To Russia, with love
Hi! My name’s Nathan and I spent 28 days driving a 15-year old Nissan Micra from London to Ulan-Ude in eastern Russia with my friend Richard this summer as part of The Mongol Rally.
The first thing people ask us (after they’ve said we’re bonkers) is why on earth we decided to do this. Richard has wanted to compete in the Mongol rally since around 2005, and being a caring friend I managed to convince my manager to let me have the time off in order to escort him one-third of the way across the globe.
As a condition of entry, each team must raise a minimum of £1,000 for charity – £500 of which ha...
Source: UNISON Health care news - September 7, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: Rosa Ellis Tags: Blogs charity Members Source Type: news
17 Killed in Warehouse Fire in Russia
MOSCOW (AP) — A fire swept through a Moscow printing plant warehouse on Saturday, killing 17 migrant workers from Kyrgyzstan, Russia's emergency services said. A representative of the Kyrgyz community said the victims were all young women trapped in a dressing room while changing into their work clothes.
The fire was caused by a faulty lamp on the first floor of the warehouse, where many flammable liquids and paper products were stored, and it spread quickly through an elevator shaft to the room where those who died, said Ilya Denisov, who heads the Moscow branch of the emergency services.
He said firefighters foun...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - August 29, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Mass Casualty Incidents Source Type: news
Study highlights crucial ethnic majority-minority divide in Kyrgyzstan
(University of Kansas) Members of minority ethnic groups in Kyrgyzstan, who are often marginalized politically and economically, differ from members of the ethnic majority in their assessment of interethnic relations and their prospects. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - August 20, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Featured Review: Interventions to reduce corruption in the health sector
Scarce evidence, but pointers to promising strategies to fight corruption in health careCorruption can occur in any area of the health sector, and happens when people abuse their own position to bene fit themselves, their organization, or other people close to them. It can take many forms, including bribes, theft, or giving incorrect or inaccurate information deliberately. Healthcare officials, for instance, may steal healthcare funds; hospital administrators may change patient records to incr ease hospital fees; doctors may accept gifts or hospitality from pharmaceutical companies in exchange for using their products...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - August 18, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: mumoquit at cochrane.org Source Type: news
The ride of my life
My muscles are weightless, and my mind is empty. Outside the window, a pair of older Japanese women chat quietly. I close my eyes and breathe in the steam that floats up from the geothermal water beneath me.… knowing I won’t ever again waste a single heartbeat fills me with hope that while the sun is setting on this chapter, it will rise again brighter than ever in my future.
I’m sitting in a natural hot spring in Japan, a centuries-old tradition that is believed to have healing powers. I slide deeper into the onsen in quiet meditation and hope the mineral-rich water is doing what it’s supposed to.
I’m the lu...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - July 25, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Beth Puliti Tags: Our Patients’ Stories BACH Boston Adult Congenital Heart Program congenital heart disease Dr. Sitaram Emani Heart Center Source Type: news
Well: Dean Karnazes Runs the Silk Road
The ultramarathoner will be following the Silk Road for a 12-day, 326-mile journey through the desert and peaks of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - June 28, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: JEN A. MILLER Tags: Marathon Running Silk Road (Ancient Trade Route) State Department Ultramarathon Running Featured Move Source Type: news
Eurasian governments issue new harmonized medical device regulations
By Stewart Eisenhart, Emergo Group
Governments of five Eurasian countries have issued final regulations to establish a harmonized regulatory system for medical devices and IVDs across their respective jurisdictions.
As Emergo reported earlier in 2016, the governments of Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan signed on to a Eurasian Economic Union Agreement, but few additional details of the agreement as it pertained to medical device regulations were available until now.
Emergo consultants in Russia as well as other sources now report that Eurasian Economic Union member states have issued more in-depth requir...
Source: Mass Device - June 10, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: MassDevice Tags: Blog Emergo Group Source Type: news
Zero K by Don DeLillo – profound and beautiful
Mortality is at the heart of this powerful new novel set in a cryonics lab – Don DeLillo’s best work since UnderworldDon DeLillo’s late period work, which we can date from 2001’s The Body Artist, has been marked by novels that are slim, stark, conceptual, and that seem designed to provide as few of the traditional satisfactions of the form as possible. Endings are left untied, characters nameless and one-dimensional, plots thin and haphazard. After maximalist, wholehearted novels such as Libra, White Noise and Underworld, DeLillo’s austere, mindful, laconic late novellas feel, like those of Philip Roth, as if the...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 15, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Alex Preston Tags: Don DeLillo Books Culture Cryonics Medical research Science Source Type: news
The Bottom Line: ‘Zero K’ By Don DeLillo
A new Don DeLillo novel is an event. Whether his acrobatic semiotics lessons help you see the world with new lightness, or strike you as cold and conceptual, it’s hard to look away when the veteran imaginary publishes a new book.
Before his latest effort -- Zero K, a futuristic look at technological advancements, extended life and the ethics that accompany it -- was even released, FX snagged the rights to adapt it for television. Which makes sense, given the story’s sexy-sounding plot: Jeffery Lockhart learns that his distant, billionaire father, Ross, plans to preserve his younger wife’s body until ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - May 4, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Public and communal spaces and their relation to the spatial dynamics of ethnic riots: violence and non-violence in the city of Osh - Kutmanaliev J.
PURPOSE
- This paper is one of the first attempts to explain the local dynamics of the 2010 ethnic riots in Kyrgyzstan. No scholarly work has attempted to systematically analyze the 2010 ethnic violence and its local dynamics on the neighborhood scale... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 1, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Community-Based Prevention Source Type: news
This Is The First Face Astronauts Will See After a Year in Space
In the event you ever find yourself returning to Earth aboard a Soyuz spacecraft, there are surely a lot of faces you’ll want to see when you land. The first one you will see, however, will belong to Sergei Georgievich Malikhov. And you should be very, very glad about that.
Malikhov, 60, is head of search and rescue operations for Energia RSC—the Russian company that builds both the Soyuz spacecraft and the Soyuz rocket—and is the incongruously jolly, incongruously grandfatherly man to whom a SWAT team-like force of helicopter pilots, all-terrain vehicle drivers and rescue workers are answerable on reentr...
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - February 28, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger/ Karaganda, Kazakhstan Tags: Uncategorized A Year In Space Energia Misha Kornienko NASA Roscosmos scott kelly Sergei Malikhov Soyuz Source Type: news
Eurasian countries agree to harmonized medical device framework
By Stewart Eisenhart, Emergo Group
An agreement to establish a harmonized regulatory system for medical devices across Russia and several former Soviet bloc countries has been signed, but few details have thus far been released.
Signatories to the Eurasian Economic Union Agreement include Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia.
Although no governments involved in the proposal have yet released guidance, implementation efforts are expected to last until 2021. Additional details on local-level implementation plans are anticipated for March 2016.
According to Emergo consultants and third-party sources in Russia,...
Source: Mass Device - February 23, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: MassDevice Tags: Blog Emergo Group Source Type: news
Top 10 Mesothelioma News Stories of 2015
We're making progress in the fight against malignant pleural mesothelioma.
Doctors are treating it more aggressively. New drugs are emerging. Survivors are living longer. Therapies are becoming more precise and individualized. And specialty centers are becoming more prominent and comprehensive.
Even the highly criticized U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is taking it more seriously now.
There is growing hope on the horizon.
Here are the most prominent stories of 2015, providing a glimpse of what will come in 2016.
FDA Approves Keytruda and Opdivo for Lung Cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administrati...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - December 31, 2015 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Tim Povtak Tags: Treatment & Doctors Source Type: news
Introducing the Iron Sisters Campaign: Women Empowering Women Through STEM and Business
History teaches us that beneath every glass ceiling is an iron woman, and iron is stronger than glass, especially when one iron woman joins forces with many. I am proud to announce the Iron Sisters Campaign, a movement that will bring together women from around the world who are pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, (STEM) and business to support each other --- learn from each other, encourage each other, and celebrate each other's success to pave the way for future generations of women to succeed in these fields. Working together -- Iron Sisters -- we can eliminate the stereotypes and remove...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - October 14, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Substantial glacier ice loss in Central Asia's largest mountain range
Along the Tien Shan, Central Asia's largest mountain range, glaciers have lost 27 percent of their mass and 18 percent of their area during the last 50 years. Glaciers play an important role in the water cycle of Central Asia. Snow and glacier melt from the Tien Shan is essential for the water supply of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and parts of China. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - August 17, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
