Changes to U.S. data collection on race, ethnicity could be a boon to public health
Inresponse to the nation ’s growing diversity, the Biden administration announced March 28 that the government willchange how it collects information about people ’s race and ethnicity. The revisions, the first in nearly three decades, are aimed at creating more accurate and inclusive data to better inform policymaking, legal research efforts to address health disparities.Ninez Ponce, director of theUCLA Center for Health Policy Research, said it was a landmark day for people who work on health data. “As our society evolves to become ever more multicultural and multiethnic,” she said, “these new rules are a cruci...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - March 29, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
COVID's Silver Lining; 'I Could Kill Someone'; Measles or MMR Detection?
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The COVID-19 pandemic has a scientific silver lining: a rare opportunity to watch our immune system develop defenses against a novel pathogen in real time. (STAT... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - March 29, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Heart-Scarring Detected Over 1 Year After COVID-19 Vaccination: Studies
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Heart scarring was detected more than one year after COVID-19 vaccination in some people who suffered myocarditis following receipt of a shot, researchers…#zacharystieber #epochtimes #pfizer #sydney #lge #australian #andrewtaylor #alfredhospital #melbourne #moderna (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Africa: TB - No Longer the Forgotten Pandemic?
[Global Fund] For far too long, TB has been "the forgotten pandemic": killing millions, but attracting a tiny fraction of the attention and resources that have been devoted to COVID-19 or even HIV. Yet now the fight against TB has remarkable momentum. In many countries, the setbacks from COVID-19 have already been more than reversed. With advancements in TB prevention, diagnosis and treatment tools, with significant reductions in the prices of some key interventions, and with the confidence brought on by strong (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - March 29, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa Health and Medicine Tuberculosis Source Type: news
Africa: Faith-Based Partners Voice Support for Pandemic Accord
[WHO] Faith communities and faith-based organizations (FBOs) are integral to the provision of comprehensive health care in many countries, including national responses to pandemics. In some countries, a significant proportion of healthcare is delivered by FBOs. Critical roles played by faith partners during the COVID-19 pandemic included inpatient care, community education and engagement to prevent transmission and build confidence in vaccines and advocacy, as well as calling for equity in access to vaccines (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 29, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Africa External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Religion Source Type: news
Tuberculosis Is the Highest It ’ s Been in a Decade
NEW YORK — The number of U.S. tuberculosis cases in 2023 were the highest in a decade, according to a new government report.
Forty states reported an increase in TB, and rates were up among all age groups, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. More than 9,600 cases were reported, a 16% increase from 2022 and the highest since 2013.
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Cases declined sharply at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, but have been rising since.
Most U.S. TB cases are diagnosed in people born in other countries. Experts say the 2023 number is in part a combinat...
Source: TIME: Health - March 28, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mike Stobbe/AP Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
News at a glance: Domestic U.S. postdocs, edited pig organs, and the Milky Way ’s central black hole
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South Korea joins Horizon Europe
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol (center) and EU leaders announced a research funding deal.
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South Korea will participate in the €95.5 billion ($104 billion) Horizon Europe R&D program, the first East Asian country to do so, the European Commission announced last week. South Korean scientists will compete for grants on an equal footing with their European counterparts; in return, South Korea will contribute an as-yet-undisclosed amount to the 7-year program, which expires in 20...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 28, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Measuring the impact of COVID-19 policies on local commute traffic: evidence from mobile data in Northern California - Wang BS, Rodnyansky S, Boarnet MG, Comandon A.
The COVID-19 pandemic upended the world economy and significantly altered how people work by imposing limits on in-person interactions. The policy response in places like California illustrate a range of scenarios that are applicable more broadly, from str... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 28, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Pedestrians and Bicycles Source Type: news
Evaluating transit mode choice in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic - a stated preference approach - Pollock S, Devasurendra KW, Weiss A, de Barros A, Wirasinghe SC, Kattan L.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying restrictions reduced travel demand globally. Public transit ridership was significantly affected, causing transit agencies to lose fare revenue and reduce service. Although transit ridership has recovered signific... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 28, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Pedestrians and Bicycles Source Type: news
Enhancing flood-response commuting resilience via driving mechanism investigation: new evidence from Wuhan, China - Chen H, Zhang H, Tong Z, Jing Y, Zhang L, Liu S, Zhang Y, Chen C, Liu Y.
In the context of climate change, transportation resilience to flood threats has received significant attention. However, measures to improve practical resilience have not been addressed and elucidated. Various studies from the domains of disaster and tran... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 28, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news
CDC: Latest COVID Vax Cuts Hospitalization Risk in Immunocompromised People
(MedPage Today) -- For adults who are immunocompromised, the updated 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine reduced risk of hospitalization compared with not getting the shot, according to CDC data.
Vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization was 38% in... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - March 28, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
First-time buyers need this much to afford a starter home
First-time homebuyers have to earn nearly twice as much money to purchase a starter home compared with pre-COVID-19 pandemic times. As of February, first time buyers needed to earn $75,849 annually to afford the typical U.S. starter home, which is nearly $6,000 more than they did a year ago, due…#redfin #elijahdelacampa #delacampa (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 28, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Kenya: Health Ministry Attributes Increased Cases of Respiratory Infections to Influenza
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Ministry of Health has attributed the surge in respiratory illnesses to an increase in influenza infections and not COVID-19. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 28, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: East Africa Health and Medicine Kenya Source Type: news
Kate Middleton Had to Tell Her Kids About Her Cancer Diagnosis. These Parents Know What That ’ s Like
After weeks of fevered speculation, Catherine, Princess of Wales, revealed on Mar. 22 that she was absent from the public eye not because she was having marital problems or growing out a bad haircut, but because she was being treated for cancer. She and her husband had, she said, “taken time to explain everything to George, Charlotte and Louis in a way that is appropriate for them, and to reassure them that I am going to be OK.” Even before her announcement, however, many cancer survivors who were also parents had already guessed at the truth. The silence and delay tactics looked familiar, because they had done...
Source: TIME: Health - March 28, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Belinda Luscombe Tags: Uncategorized Cancer Source Type: news
Working from home, active travel, health and wellbeing: legacies of a pandemic - Greaves S, Beck M, Cobbold A, Standen C, Rissel C, Crane M.
While many studies have explored the impact of COVID-19 and/or working from home (WFH) on the transport network and modal choice, relatively few have looked at the implications of WFH through the lens of physical activity (PA) and the role of active travel... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 28, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
