Brian Armstrong promised me $100 in Bitcoin
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong owes me $100. That’s because he might not know how to use the Lightning Network, the instant payment solution built on top of Bitcoin. Armstrong, who’s been building in the Bitcoin (BTC) space since 2012, recently tweeted that he would pay people who provided the “best…#coinbase #brianarmstrong #lightningnetwork #africa #senegal #bitcoin #twitter #og #dannyscott #coincorner (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The state of the Bitcoin Lightning Network in 2023
The Lightning Network, a layer-2 payment solution built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain, is six years old. Products, users and the amount of Bitcoin (BTC) sent on the Lightning Network (LN) has sky-rocketed in 2023, despite the price per Bitcoin slipping under $20,000. The LN has benefited from…#lightningnetwork #ln #nostr #elsalvador #senegal #ericsirion #bitcoin #fedimint #matthiaskoller #sirion (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Africa: Neglected Tropical Disease Mycetoma Research Gains Momentum
[IPS] Nairobi -- The disease burden and distribution of mycetoma--a neglected tropical disease--are not very well understood. However, it is known to affect people in Sudan, Senegal, Mauritania, Kenya, and Niger, as well as people in Nigeria, Ethiopia, India, and Cameroon. Cases have also been reported in Djibouti, Somalia, and Yemen. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 8, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Mountains, a lemon and 1930s China at Photofairs Shanghai
Bonian Space Beijing, established in 2019, presents the works of important figures in 20th-century Chinese photography, including Luo Bonian and Jin Shisheng, who were prolific in the 1930s, capturing daily life in China’s urban centres and tracing the history of these rapidly growing cities •…#bonianspacebeijing #luobonian #jinshisheng # #brooklyn #diallo #senegal #chengdu #lilang #chenqiulin (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Neglected Tropical Disease Mycetoma Research Gains Momentum
Patients outside the Mycetoma Research Center in Sudan. Credit: DNDi By Geoffrey KamadiNAIROBI, Apr 7 2023 (IPS) The disease burden and distribution of mycetoma—a neglected tropical disease—are not very well understood. However, it is known to affect people in Sudan, Senegal, Mauritania, Kenya, and Niger, as well as people in Nigeria, Ethiopia, India, and Cameroon. Cases have also been reported in Djibouti, Somalia, and Yemen.
“It is currently unknown what the incidence, prevalence and the number of reported cases per year per country is,” observes Dr Borna Nyaoke, head of the Mycetoma Program at the Drugs for Negl...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 7, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Geoffrey Kamadi Tags: Africa Featured Headlines Health Inequity TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Kenya Sudan Source Type: news
Enhancing the value of death registration with verbal autopsy data: a pilot study in the Senegalese urban population in 2019 - Niang K, Fall A, Ndiaye S, Sarr M, Ba K, Masquelier B.
BACKGROUND: There is no source of data on causes of death in Senegal that covers both community and hospital deaths. Yet the death registration system in the Dakar region is relatively complete (>80%) and could be expanded to provide information on the dis... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 3, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Africa: Africa Can Feed Itself, the World
[Times of Zambia] The Africa Food Summit which was held in Dakar, Senegal, recently, highlighted various issues such as the importance of investing in agriculture, arresting soaring inflation in Africa, effects of climate change and effects of the Russia-Ukraine war on the African continent. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 16, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
French Politician Faces Criminal Trial For Immigration Criticism
Authored by Jonathan Turley, We have previously discussed the alarming rollback on free speech rights in the West, particularly in France (here and here and here and here and here and here and here). The latest such case is a…#jonathanturley #stéphaneravier #marseilles #senegal #theo #senegalese #leagueforhumanrights #alainlothe #johngalliano #annemariesauteraud (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A Matter of Facts — December 2022
dtarnowskiMarch 8, 2023ISSUE HIGHLIGHTSFighting back against misinformation • Making the case for supporting research • Guttmacher goes to Thailand • Global gag rule effects in Ethiopia • Abortion's depiction onscreenFrom Our PresidentWe are living in times in which misinformation and disinformation about sexual and reproductive health is circulating on social platforms, in policy forums —and even making its way into legislation. Facts for the Fight, the tagline of our current fundraising campaign, captures our response to today ’s zeitgeist. The Guttmacher Institute exists to present the facts needed to advoc...
Source: The Guttmacher Institute - March 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: dtarnowski Source Type: news
A Matter of Facts — December 2022
dtarnowskiMarch 8, 2023ISSUE HIGHLIGHTSFighting back against misinformation • Making the case for supporting research • Guttmacher goes to Thailand • Global gag rule effects in Ethiopia • Abortion's depiction onscreenFrom Our PresidentWe are living in times in which misinformation and disinformation about sexual and reproductive health is circulating on social platforms, in policy forums —and even making its way into legislation. Facts for the Fight, the tagline of our current fundraising campaign, captures our response to today ’s zeitgeist. The Guttmacher Institute exists to present the facts needed to advoc...
Source: The Guttmacher Institute - March 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: dtarnowski Source Type: news
Why Senegal rejects the CFA and is warming to Bitcoin: video
Cointelegraph goes to Senegal, West Africa. The medium-sized African nation recently hosted a Bitcoin conference (BTC) and more and more merchants and customers are joining the Lightning Network. Armed with a camera, a lightning wallet and a microphone, Reporter Joe Hall took to the streets of…#senegal #westafrica #african #lightningnetwork #joehall #bitcoin #cointelegraphyoutube #hall #senegalese #bitcoinsen (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Local Partnership Launches Digital Health Tool to Decrease Hypertension in Senegal
March 08, 2023Saytu Tension—a suite of digital solutions that will help accelerate early detection, linkage to care, and follow-up among hypertensive patients in Senegal—launched on January 27 in Dakar.As part of theCARDIO4Dakar project, funded by the Novartis Foundation and implemented by IntraHealth International in partnership with the Senegalese Ministry of Health and Social Action, Saytu Tension (“check your blood pressure” in Wolof) will amplify existing efforts to reach more people with information about cardiovascular risk factors, such as hypertension, and help link clients to diagnosis and...
Source: IntraHealth International - March 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Senegal CARDIO4Dakar Noncommunicable Diseases Digital Health Source Type: news
Research Uncovers Cheaper Diagnostic Tools For Chronic Hepatitis B in Africa
This study adds guidance as to when such earlier diagnosis may be attained.
“However, research is one thing, health systems strengthening another. Studies like this one add to the impetus and arm the policymakers to make the right decisions,” he says.
But he urges communities to take charge of these findings instead of leaving action in the hands of “sometimes incapacitated policymakers’ hands.”
“The question should be, what is the community saying about findings such as these? If we wait for policymakers to decide when they are going to invest in hepatitis B interventions, we will wait for the rest of our ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Charles Mpaka Tags: Africa Featured Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Malawi Source Type: news
Hidden hydrogen: Earth may hold vast stores of a renewable, carbon-free fuel
IN THE SHADE
of a mango tree, Mamadou Ngulo Konaré recounted the legendary event of his childhood. In 1987, well diggers had come to his village of Bourakébougou, Mali, to drill for water, but had given up on one dry borehole at a depth of 108 meters. “Meanwhile, wind was coming out of the hole,” Konaré told Denis Brière, a petrophysicist and vice president at Chapman Petroleum Engineering, in 2012. When one driller peered into the hole while smoking a cigarette, the wind exploded in his face.
“He didn’t die, but he was burned,” Konaré continued. “And now we had a huge fire. The color of the ...
Source: ScienceNOW - February 16, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Equatorial Guinea Confirms First Outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease
DAKAR, Senegal — The World Health Organization says that Equatorial Guinea has confirmed its first-ever outbreak of Marburg disease, saying the Ebola-related virus is responsible for at least nine deaths in the tiny Western African country.
In a statement on Monday, the U.N. health agency confirmed the epidemic after samples from Equatorial Guinea were sent to a lab in Senegal to pinpoint the cause of disease after an alert from a local health official last week.
The WHO said there were currently nine deaths and 16 suspected cases with symptoms including fever, fatigue, diarrhea and vomiting. The agency said it was s...
Source: TIME: Health - February 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Associated Press Tags: Uncategorized Disease healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
