Monkeypox: UK Response Branded “Scandalous” By Sexual Health Experts
Honorary assistant professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said the response to monkeypox had been "incompetent and frustrating." (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - September 14, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Jamie Wareham, Contributor Tags: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion /diversity-equity-inclusion Leadership /leadership Innovation /innovation Healthcare /healthcare Source Type: news
Monkeypox: U.K. Response Branded ‘Scandalous’ By Sexual Health Experts
Honorary assistant professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said the response to monkeypox had been "incompetent and frustrating." (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - September 14, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Jamie Wareham, Contributor Tags: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion /diversity-equity-inclusion Leadership /leadership Innovation /innovation Healthcare /healthcare Source Type: news
Routine surgeries could be postponed due to blood shortages
Professor Ian Roberts, one of the UK's leading experts on blood loss who is based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said hospitals will have no option but to delay elective surgery. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 3, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine seeks Professor/Senior Lecturer of Evidence Synthesis in Global Health - Liverpool, UK
Location: Liverpool, UKContract type: Permanent / Full TimeClosing date: Fri, Sep 30, 2022The Role:This leadership role is for a highly experienced scientist in evidence synthesis who will lead the further development of evidence synthesis, as part of the Global Health Trials and Synthesis Unit, and across the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and its partners.The Department of Clinical Sciences is a global leader in evidence synthesis providing an excellent platform for translational research from concept through discovery and clinical trials to evidence synthesis, teaching, policy change and eventual health impac...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - August 30, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news
Clinical Management Guidelines Lacking for Monkeypox
FRIDAY, Aug. 19, 2022 -- There is a lack of evidence-based clinical management guidelines for monkeypox (MPX), according to a review published online Aug. 16 in BMJ Global Health.
Eika Webb, M.B.B.S., from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - August 19, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
News at a glance: Omicron vaccine, colonial-era exploitation, and mapping health equity
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Scientists rallied outside Canada’s Parliament on 11 August, carrying a 70-meter-long letter with more than 7000 signatures. The letter to lawmakers calls for increases in the stipends paid by graduate student scholarships and postdoctoral fellowships awarded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. “We can’t do science if we can’t pay rent,” one rallygoer’s sign read.
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U.K. OKs anti-Omicron vaccine
The United Kingdom this week became the first country to approve an updated COVID-19 booster directed at two different strains o...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 18, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
Climate Experts Are Testing New Ways To Reach the People Most Affected by Extreme Heat
As heat waves become longer, hotter, and more widespread across the planet, human responses to them are becoming increasingly local and specialized.
Both scientific researchers and government officials are finding that the best strategies to keep cool are ones that are specially tailored to a community. That may seem obvious, given that outdoor laborers need different cooling resources than school teachers, for instance. But existing national and regional policies aren’t always that fine tuned—and they run the risk of wasting resources or missing the most vulnerable people.
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Source: TIME: Health - July 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Barone Tags: Uncategorized climate climate change Climate Is Everything extreme weather healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Without Roe v. Wade, U.S. Maternal Mortality Rates May Get Even Worse
The United States is a surprisingly dangerous place to be pregnant. The U.S. maternal mortality rate—nearly 24 deaths per 100,000 live births, as of 2020—is far higher than in comparable developed nations, and research shows it has gotten worse in recent years, not better. Maternal death rates are particularly high among Black women, at 55 deaths per 100,000 births compared to 19 deaths per 100,000 births among white women.
Experts fear these numbers will only get worse now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned, eliminating the constitutional right to abortion and triggering an array of state-level bans that pla...
Source: TIME: Health - June 30, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized abortion healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
South Africa: Children's Rights to Nutrition Must Be Put At the Centre of Food Systems, Conference Is Told
[Daily Maverick] Children's rights to food and adequate nutrition took centre stage on Thursday evening at the Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy Week hosted jointly by Stellenbosch University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 30, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Polio Eradication Will Take Funds and Awareness
A polio vaccinator administers the oral polio vaccine to a child in Pakistan. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSBy Ifeanyi NsoforABUJA, Jun 22 2022 (IPS) For forty days, Kunle Adeyanju – a Nigerian, Rotarian, polio eradication advocate and biker – rode for more than 12,500km from London to Lagos to raise funds for polio eradication.
Adeyanju documented his journey on Twitter, where his handle is appropriately named @lionheart1759. Indeed, it takes one with a lion’s heart to embark on such a bold adventure. People like philanthropist Bill Gates, who works on polio eradication, and the CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, tweet...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 22, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ifeanyi Nsofor Tags: Africa Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs Polio Source Type: news
Gay and bisexual men WILL be offered monkeypox vaccine in targeted rollout
Scientists at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine warned it is 'highly likely' that another 10,000 cases of monkeypox would be spotted worldwide. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ivermectin for preventing and treating COVID-19
Is ivermectin effective for COVID ‐19? Updated Cochrane review'Ivermectin for preventing and treating COVID ‐19 'Key messagesWe found no evidence to support the use of ivermectin for treating COVID ‐19 or preventing SARS‐CoV‐2 infection. The evidence base improved slightly in this update, but is still limited.Evaluation of ivermectin is continuing in 31 ongoing trials, and we will update this review again when their results become available. What is ivermectin?Ivermectin is a medicine used to treat parasites, such as intestinal parasites in animals, and scabies in humans. It is inexpensive and is widely used in...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - June 21, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Katie Abbotts Source Type: news
Johnson & Johnson Opens First Satellite Center for Global Health Discovery in Asia Pacific at Duke-NUS to Advance Dengue Research
SINGAPORE, June 21, 2022 – Johnson & Johnson (the Company) today announced the launch of the new J&J Satellite Center for Global Health Discovery (Satellite Center) at Singapore’s Duke-NUS Medical School, jointly established by Duke University and the National University of Singapore (NUS) as a graduate-entry medical school and research powerhouse. As the first of the J&J Centers for Global Health Discovery (J&J Centers) in the Asia-Pacific region, the Satellite Center at Duke-NUS aims to help drive new solutions to address flaviviruses, which disproportionately impact communities across the region, by ...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - June 21, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Why the monkeypox outbreak is mostly affecting men who have sex with men
Ever since monkeypox started sickening thousands of people worldwide this spring, two big questions have loomed: Why is a virus that has never managed to spread beyond a few cases outside Africa suddenly causing such a big, global outbreak? And why are the overwhelming majority of those affected men who have sex with men (MSM)?
A long history of work on sexually transmitted infections and early studies of the current outbreak suggest the answers may be linked: The virus may have made its way into highly interconnected sexual networks within the MSM community, where it can spread in ways that it cannot in the ge...
Source: ScienceNOW - June 20, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
COVID-19 Schools Infection Survey, England: round 3 questionnaire analysis, March 2022 - Long COVID, ONS
Analysis of findings on from round 3 of the Schools Infection Survey ' s headteacher, parent and pupil questionnaires. The Schools Infection Survey is jointly led by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK Health Security Agency and the Office for National Statistics. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 16, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
