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Long-running ProMED email service for alerting world to disease outbreaks is in trouble
The first news about the COVID-19 pandemic came not from a government or a scientific publication, but in an email from a disease-alert system called ProMED . This fateful missive in December 2019 about a few cases of a mysterious pneumonia in Wuhan, China, is just one example of how physicians and public health experts around the world have used the 30-year-old, free service to share real-time information about local disease outbreaks with tens of thousands of subscribers. But ProMED is now on life support. Much of its work came to a screeching halt yesterday when 21 of its 38 paid editors and moderators went o...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - August 4, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

The effect of Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare utilization in public vs private centers in Iran: a multiple group interrupted time-series analysis
The outbreak of Coronavirus in late 2019 and its continuation in the following years has affected all human societies, government organizations, and health systems. Access to health services is an important is...
Source: BMC Health Services Research - August 1, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Zohreh Rezaei, Farhad Lotfi, Mohsen Bayati and Zahra Kavosi Tags: Research Source Type: research

What Happens When Private Equity Buys Your Doctor ’ s Office?
Private equity ownership of American health care facilities has grown massively in the last few decades. A 2021 study of U.S. hospice agencies found private equity ownership more than doubled, to 7%, between 2011 and 2019 while in 2021, 63% of deals in hospice and home care were with private equity. Twice as many companies providing fertility care were bought between 2017 and 2019 than in the previous seven years combined, according to a 2020 study. The trend of accelerating acquistion stretches overseas, as well, with international health care buyouts by private equity firms totaling $240 billion in 2021 and 2022, compare...
Source: TIME: Health - July 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Haley Weiss Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Impact of COVID-19 lockdown and meteorology on the air quality of Srinagar city: A temperate climatic region in Kashmir Himalayas
Hyg Environ Health Adv. 2022 Dec;4:100025. doi: 10.1016/j.heha.2022.100025. Epub 2022 Sep 15.ABSTRACTThe deadly transmission of the coronavirus forced all countries to implement lockdowns to restrict the transmission of this highly infectious disease. As a result of these lockdowns and restrictions, many urban centers have seen a positive impact on air quality with a significant reduction in air pollution. Therefore, in this study, the impact of COVID-19 lockdown vis-a-vis meteorological parameters on the ambient air quality of Srinagar city was examined. In this regard, we have evaluated the temporal variation of six diff...
Source: Adv Data - July 31, 2023 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Mohammad Asif Pranav Mahajan Source Type: research

South Africa: Advocacy Group Makes Court Bid to Lift Veil of Secrecy Over Covid Vaccine Procurement
[Daily Maverick] The Pretoria High Court has reserved judgment in the Health Justice Initiative's appeal against the government's refusal to make several documents relating to the procurement of Covid-19 vaccines public.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 26, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Coronavirus Health and Medicine Legal and Judicial Affairs South Africa Southern Africa Source Type: news

Biden Picks Paul Friedrichs to Lead New White House Pandemic Office
Dr. Paul Friedrichs, a military combat surgeon and retired Air Force general, will lead the new office, which was created by Congress.
Source: NYT Health - July 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sheryl Gay Stolberg Tags: Paul Friedrichs Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Biden, Joseph R Jr Appointments and Executive Changes Epidemics National Security Council United States Politics and Government Source Type: news

The Impact of Entry Restrictions on the Spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Variants Between 2021 and 2022
This study explored the impact of border policy changes on overseas entrants and local cases of SARS-CoV-2 variants. Data from the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency randomly collected between April 11, 2021 and August 20, 2022 were evaluated using the Granger causality model. The results showed that the outbreak gap of delta variants between international and domestic cases was 10 weeks, while that of omicron variants was approximately 2 weeks, meaning that the quarantine policy helped contain delta variants rather than more transmissible variants. It is recommended that countries implement quarantine policies ba...
Source: Journal of Korean Medical Science - July 18, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Jinwook Hong Ae Kyung Park Munkhzul Radnaabaatar Eun-Jin Kim Dong Wook Kim Jaehun Jung Source Type: research