The Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Threat To Global Health?
Lost in the political discussions over the passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)—a trade agreement currently being negotiated in secret between the U.S. and 11 other Pacific-Rim nations—is the very real negative impact it would have on global health.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) works in over 60 countries, and our medical teams rely on access to affordable medicines and vaccines. We are deeply concerned that the TPP, in its current form, will lock-in high, unsustainable drug prices, block or delay the availability of affordable generic medicines, and price millions of people...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 8, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Deane Marchbein Tags: Drugs and Medical Technology Equity and Disparities Featured Global Health Public Health Doctors Without Borders fair trade generic drugs obama trade deal TPP Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership Source Type: blogs
Health Care Equity Needed To Fight Ebola
Many of us have felt helpless watching the devastation caused by Ebola in West Africa, which has killed nearly 11,000, and sickened thousands more. After a disgracefully sluggish start to the international aid response, Liberia has celebrated a milestone with no new cases for five consecutive weeks, and there have been no new health worker infections for the last two weeks. However, Sierra Leone and Guinea are still fighting to eradicate the disease.
Faced with the daunting realities of the Ebola epidemic, health care professionals across the U.S. raised their collective voice to advocate for equity as a key weapon again...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Andrea Christopher Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Global Health Health Professionals Public Health Africa Ebola Health Care Spending health equality health equity infectious disease Millennium Development Goals mortality Vaccine WHO Source Type: blogs
On The Pulse - 01st May 2015
Vaccine offers partial protection against malaria (Source: OnMedica Blogs)
Source: OnMedica Blogs - May 1, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: blogs
Does Public Health Have A Future?
Ebola’s arrival in the U.S. hit Americans with a jolt. Regardless of how you feel about the response to date, it should remind everyone of the importance of public health.
Fortunately, public health in the U.S. has built an extraordinary track record of success. Smallpox, one of the most dreaded diseases in history, was eradicated worldwide. New vaccines have sharply cut the toll of deaths and disabilities from H flu meningitis, tetanus, pneumococcal sepsis and other deadly diseases.
Adding folate to foods dramatically reduced neural tube defects in newborns. Safer cars and better roadway designs cut fatal crashes per m...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - December 10, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Arthur Kellermann and Mark Kortepeter Tags: All Categories Environmental Health Prevention Public Health Source Type: blogs
Ebola update - two being tested in the UK
The Guardian is reporting in not a lot of detail that two children are being tested in Newcastle upon Tyne for Ebola and malaria, as a precautionary measure. They have arrived from Africa but it is not clear where, and Public Health England are of the opinion that Ebola is very unlikely.The Guardian is also reporting that trials of a vaccine look promising, according to the manufacturer.Here might be a good time and place to mention the BMJ's news piece from a few weeks ago reminding NHS staff to be on the lookout for Ebola. The news item refers to a BMJ letter from Bruce Keogh. Access to the BMJ's c...
Source: Browsing - November 28, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: Ebola Source Type: blogs
Bill Gates Recognizes the Improving State of Humanity
Chelsea German
With the newspapers full of crises, it can be hard to maintain a proper perspective on the progress humanity has made, and to remember that there are individuals striving every day to make the world a better place. In a recent interview, businessman and philanthropist Bill Gates discussed the improving state of humanity, and the work that he is doing through private charity to help those in need. He said,
I think the idea that people are worried about problems, like climate change or terrorism or these challenges of the future, that’s okay. But boy, they really lose perspective of what’s happened ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 23, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Chelsea German Source Type: blogs
500 Days And Counting: Critical Steps In The Countdown To Achieving MDG 6
Editor’s note: For more on global health, see the September issue of Health Affairs.
We are now less than 500 days away from December 31, 2015, the target date for reaching the world’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG). This includes MDG 6, the goal of combatting HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases.
Astonishing progress has been made to date (as mentioned previously in our Health Affairs Blog post): AIDS-related deaths have fallen 35 percent since their peak in 2005; global mortality from tuberculosis has fallen by 45 percent since 1990; and global malaria mortality rates dropped 42 percent globally between 200...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - October 6, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Deb Derrick and Peter Yeo Tags: All Categories Global Health Public Health Source Type: blogs
India Holds Bill Gates Accountable For His Vaccine Crimes
Conclusion
It is difficult to believe that, despite the mounting evidence outlining the many crimes against humanity that have been committed by the Gates Foundation, GAVI, UNICEF and PATH, Bill Gates is portrayed as a hero among many.
However, according to the definition of hero in the Oxford Dictionary, the word hero means:
“A person, typically a man, who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities.” [12]
The dictionary I used said nothing about vaccinating innocent, vulnerable children with untested and unsafe vaccinations, causing them to suffer agonizing, untimely deaths.
&nbs...
Source: vactruth.com - October 5, 2014 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Gardasil Death Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) MenAfriVac Source Type: blogs
No #AAAS and ASM you do not deserve good PR for freeing up a few papers on Ebola
Saw a PR from AAAS about how they were freeing up all of ~ 20 papers on Ebola In light of what has become the largest Ebola outbreak on record, Science and Science Translational Medicine have compiled over a decade's worth of their published news and research. Researchers and the general public can now view this special collection for free.OK. More access is good. But alas, they did not even free up all papers in #AAAS journals with Ebola in the Title or Abstract.And then I started thinking. What about HIV? TB? Malaria? And as I started Tweeting about this, I saw that ASM also was hopping on the "free Ebola" bandwago...
Source: The Tree of Life - August 20, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Forthcoming Conferences June 2014
June 01 - 05, 2014 6th Singapore International Water Week SIWWSingapore, Singapore Further informationJointly organised by the International Water Association (IWA) and PUB, Singapore's national water agency.Suggested reading: Applications of Molecular Microbiological Methods Microbial Ecological Theory Foodborne and Waterborne Bacterial Pathogens June 01 - 06, 2014 BiopolymersNewport, RI, USA Further informationGordon Research Conference. Biopolymers. Mechanisms of Biomolecular Interactions: From Physical Principles to Biological Insights.Suggested reading: ...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - May 14, 2014 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs
Media release: Travel-acquired infections and illnesses in Canadians: surveillance report
This study, then, provides information that until now we have had to infer from travel-acquired illness in other groups.
The study uncovered a number of surprises for travelling Canadians and Canadian immigrants. For example, travel to visit friends and relatives carries a particularly high risk of illness. Serious diseases, like malaria, malaria or enteric fever, are in fact common imported illnesses. And diseases significant to public health, like hepatitis B and tuberculosis, are common as well among returning travellers.
“In order to maximize opportunities for prevention of these types of potentially serious infectio...
Source: Open Medicine Blog - - February 11, 2014 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: Carlyn Zwarenstein Source Type: blogs
Some pharmacological history: an exam from 1959
Last year, I was sent my answer paper for one of my final exams, taken in 1959. This has triggered a bout of shamelessly autobiographical nostalgia.
The answer sheets that I wrote had been kept by one of my teachers at Leeds, Dr George Mogey. After he died in 2003, aged 86, his widow, Audrey, found them and sent them to me. And after a hunt through the junk piled high in my office, I found the exam papers from that year too.
George Mogey was an excellent teacher and a kind man. He gave most of the lectures to medical students, which we, as pharmacy/pharmacology students attended. His lectures were inspirational.
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Source: DC's goodscience - February 6, 2014 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: B.L. Welch George Mogey H.O. Schild Pharmacology statistics University of Leeds inference J.W. Trevan UCL University College London Source Type: blogs
Some pharmacological history: an exam from 1959
Last year, I was sent my answer paper for one of my final exams, taken in 1959. This has triggered a bout of shamelessly autobiographical nostalgia.
The answer sheets that I wrote had been kept by one of my teachers at Leeds, Dr George Mogey. After he died in 2003, aged 86, his widow, Audrey, found them and sent them to me. And after a hunt through the junk piled high in my office, I found the exam papers from that year too.
George Mogey was an excellent teacher and a kind man. He gave most of the lectures to medical students, which we, as pharmacy/pharmacology students attended. His lectures were inspirational.
...
Source: DC's goodscience - February 6, 2014 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: B.L. Welch George Mogey H.O. Schild Pharmacology statistics University of Leeds inference J.W. Trevan UCL University College London Source Type: blogs
IFPMA Millennium Development Goals
In 2000, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set out in motion a landmark political agenda from the highest levels of national governments to be achieved by 2015. Through eight overarching goals, governments and international organizations committed to improving the social and economic conditions especially in the world's poorest countries. A recent report from the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) looked at several of these goals, which strongly relate to life science companies. Specifically, the report looked at goals related to:
Reducing child mortality
Improvi...
Source: Policy and Medicine - December 24, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Do You Believe More Vaccines or Better Nutrition Prevents Disease?
Conclusion
Tremendous government financial and medical resources are wasted on the development of more vaccinations to prevent diseases. No research has proven the effectiveness of vaccinations in preventing illness. Overwhelming evidence exists to show vaccines are dangerous to health and contribute to illness, injury and death.
To prevent disease, one should avoid vaccinations, mercury dental fillings and toxic food. Following a nutrient-dense diet of whole, organic foods and removing toxic metals from the body are the best avenues to try and prevent illness and enhance health.
References
http://www.fierce...
Source: vactruth.com - December 20, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Michelle Goldstein Top Stories Dr. Russell Blaylock National Institutes of Health (NIH) Nutrition truth about vaccines Weston Price Source Type: blogs
