European Duplicity Undermines Anti-Pandemic Efforts
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame SundaramSYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 20 2021 (IPS) Despite facing the world’s worst pandemic of the last century, rich countries in the World Trade Organization (WTO) have blocked efforts to enable more affordable access to the means to fight the pandemic.
Everyone knows access for all to the means for testing, treatment and prevention – including diagnostic tests, therapeutic medicines, personal protective equipment and vaccines – is crucial.
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In October 2020, South Africa and India requested the WTO to temporarily suspend relevant provisions of its Agre...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 20, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Tags: Aid Development & Aid Economy & Trade Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations Jomo Kwame Sundaram & Anis Chowdhury Source Type: news
How Climate Change Science Has Changed Due to COVID-19 Restrictions
In late 2019, expeditioners and guides Hilde Falun and Sunniva Sorby went to Norway’s remote Svalbard archipelago to complete a long-term goal of being the first female team to over winter in the Arctic. But the pair’s planned return home to mainland Norway coincided with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and pretty quickly they found themselves stranded. There had been plans for a ship carrying friends and family to come and collect them as the ice began to melt in March, but travel restrictions got in the way, and they couldn’t come home until September.
So instead, they spent the winter and much of sp...
Source: TIME: Science - July 14, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Jennifer Duggan Tags: Uncategorized climate change COVID-19 Source Type: news
How Climate Change Science Has Changed Due to COVID-19 Restrictions
In late 2019, expeditioners and guides Hilde Falun and Sunniva Sorby went to Norway’s remote Svalbard archipelago to complete a long-term goal of being the first female team to over winter in the Arctic. But the pair’s planned return home to mainland Norway coincided with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and pretty quickly they found themselves stranded. There had been plans for a ship carrying friends and family to come and collect them as the ice began to melt in March, but travel restrictions got in the way, and they couldn’t come home until September.
So instead, they spent the winter and much of sp...
Source: TIME: Health - July 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jennifer Duggan Tags: Uncategorized climate change COVID-19 Source Type: news
The Only Way for the U.S. to Reach Herd Immunity Is With COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates
To encourage more people to get a COVID-19 vaccine and reach herd immunity, U.S. government leaders and their corporate partners are now dangling many carrots to hesitant Americans. Free childcare, free car rides, even free beer has been offered. But new evidence is emerging in places like Ohio where, after state health authorities set up a lottery offering millions of dollars to people who got the jab, vaccination rates flatlined after an initial bump.
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According to our analysis of Ipsos polling, such incentives won’t persuade about a quarter of American adults. And accord...
Source: TIME: Health - July 12, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Clifford A. Young and Justin Gest Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
FDA clears Carrot's smoking cessation sensor to be used without doctor oversight
The sensor was designed to be used in conjunction with a corresponding app. (Source: mobihealthnews)
Source: mobihealthnews - July 12, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Why suggesting mandatory Covid vaccines is an ethical minefield | Melinda Mills
It ’s not only the UK’s public sector that is mulling compulsory jabs. Often the carrot can be more powerful than the stickLast week we learned of a government consultation expected to announcemandatory Covid-19 vaccinations for care home staff, and possibly NHS staff too. This sparked debate as to the ethics and legality of such a move, not to mention the strain it could put on an already beleaguered workforce. A number of stakeholders opposed the move, from NHS providers to the British Medical Association. But it is not just the healthcare sector that is weighing up such considerations: arecent survey in the US and U...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 22, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Melinda Mills Tags: Vaccines and immunisation Coronavirus Health Infectious diseases Science Society UK news Work & careers World news Source Type: news
Bill Gates uses farmland as an investment outlet buying up potato, carrot and onion farms
Gates does not appear to count his farming investments as the nation’s largest farmland owner as part of his broader strategy to save... (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 10, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
2021 Health Care Heroes: Carrot Health CEO harnesses power of data to improve health care for all
Kurt Waltenbaugh is founder and CEO of Carrot Health, a software company he launched in 2014 that analyzes consumer health care data. He believes that data can and should be used to eliminate the barriers keeping people from leading healthier lives. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - June 7, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Mollee Francisco Source Type: news
Biden: Speak softly and carry a big carrot
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Source: Reuters: Health - June 4, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The CDC ’s New Mask Guidance May Be Motivating People to Get Vaccinated—But Not for the Reason You Might Think
As demand for vaccinations drops in the U.S., states are turning to increasingly dramatic measures—Dinner with the governor! Multi-million-dollar lotteries!—to convince people to get their shots. But perhaps the boldest incentive yet has come from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which said on May 13 that fully vaccinated people can go maskless, inside and out. The CDC is essentially dangling a carrot: if you get your shot, you can have your regular life back.
Lots of experts have questioned whether that strategy will work, and some argue it will backfire. After all, the policy is almo...
Source: TIME: Health - May 26, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
Casinos place big bet on vaccinations as Las Vegas prepares for June 1 reopening and nation’s first large convention
Resorts drive up employee vaccination rates by using carrots, such as Dave Chappelle tickets and spa vouchers, as well as sticks. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - May 24, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Laurie McGinley Source Type: news
All carrot, 'no stick' in Biden's affordable housing plan
The housing component of the president's massive infrastructure proposal envisions communities voluntarily changing regulations to... (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 3, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Carrot Health using voting records, home data to gauge health
The secret to good health? Get enough sleep, eat well — and maybe vote regularly, according to Carrot Health, a Minneapolis firm that's working to better understand what are often called the social determinants of health. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - April 2, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Carrigan Miller Source Type: news
Consumer Health: What is a glycemic index diet?
The glycemic index is a system of assigning a number to carbohydrate-containing foods according to how much each food increases blood sugar. Examples of foods with low, middle and high glycemic index values include the following: Low: Green vegetables, most fruits, raw carrots, kidney beans, chickpeas, lentils and bran breakfast cerealsMedium: Sweet corn; bananas; raw pineapple; raisins; oat breakfast [...] (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - March 25, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Pregnant Asylum-Seekers Needed Help at the Border. Inside the Program That Provided Care —and Community
Xiomara was already having labor pains when she presented herself to U.S. Border Patrol officials to make a claim for asylum. She had fled gang violence in El Salvador six months earlier, working under the table in Mexico to afford bus tickets for her and her three young children to make it to the border. When she finally arrived, nine months pregnant and feeling contractions, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) offered to take her to a hospital. But she had heard about family separations and was worried about losing her kids if she were hospitalized, so instead she was sent back to the streets of Ciudad Juárez...
Source: TIME: Health - March 3, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jasmine Aguilera Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 feature Immigration Magazine Women in Crisis Source Type: news
