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
Nearly 15% of People Worldwide Have Had Lyme Disease, Study Says
Lyme disease was first named nearly 50 years ago in Lyme, Connecticut, but the tick-borne disease is now found around the world. A new study published in BMJ Global Health estimates that 14.5% of the world’s population has, at some point, been infected with Lyme disease, which can cause short-term symptoms including a skin rash, fever, headache, and fatigue—as well as long-term ones, including damage to the joints, heart, and nervous system.
The scourge also appears to be getting worse. Lyme prevalence has doubled from 2010 to 2021, compared to 2001 to 2010.
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Source: TIME: Health - June 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized Disease healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Top Local Changemakers Addressing Health Equity Gaps Across the U.S. Named Johnson & Johnson Health Equity Innovation Challenge Awardees
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., June 14, 2022 – After an extensive search for the top changemakers in six key U.S. cities, Johnson & Johnson today announced the 14 awardees of its Health Equity Innovation Challenge. The awardees, who possess lived experience and a deep understanding of the communities they serve, were selected for their work in generating solutions to help close racial health and mortality gaps in six cities where Black and Brown individuals experience significant health inequities: Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City and Philadelphia.The Health Equity Innovation Challenge was created by J...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - June 14, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Innovation Source Type: news
Are we going to live with monkeypox like flu and Covid? Experts fear virus will never be eliminated
Dr Adam Kucharski, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, warned the 'biggest risk' of monkeypox is that 'case numbers will slow down but not be eliminated'. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
There ’s Already a Monkeypox Vaccine. But Not Everyone May Need It
Case counts of monkeypox continue to grow worldwide, raising concerns about how people can protect themselves. So far, the World Health Organization reports that in 12 countries, 92 cases have been confirmed in this recent emergence of the virus, and 28 possible cases are still being investigated. What alarms public health officials about the recent outbreaks is that monkeypox is generally not common or known to circulate in these nations; it’s endemic in parts of central and western Africa, but not in the European and North American nations—including the U.S.—that are currently seeing an uptick in infect...
Source: TIME: Health - May 23, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Public Health Source Type: news
There ’ s Already a Monkeypox Vaccine. But Not Everyone May Need It
Case counts of monkeypox continue to grow worldwide, raising concerns about how people can protect themselves. So far, the World Health Organization reports that in 12 countries, 92 cases have been confirmed in this recent emergence of the virus, and 28 possible cases are still being investigated. What alarms public health officials about the recent outbreaks is that monkeypox is generally not common or known to circulate in these nations; it’s endemic in parts of central and western Africa, but not in the European and North American nations—including the U.S.—that are currently seeing an uptick in infect...
Source: TIME: Health - May 23, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Public Health Source Type: news
As the Virus Evolves, COVID-19 Reinfections Are Going to Keep Happening
After the Omicron variant caused massive numbers of infections this past winter, lots of people looked on the bright side, hoping it would be “a free shot for the country,” says Eli Rosenberg, deputy director for science at the New York State Department of Health’s Office of Public Health. Even though lots of people got infected with the highly contagious variant, at least they would then have immunity against the virus, protecting them from getting sick in the future. In theory.
But that hasn’t turned out to be true. Many people—even those who are vaccinated, boosted, and previously infected&...
Source: TIME: Health - May 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
The impact of banning sporting events and other leisure activities on the COVID-19 epidemic, 11 March 2020, SAGE (updated 13th May 2022)
Paper prepared by the London School of Hygiene& Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) on the impact of banning sporting events and other leisure activities.
13 May 2022Added HTML version for accessibility purposes.
12 June 2020First published. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - May 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Johnson & Johnson Launches Next Satellite Center for Global Health Discovery at Holistic Drug Discovery and Development Centre, University of Cape Town, Focused on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
Cape Town, South Africa, April 25, 2022 – Johnson & Johnson (the Company) today announced the launch of the J&J Satellite Center for Global Health Discovery (Satellite Center) at the Holistic Drug Discovery and Development (H3D) Centre, University of Cape Town, in Cape Town, South Africa. This marks the latest expansion of the J&J Centers for Global Health Discovery (J&J Centers), a global network of research collaborations between the Company and leading research institutions to accelerate translational and discovery research to address some of the world’s most pressing global health challenges. The Sa...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - April 25, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Innovation Source Type: news
Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group seeks Research Associate - Liverpool, UK
Salary:£35,326 per annumContract type: Full-time Fixed term until March 2024Closing date: 15 May 2022LSTM ’s Centre for Evidence Synthesis in Global Health runs the “Research, Evidence and Development Initiative” (READ-It) and contains the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group (CIDG). The CIDG was established in 1995. They are world leaders in evidence synthesis related to public health in the tropics. They have a wide portfolio of Cochrane reviews in malaria and neglected tropical diseases, amongst other topics.Teams are already in place for some of the reviews and they have experienced technical specialists in all ar...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - April 19, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news
Farmers slam scientists for suggesting meat industry is following same PR handbook as big tobacco
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine researchers published a paper likening the meat industry's PR tactics to those in 'other harmful commodities' like alcohol and tobacco (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Johnson & Johnson Announces Series of Youth Initiatives Aimed at Helping to Empower a Generation to End Tuberculosis
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., March 24, 2022 – Today on World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, Johnson & Johnson (the Company) announced a series of initiatives in high TB burden countries aimed at helping to empower a generation of youth to end TB. The initiatives focus on supporting global efforts to help find the missing millions of people living with undiagnosed TB, and are part of Johnson & Johnson’s 10-year initiative to help drive progress toward the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal of ending this deadly, but preventable and treatable, disease by 2030.Johnson & Johnson, together with the Central TB Divi...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - March 24, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
We Must Carry on Paul Farmer ’s Work on Social Determinants of Health
Sub Saharan Africa has a population of 1.14 billion, yet just 24% of the population has access to safe drinking water. Credit: Stella Paul/IPSBy Ifeanyi NsoforABUJA, Mar 2 2022 (IPS) Paul Farmer, the legendary global health equity warrior, recently died in his sleep from heart-related complications at the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Butaro, Rwanda, the university he co-founded.
So many tributes have been written to Paul Farmer, and he deserves all the accolades bestowed on him posthumously. My tribute to Farmer is to amplify his teachings on the social determinants of health. It is crucial for health wor...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 2, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ifeanyi Nsofor Tags: Africa Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs Source Type: news
James Bond would have died from STIs, food poisoning and alcohol, study shows
On screen, James Bond is 'poorly prepared for travel-associated health risks' and naïve to the threat of infectious disease, report academics at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 25, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Biden Pivots to Home Tests to Confront Omicron Surge
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fighting the omicron variant surging through the country, President Joe Biden announced the government will provide 500 million free rapid home-testing kits, increase support for hospitals under strain and redouble vaccination and boosting efforts.
At the White House on Tuesday, Biden detailed major changes to his COVID-19 winter plan, his hand forced by the fast-spreading variant, whose properties are not yet fully understood by scientists. Yet his message was clear that the winter holidays could be close to normal for the vaccinated while potentially dangerous for the unvaccinated.
His pleas are n...
Source: TIME: Health - December 21, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AP/ JOSH BOAK, RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and COLLEEN LONG Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
