Labor trafficking in marijuana production: a hidden epidemic in the shadows of the cannabis industry - Prakash J, Erickson TB, MacGibbon M, Stoklosa H.
Labor trafficking in marijuana production remains a concealed epidemic within the expanding cannabis industry. This abstract brings attention to the systemic exploitation of vulnerable individuals engaged in cultivating, harvesting, and processing cannabis... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 1, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Consulting firm McKinsey to pay $78M in U.S. opioid settlement with health insurers, company benefit plans
Consulting firm McKinsey & Co. has agreed to pay $78 million to settle claims by U.S. health insurers and benefit plans that its work with drug companies helped fuel an epidemic of opioid addiction. The settlement, disclosed in documents filed on Friday in federal court in San Francisco, must…#mckinseyco #nativeamerican #mckinsey #purduepharma #oxycontin #paulgeller #ussupremecourt (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
7 things from 2023 we are so over: Bye-bye, Barbie
All things Barbie, going pantless, humungo Stanley Cup bottles and pressure tipping. There’s plenty from 2023 to leave behind come the new year. Extreme weather hit historic heights. Fakeness took a huge turn with the rise of AI. The rudeness epidemic continued with the help of FaceTime. Here’s a…#stanleycup #parishilton #britneyspears #pierpaolopiccioli #valentino #nickiminaj #barbz #barbenheimer #oppenheimer #bigbarbie (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Zombie Deer Found In Yellowstone As Epidemic Spreads: ‘Slow-Moving Disaster’ With ‘Huge Ecological Implications’
A deer corpse found in Yellowstone National Park is the area’s first discovered case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), which is sometimes called “zombie deer” disease, and the high profile locale is drawing needed national attention to a nationwide epidemic, scientists say. It is a highly…#yellowstone #cwd #kentucky #tennessee #fishwildlifeservice #thomasroffe #guardian #michaelosterholm #dr #coryanderson (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Alone Time vs. Loneliness: What ’s a Good Balance?
What's a good balance between having "me time" – being alone – and loneliness, which is already at epidemic levels? Here's how to find the sweet spot. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - December 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Could tailored AI robots help alleviate the loneliness epidemic?
The company behind the robot claims more than 90 per cent of its users report lower levels of loneliness. Loneliness is an epidemic that touches millions of people across Europe. With a recent European Commission report finding at least one in 10 European Union residents are lonely most of the…#loneliness #europeancommission #elliq #joyceloaiza #deannadezern #mariebroadbent #janworrell #dorskuler #israeli #julianneholtlunstad (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
An epidemic of sexual abuse in schools
Andrea Bruce; Chona Kasinger; Maddie McGarvey; Kim Raff; Matt Williams; Rebecca Zisser/Business Insider The documents began arriving last fall, first in a trickle, then a flood. Emoji-filled text messages from teachers, handwritten complaints from students in the rounded script of teenage girls,…#andreabruce #chonakasinger #maddiemcgarvey #kimraff #mattwilliams #enosburgfalls #vermont #utah #sterrettoneyneale #neale (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Tufts' top psychiatrist: 'Dementia is the epidemic of our time'
Dr. Brent Forester, psychiatrist-in-chief at Tufts Medicine, says hospitals must prepare for a flood of mental health and dementia patients in coming years. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - December 21, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Cassie McGrath Source Type: news
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the radical behavior and armed conflict escalation risks: case of Donbas (east Ekraine) warfare - Kostyuchenko Y, Pushkar V, Malysheva O, Yuschenko M.
The paper considers the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic to the behavior of militants of illegal armed groups and the population in the militant-controlled territories. The study was conducted on the example of the territories of self-proclaimed "L/DPR" wit... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 21, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Rwanda: Akagera Medicines Secures U.S.$1.5 Million to Improve Access to Vaccines
[New Times] Rwandan-owned Akagera Medicines and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) have entered a new partnership of $1.46 million (approx. Rwf1.83 billion) to improve vaccine delivery and accessibility in Africa. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 20, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Central Africa East Africa Health and Medicine Rwanda Source Type: news
Africa: Loneliness Is a Major Public Health Problem - and Young People Are Bearing the Brunt of It
[The Conversation Africa] Writing in the Week, journalist Theara Coleman has declared 2023 "the year of the loneliness epidemic". In May, the US surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, said loneliness posed a public health risk on a par with smoking and drinking. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 19, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Children and Youth Health and Medicine Source Type: news
Prevalence of workplace violence in Chinese obstetric nurses under the new situation and its correlation with violence prevention knowledge-attitude-practice and climate perception: a cross-sectional study - Huang S, Zhai J, Lu X, Liang Y, Li Q, Lilenga HS.
BACKGROUND: Workplace violence severely impacts individual nurses. With the three-child opening policy of China and the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic in the recently years, obstetric nurses face the double attack of heavy workload and staffing shortage. ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Occupational Issues Source Type: news
When Should We Consider A Rickettsial Disease?
Discussion
Rickettsioses are “small, obligate intracellular, gram-negative, aerobic coccobacillary α-proeobacteria” from the genuses Rickettsia, Anaplasma, Coxiella, Ehrlichia, and Orientia genuses. Often they cause limited health problems but can cause severe disease and death. They present with a fever and other non-specific signs and symptoms, usually with a rash and lymphadenopathy. Other problems can include:
Cardiac – endocarditis, myocarditis, pericarditis
Gastrointestinal – abdominal pain, acute abdomen, cholecystitis, hepatitis, pancreatitis
Heme/Lymph – hemophagocytosis, lymph...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - December 18, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Gao Yaojie, Chinese doctor and Aids activist, 1927-2023
The gynaecologist fought for victims of the HIV epidemic spurred by Henan province’s rapacious ‘blood economy’#henanprovinces (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How bad is the drug epidemic in YOUR state? Overdose deaths have risen in EVERY part of the US in the past year and by up to 40% in some areas, new CDC data shows
The drug epidemic plaguing America is showing no signs of slowing down, as new data reveals deadly overdoses continued to rise over the past year - setting the US up for a new record. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
