India allows cough syrup firm linked to Uzbek deaths to re-open factory
India's Uttar Pradesh state has allowed Marion Biotech's factory, linked to cough syrups causing child deaths, to resume most production. The World Health Organization (WHO) had linked Marion's syrups to the deaths of 141 children in Uzbekistan, Gambia, and Cameroon. The state drug controller stated that there were no known quality issues with other medicines produced by Marion. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - October 11, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Why the NBA ’s MVP Chose to Be an American in Paris
As a teenager in Cameroon, Joel Embiid never imagined he would one day take a call from the president of France, asking him to play Olympic basketball for Les Bleus, not the United States. But this summer, the NBA’s reigning Most Valuable Player picked up his phone and heard Emmanuel Macron on the…#cameroon #joelembiid #lesbleus #nba #mostvaluableplayer #emmanuelmacron (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
India reveals more toxic syrups months after poisoning deaths
Indian drug regulator has discovered that cough syrup and anti-allergy syrup manufactured by Norris Medicines are toxic, containing contaminants diethylene glycol (DEG) or ethylene glycol (EG). The same contaminants were found in Indian-made cough syrups that caused the deaths in Gambia, Uzbekistan and Cameroon since the middle of last year. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - October 4, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Traumatic brain injury in Cameroon: a prospective observational study in a Level I trauma centre - Buh FC, Sumbele IUN, Maas AIR, Motah M, Pattisapu JV, Youm E, Meh BK, Kobeissy FH, Wang KW, Hutchinson PJA, Taiwe GS.
Background and Objective: About 14 million people will likely suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI) per year by 2050 in sub-Saharan Africa. Studying TBI characteristics and their relation to outcomes can identify initiatives to improve TBI prevention and c... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Population resilience to flooding in the urbanised mangrove of Douala, Cameroon - Safougne Djomekui BL, Yemmafouo A.
This study aims to understand the mechanisms that contribute to the construction of the resilience of populations to urban flooding. It therefore proposes to analyse the strategies and attitudes developed by households subjected to floods to mainta... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news
Prevalence and associated factors of non-medical use of prescription drugs among adolescents in secondary schools in Buea, Cameroon: a cross-sectional study - Nkouonlack C, Shifu IN, Atchou JGB, Eyoum C, Dinayen DY, Nsagha DS, Njamnshi AK.
BACKGROUND: The non-medical use of prescription drugs is a growing public health problem worldwide. Recent trends in Cameroon show that the use of psychoactive substances, among which are prescription drugs by adolescents is becoming a public health issue ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 27, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Pope Francis moved as Reuters photographer shows him child migrant picture
[1/3] Reuters photographer Yara Nardi shows Pope Francis the photo of a child from Cameroon that she took at a reception center for irregular migrants on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa on September 15, 2023, during a trip on the occasion of the Mediterranean Meetings (MED 2023) in France, aboard…#yaranardi #cameroon #sicilian #med2023 #rome #church #marseilles #libyan #italian #claudinensoe (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Americas ’ first cowboys were enslaved Africans, ancient cow DNA suggests
Think “cowboy,” and you might picture John Wayne riding herd across the U.S. West. But the first cowboys lived in Mexico and the Caribbean, and
most of them were Black
.
That’s the conclusion of a recent analysis of DNA from 400-year-old cow bones excavated on the island of Hispaniola and at sites in Mexico. The work, published in
Scientific Reports
, also provides evidence that African cattle made it to the Americas at least a century earlier than historians realized.
The timing of these African imports—to the early 1600s—suggests the growth of cattle herds may have been connecte...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 22, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Military Seizes Power In OPEC Nation Gabon As Wave Of Coups Sweep Africa
Following last month's military takeover in Niger, a group of senior Gabonese military officers announced on national television they were seizing power in the central African nation, overturning results in a disputed…#niger #gabonese #african #opec #gabon24 #africa #cameroon #equatorialguinea #republicofcongo #centralafrica (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cameroon: Reports of Polio Outbreak After Largest Vaccination Programme Since 2020
[VOA] Yaounde -- Cameroon officials say a fifth case of polio was reported in the capital, Yaounde, this week, despite the launching of a new polio vaccination campaign in the central African country and its neighbors. Health officials are increasing surveillance and encouraging parents, many of whom still resist vaccination programs, to have their children inoculated. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - August 30, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Cameroon Central Africa Health and Medicine Polio West Africa Source Type: news
Chronic Kidney Disease Is Poised To Become The Black Lung of Climate Change
It’s official. July was the world’s hottest month on record, scientists from the European climate monitoring agency confirmed on Aug. 8, a full 1.5°C (2.7°F) warmer than pre-industrial averages, offering a potent taste of what is to come in a world made hotter by climate change. The wildfires and heat waves that wreathed much of the northern hemisphere in smoke this summer? Expect more of the same. The surge in deaths and hospitalization from heat stress and stroke? Ditto. An increase in chronic kidney disease of non-traditional origin? Yup. Wait, what?
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Source: TIME: Health - August 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Aryn Baker Tags: Uncategorized climate change Climate Is Everything healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
International declarations and laws to mitigate gender base violence for women and men with highlights on Cameroon situation - Tihnje AM, Godwill A, Ernestine BF.
Laws and legislation significantly influence actions in societies to control rates of gender-based violence (GBV). Most domestic laws are developed from international declarations and conventions. This paper reviews declarations, policies, and laws enacted... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 7, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
The ramification of Cameroon's Anglophone crisis: conceptual analysis of a looming "Complex Disaster Emergency" - Bang HN, Balgah RA.
One of Africa's newest struggles for liberation: Cameroon's Anglophone crisis, which emerged from legal and education grievances in 2016, rapidly escalated into a secessionist political conflict that is threatening the unity of the country, with potential ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 5, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news
Kordofan giraffes face local extinction if poaching continues
Poaching of two Critically Endangered Kordofan giraffes per year could result in extinction in just 15 years within Cameroon ’ s B é nou é National Park without intervention. These are the alarming new findings of a University of Bristol and Bristol Zoological Society-led study published in the African Journal of Ecology. (Source: University of Bristol news)
Source: University of Bristol news - August 4, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Research, International, Postgraduate; Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Bristol Veterinary School; Press Release Source Type: news
India finds lapses at cough syrup maker linked to Cameroon deaths
India has found violations related to manufacturing and laboratory practices at drugmaker Riemann Labs, whose cough syrup was linked to child deaths in Cameroon, a government health official told Reuters on Wednesday. Riemann Labs is the fourth Indian cough syrup maker to stop production after regulators found lapses. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - August 2, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
