day

    PAHO is working with countries in the Americas to reduce premature deaths from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including cancer, by 25%…

  • World Leprosy Day

    World Leprosy Day

    Leprosy is one of the 30 diseases or conditions that the PAHO Elimination Initiative aims to overcome in the countries…

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