Coronavirus Live Updates: Hong Kong Bans Tiananmen Vigil, Citing Covid-19 Threat
It is the first time the June 4 event, which has been held annually since 1990, has been blocked. Protests in the United States have raised concerns about a second wave of infections. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - June 1, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Hydroxychloroquine (Drug) Demonstrations, Protests and Riots Brazil Nicaragua Source Type: news
U.S. Sends Two Million Doses of Hydroxychloroquine to Brazil
The two countries are studying whether the drug is safe and effective for the prevention and early treatment of Covid-19. Nicaragua has become a place of midnight burials. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - June 1, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Source Type: news
Coronavirus Live Updates: U.S. Protests Set Off Fears of New Outbreaks
Cities across the U.S. smolder from protests over police violence, in which virus precautions were uneven. Nicaragua has become a place of midnight burials. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - May 31, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Source Type: news
Impact of gender-based violence on psychological distress and happiness in Le ón (Nicaragua) - Bonilla-Algovia E, Rivas-Rivero E, Vázquez JJ.
The researchers' aim for the current study is to analyze the impact of gender-based violence on mental health and happiness. The sample is composed of 136 women victims of intimate partner violence, who were living in poverty. The participants contacted th... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 24, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Nicaraguan government says coronavirus deaths rise to 17
Nicaragua's Health Ministry on Tuesday confirmed a total of 17 people had died in the country from the novel coronavirus, while there were 254 cases in the past week, compared with a previously reported total count of eight deaths and 25 cases. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - May 20, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Truck drivers test positive for virus at Costa Rica border
Costa Rican officials say that in the week since they began testing truck drivers entering the country from Nicaragua and Panama, 23 who were asymptomatic have tested positive and others who showed symptoms were turned away without tests (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - May 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Nicaragua releases more than 2,800 inmates amid pandemic
Nicaragua has released more than 2,800 prisoners, one day after the death of an inmate who reportedly had suffered from respiratory problems and while the government maintained there was no local spread of the coronavirus in the country (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - May 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Packed Hospital Wards Cast Doubt on Nicaragua's Low Coronavirus Count, Doctors Say Packed Hospital Wards Cast Doubt on Nicaragua's Low Coronavirus Count, Doctors Say
Nicaraguan hospital wards are packed with patients suffering respiratory problems, according to more than a dozen health workers, casting doubt on the country ' s official tally of just 16 coronavirus cases and its ability to cope with the pandemic.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Critical Care Headlines)
Source: Medscape Critical Care Headlines - May 12, 2020 Category: Intensive Care Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
'Express burials' cast doubt on Nicaragua's virus figures
Roger Ordoñez was hospitalized with breathing problems last week (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - May 12, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
How does family communication relate to adolescent dating violence and externalizing behaviors? The role of parent-adolescent risk communication and attitudes toward violence in a Nicaraguan sample - Lu Y, Pettigrew J, Shin Y, Castillo MA, Allsup J.
Family plays a critical role for adolescent socialization. Parents in particular can promote either adolescent prosocial or problem behaviors. The purpose of the present study is two-fold. The first is to investigate the main and interaction effects of fam... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 24, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
New study shows sharp decrease of intimate partner violence in Nicaragua
(George Washington University) The percentage of women and girls in Nicaragua's second-largest city who reported experiencing physical violence by their partners during their lifetimes decreased from 55% in 1995 to 28% in 2016, according to a new study published in the journal BMJ Global Health. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 21, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Latin America Has Weak Defences Against the Pandemic
This article includes reporting by Ivet González in Havana, Mario Osava in Rio de Janeiro, and Orlando Milesi in Santiago.
The post Latin America Has Weak Defences Against the Pandemic appeared first on Inter Press Service. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 4, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Humberto Marquez Tags: Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Headlines Health Human Rights Latin America & the Caribbean Population Regional Categories Coronavirus COVID-19 ECLAC Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) Poverty World Health Organ Source Type: news
TV Could Sway Viewers to Prefer Thinner Women: Study
THURSDAY, Dec. 19, 2019 -- People who watch lots of TV prefer thinner women, which suggests that TV can influence opinions about preferred body shapes, researchers say.
Their study included 299 men and women in a remote area of Nicaragua, in Central... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - December 19, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Adolescent dating violence among Nicaraguan youth - Litz K, Holvoet N.
This study examines the rates of victimization and perpetration of physical, sexual, and psychological dating violence among a sample of 193 ever-partnered Nicaraguan adolescents. FINDINGS reveal high levels of partner violence, with 20% of student... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 12, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Study: After trade deal, unhealthy foods flowed into Central America, Dominican Republic
(University at Buffalo) The study analyzes the availability of non-nutritious food in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic in the years after the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) was signed between those countries and the US, going into effect in 2006. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 13, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
