Peruvian Women Still Denied Their Right to Abortion
Yomira Cuadros faced motherhood at an early age, as well as the obstacles of a sexist society like Peru’s, regarding her reproductive decisions. In the apartment where she lives with her family in Lima, she expresses faith in the future, now that she has finally started attending university, after having two children as a result of unplanned pregnancies. CREDIT: Mariela Jara/IPSBy Mariela JaraLIMA, Nov 18 2022 (IPS) No woman in Peru should have to die, have her physical or mental health affected, be treated as a criminal or have an unwanted pregnancy because she does not have access to abortion, said Dr. Rocío Gutiérre...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 18, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Mariela Jara Tags: Active Citizens Civil Society Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Gender Headlines Health Human Rights Latin America & the Caribbean Regional Categories Women's Health Abortion Peru Reproductive and Sexual Rights unsaf Source Type: news
Nuclear reactor inspections impact Mo-99 supplies
A shortage in global supplies of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) and iodine-131 is expecte...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading:
Bolivia opens nuclear medicine research center
Dutch isotope reactor restarts
Isotope shortage expected to last weeks
Polish nuclear reactor fills gap caused by Dutch reactor fault (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - November 1, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Developing Countries Need Monetary Financing
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame SundaramSYDNEY and DAKAR, Nov 1 2022 (IPS) Developing countries have long been told to avoid borrowing from central banks (CBs) to finance government spending. Many have even legislated against CB financing of fiscal expenditure.
Central bank fiscal financing
Such laws are supposedly needed to curb inflation – below 5%, if not 2% – to accelerate growth. These arrangements have also constrained a potential CB developmental role and government ability to respond better to crises.
Anis ChowdhuryImproved monetary-fiscal policy coordination is also needed to achieve desired structural tran...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 1, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Tags: COVID-19 Development & Aid Economy & Trade Featured Financial Crisis Global Headlines Labour TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Jomo Kwame Sundaram & Anis Chowdhury Source Type: news
Africa: Improving Midwifery Capacity and Standards to Curb Death of Mothers and Babies
[WHO-AFRO] Over 70 maternal and child health experts from around the world have concluded a meeting in Freetown aimed at improving midwifery education. The body of experts included health authorities of Sierra Leone, Malawi, Bolivia, Pakistan and India, WHO and other global health partners. Their deliberations focused on finding workable strategies that will help strengthen the quality of midwifery education and training with the to improve standards that will help curb preventable death of mothers and newborn babies (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 2, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Bolivia opens nuclear medicine research center
Bolivia has begun pilot operations at a nuclear research center on the outskirt...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading:
Bruce Power sends first shipment of lutetium-177 to Munich
German scientists develop method for less uranium waste
Dutch isotope reactor restarts
Isotope shortage expected to last weeks
Water leak at Dutch reactor imperils supplies of medical isotopes (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - August 11, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
News at a glance: Debate over classifying research, giant water lilies, and new hummingbird feather colors
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Scientists find new hummingbird colors
The plumage of hummingbirds has more color diversity than the feathers of all other birds combined, a recent study finds. Researchers from Yale University collected feathers from specimens of 114 hummingbird species and, using a spectrometer, documented the wavelengths of light they reflected. These wavelengths were then compared with those found in a previous study of 111 other bird species, including penguins and parrots. The researchers were surprised to find new colors in the hummers, which widened the known avian color gamut by 56% and included rare...
Source: ScienceNOW - July 6, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
Newly identified waterlily species is world ’s largest
Leaves of species grown at Kew Gardens can reach up to three metres in the wildA giant waterlily grown at Kew Gardens has been named as new to science, in the first discovery of its type in more than a century.Scientists at the south-west London garden suspected for decades there could be a third species of giant waterlily and worked with researchers in its native home in Bolivia to see if their thesis was correct.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 4, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Helena Horton Environment reporter Tags: Plants Environment Science Biology Source Type: news
Bolivian ex-president Jeanine Áñez jailed as leader of ‘coup’
Court finds rightwinger defied constitution during chaotic exit of Evo Morales, from whom she took over presidency #rightwinger #bolivian #jeanineáñez #evomorales #coup (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 11, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Legislation on violence against women in politics, a pioneer policy on gender equality - Casta ño P.
This chapter analyses the pioneering Bolivian legislation on violence against women in politics (VAWP), and how it influenced other legislative initiatives to tackle this form of gender-based violence in Latin America. First of all, I explain the ongoing d... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 30, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Violence and Weapons Issues Source Type: news
U.S. FDA grants priority review to Roche ’s Actemra/RoActemra for the treatment of COVID-19 in hospitalised adults
If approved,Actemra/RoActemra would be the first U.S. FDA-approvedimmunomodulator for the treatment of COVID-19 inhospitalised patientsSince the beginning of the pandemic, more than one million peoplehospitalised with COVID-19 have been treated withActemra/RoActemra worldwide1Actemra/RoActemra is approved for the treatment of COVID-19 in many territories including the European UnionRoche has established a comprehensive access approach to improve availability ofActemra/RoActemra around the worldBasel, 04 April 2022 - Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has acce...
Source: Roche Investor Update - April 4, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
U.S. FDA grants priority review to Roche ’s Actemra/RoActemra for the treatment of COVID-19 in hospitalised adults
If approved,Actemra/RoActemra would be the first U.S. FDA-approvedimmunomodulator for the treatment of COVID-19 inhospitalised patientsSince the beginning of the pandemic, more than one million peoplehospitalised with COVID-19 have been treated withActemra/RoActemra worldwide1Actemra/RoActemra is approved for the treatment of COVID-19 in many territories including the European UnionRoche has established a comprehensive access approach to improve availability ofActemra/RoActemra around the worldBasel, 04 April 2022 - Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has acce...
Source: Roche Media News - April 4, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
A New Report Shows the True COVID-19 Death Toll May Be Three Times Higher Than We Thought
More than 6 million people have died from COVID-19 worldwide, according to official counts. But the more comprehensive toll, tallying deaths directly or indirectly attributable to COVID-19, may be three times higher, according to a new study published in the Lancet.
“We can confidently say that the pandemic has killed an extra 18.2 million people,” says Dr. Chris Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics at the University of Washington and a co-author of the paper.
Those 18.2 million people represent what epidemiologists refer to as “excess deaths,” or the additional number of people who...
Source: TIME: Health - March 11, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Rates of dementia are 11 times lower in Amazonian tribe with 'healthiest hearts ever studied'
Experts have found rates of dementia are 11 times lower among the indigenous hunter-gatherer Tsimane community in the Bolivian Amazon, compared to westerners. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 9, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Approved COVID-19 vaccines and countries and territories with approved proof of vaccination, Department for Transport and DHSC (updated 7th December 2021)
Approved vaccines and list of countries and territories with approved COVID-19 proof of vaccination for travel to England.
7 December 2021Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Latvia and Ukraine can use EU DCC to add proof of vaccination status in the UK passenger locator form.
22 November 2021Belarus, Bolivia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, the Faroe Islands, Laos, Libya, Malawi, Mozambique, Samoa, Senegal, Vanuatu, Zambia and Zimbabwe added to the list of countries and territories with approved proof of vaccination for travel to England. Sinovac-CoronaVac, Sinopharm Beijing and Covaxin ...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - December 7, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Can youth empowerment programs reduce violence against girls during the COVID-19 pandemic? - Gulesci S, Puente-Beccar M, Ubfal D.
This paper shows that a youth empowerment program in Bolivia reduced the reported prevalence of violence against girls during the COVID-19 lockdown. The program offered training in soft skills and technical skills, sexual education, mentoring and job-findi... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 8, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news