6 Ways to Make Your Diet More Sustainable in 2021
We’ve just had the warmest decade on record, with 2020 being one of the warmest years ever. Unfortunately, there is no indication that climate change will slow down in the next decade.
We are all in the same boat here, and it’s in our hands to stop it from sinking. And it all starts with food, production of which accounts for one-quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.
The good news is that it's not only up to governments and large producers to help reduce global warming. Each of us can do something to support the environment - and human health along with it.
The World Health Organ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - January 7, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ieva Sipola Tags: diet featured health and fitness self-improvement goals pickthebrain resolutions sustainable living Source Type: blogs
Sexual health and gender-affirming care
LGBTQ+ people are often considered a cohesive group, but sexual orientation and gender identity are different. Sexual orientation describes who a person prefers to be sexually intimate with. Gender identity, on the other hand, describes their sense of themselves as male, female, or another gender. Transgender and other gender diverse (TGD) people, whose gender identity is not aligned with their recorded sex at birth, can have any sexual orientation. (The same is true, of course, with cisgender people, whose gender identity aligns with their recorded sex at birth.)
What is sexual health?
Sexual health is a concept that goes...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 7, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Boskey, PhD Tags: Health Health care disparities LGBTQ Mental Health Sex Source Type: blogs
A Pandemic " Marshall Plan " ?
This article was originally published on LinkedIn on January 3, 2020.)---------Keith Carlson, RN, BSN, NC-BC, is the Board Certified Nurse Coach behind NurseKeith.com.Keith is the host of The Nurse Keith Show, his solo podcast focused on career advice and inspiration for nurses. From 2012 until its sunset in 2017, Keith co-hosted RNFMRadio, a groundbreaking nursing podcast.A widely published nurse writer, Keith is the author of Savvy Networking For Nurses: Getting Connected and Staying Connected in the 21st Century and Aspire to be Inspired: Creating a Nursing Career That Matters. He has contribute...
Source: Digital Doorway - January 4, 2021 Category: Nursing Tags: coronavirus COVID-19 healthcare healthcare access healthcare disparities medicine Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 02 January, 2021.
Here are a few I came across last week. Note: Each link is followed by a title and few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment. ----- https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/technology/qliqsoft-chatbot-helps-providers-handle-covid-19-vaccination-interactions-patients QliqSOFT Chatbot Helps Providers Handle COVID-19 Vaccination Interactions With Patients By Scott Mace | December 23, 2020 Tech aims to overcome vaccine hesitancy and provide self-scheduled vaccinations, t...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 2, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Towards Exosome Therapy for Neurodegenerative Conditions
Many approaches to stem cell therapy might be replaced in the years ahead by delivery of exosomes secreted by those stem cells. Most cell therapies produce benefits via the signals generated by the transplanted cells. Those signals produce beneficial changes in the behavior of native cells, such as suppression of inflammation or greater tissue maintenance activities. Without extensive engineering of supporting structures the transplanted cells survive only for a short time. Thus why not just deliver the signals? A sizable fraction of cell signaling is delivered via extracellular vesicles such as exosomes, membrane-wrapped ...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 28, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Prediction for Future: How Coronavirus Pandemic will Change the World?
H Omer Tontus (Istanbul Technical University), Prediction for Future: How Coronavirus Pandemic will Change the World? SSRN: On the last day of 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) was briefed about a wave of “unknown caused pneumonia” detected in Wuhan... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - December 27, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
What infectious diseases are due to be eradicated next?
Although Medical Science aims to eradicate Infectious Diseases in order to protect life and reduce the healthcare burden, it has only been able to achieve that goal against two diseases to date. While this remains a difficult task, there is a genuine possibility that additional diseases will be eliminated in the near future! Let’s explore the diseases that have been consigned to history…and those that are set to join them soon.
Smallpox: declared eradicated in 1980
Following a concentrated global effort spanning more than 20 years, Smallpox became the first infectious disease to be eradicated by mankind. S...
Source: GIDEON blog - December 23, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology News Source Type: blogs
21st century outbreaks
Which diseases have generated the highest number of cases from outbreaks during the first two decades of the 21st century? In this blog, we can use GIDEON’s data to find out.
‘Disease outbreak’ is a scary term for many, but every year we suffer dozens, if not hundreds, of localized and international disease outbreaks across the world. While these outbreaks are always significant to those affected, they rarely generate headlines, and can sometimes go unnoticed outside of the Healthcare Industry.
An “outbreak” is often defined as an increase in case numbers for a particular disease in a defined place and...
Source: GIDEON blog - December 3, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology News Outbreaks Source Type: blogs
Preparing for the Next Pandemic: the International Health Regulations and World Health Organization during COVID-19
Gian Luca Burci (University of Geneva), Mark Eccleston-Turner (Keele University), Preparing for the Next Pandemic: the International Health Regulations and World Health Organization during COVID-19, Yearbook of Inter ’l Disaster L. (2021, Forthcoming): In this chapter we will focus on how... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - December 3, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Alcohol and cancer in the WHO European Region: an appeal for better prevention
World Health Organization (WHO) - This factsheet provides information and guidance on the links between alcohol and a range of cancers for those involved in designing and implementing policies that affect public health. It sets out policy options to reduce the alcohol-attributable cancer burden, making clear that there is strong evidence that the implementation of cost-effective alcohol control policies including pricing policies (or policies that increase the price of alcohol) will achieve this.ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 19, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
AMR – what it is and why you should know about it
Today marks the beginning of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, driven by the World Health Organisation to improve global knowledge of antibiotic drugs. Running from the 18th to the 24th of November, the awareness initiative is focused on uniting to preserve effective antimicrobials and reduce or prevent the spread of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), which is becoming an increasing concern across the world.
Before we jump deeper into the AMR and the global impact it will have if not addressed, let’s briefly cover the history of antimicrobials in medicine.
1910, the first breakthrough in antimicrobial treatment
T...
Source: GIDEON blog - November 18, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Events News Source Type: blogs
What is antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and why you should know about it
Today marks the beginning of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, driven by the World Health Organisation to improve global knowledge of antibiotic drugs. Running from the 18th to the 24th of November, the awareness initiative is focused on uniting to preserve effective antimicrobials and reduce or prevent the spread of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), which is becoming an increasing concern across the world.
Before we jump deeper into the AMR and the global impact it will have if not addressed, let’s briefly cover the history of antimicrobials in medicine.
1910, the first breakthrough in antimicrobial treatment
T...
Source: GIDEON blog - November 18, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Events News Source Type: blogs
Hepatitis C
is a recently discovered disease. Harvey J. Alter identified the variant form of Hepatitis during the 70s, which then became known as a ‘non-A, non-B Hepatitis (NANBH)’. In the 1980s, Michael Houghton and his team isolated the genome of the new virus, and it was named ‘Hepatitis C’. Finally, in 1997 Charles M. Rice proved that the virus is a disease agent, capable of acting alone to cause Hepatitis.
This year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine has been jointly awarded to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice for the discovery of the virus. Their contributions (illustrated below) have led to improved unde...
Source: GIDEON blog - November 10, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology News Source Type: blogs
From the desert to the lab: dr. berger
Today is the birthday of our co-founder Dr. Stephen A. Berger, and the perfect time to share his personal story and the history behind the creation of GIDEON.
Steve has been the “beating heart” of the company’s medical knowledge and insight since its inception. GIDEON could not be what it is today and will be tomorrow, without him. Join us on Memory Lane as we celebrate Dr. Berger’s contribution to the medical community.
A TALENTED YOUNG DOCTOR
Steve was brought up in New York and was destined to become either a lawyer or a doctor. Thankfully for us, he fell in love with the latter field. Dr. Berger graduated with ...
Source: GIDEON blog - October 17, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Events News Tech Source Type: blogs
Disease names – what do they mean?
In the midst of the continuing pandemic, World Dictionary Day seems like the perfect occasion to consider the meaning and origin behind some of the most well-known disease names. We’ve been speaking with Dr. Steve Berger, our co-founder, to learn more.
CORONAVIRUSES
Let’s start with the obvious one. COVID 19, which began as a localized outbreak of “Novel Coronavirus” infection, is now a name almost every household in the world will know. COVID-19 comes from COrona VIrus Disease which first appeared in 2019, with the disease itself being caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
SARS was a prominent name back in the early 2...
Source: GIDEON blog - October 16, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology News Source Type: blogs
