Ban or Restrict? Quandary Facing Governments as Vaping Entices Teens Worldwide
By Ulysses DorotheoBANGKOK, Thailand, Jan 26 2024 (IPS) A hot debate on electronic smoking devices is expected to engage governments, scheduled to meet in Panama from 5-10 February for the tenth session of the Conference of Parties (COP) to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC).
The WHO FCTC, the first health treaty, was developed to address the global tobacco epidemic and to ensure that governments are supported in implementing comprehensive and effective tobacco control strategies.
Earlier in 2016, the governments during COP8 made a decision to either prohibit or restrict the manufacture, importati...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - January 26, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ulysses Dorotheo Tags: Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
Why I Hope the COVID Pandemic Isn't Over
(MedPage Today) -- On December 31, 2023, the World Health Organization's Maria Van Kerkhove, PhD, MS, tweeted that COVID-19 is "still a pandemic." Her long thread went on to detail the paradox of COVID's continued threat to health, the variety... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - January 24, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Community mobility and participation assessment of manual wheelchair users: a review of current techniques and challenges - Fasipe G, Gor šič M, Rahman MH, Rammer J.
According to the World Health Organization, hundreds of individuals commence wheelchair use daily, often due to an injury such as spinal cord injury or through a condition such as a stroke. However, manual wheelchair users typically experience reductions i... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 24, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Non-Covid deaths increased in people with diabetes, women, young affected more: Lancet Study
The team of researchers, including those from the World Health Organization (WHO), looked at 138 studies - North America (39), Western Europe (39), Asia (17) and others from Eastern Europe, South America, Egypt, Australia and multiple regions - to examine the impacts of pandemic-related disruptions on the vulnerable diabetic population. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - January 24, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
‘This is urgent’: the UK is scrambling to stem an alarming tide of measles
How did the country get from a 2017 WHO declaration that the disease had been eliminated in Britain to the current crisis?In September 2017, Britain was basking in the glory of a public health success story. No indigenous cases of measles had been recorded for three years. Decades after a sham study threatened to permanently undermine trust in the MMR jab, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella, the World Health Organization declared the disease had been eliminated for the first time in the UK.Dr Mary Ramsay, then head of immunisation at Public Health England (PHE), expressed delight. “This is a huge achieveme...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 24, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Andrew Gregory Health editor Tags: MMR Health UK news Society Source Type: news
Alarming 30-fold rise in measles in Europe - WHO
Urgent measures are needed now to stop further spread, the World Health Organization says. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - January 23, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Alarming 45-fold rise in measles in Europe - WHO
Urgent measures are needed now to stop further spread, the World Health Organization says. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - January 23, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
World Health Organization calls for US and other countries to sign up to pandemic treaty - warning Disease X outbreak could kill 20x more people than Covid
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the agency's director Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, warned a new pathogen - dubbed Disease X - was already on the way. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
WHO director calls for worldwide pandemic treaty to prepare for ominous 'Disease X'
The World Health Organisation has warned countries to prepare for 'Disease X,' which could be more deadly than the COVID-19 pandemic. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - January 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Scared of Sharps? This MAP Shows the Way to Delivering Painless Vaccines
A micro-needle patch (MAP) is an innovative method to deliver drugs and vaccines. Credit: QuadMedicineBy Busani BafanaSEOUL, Jan 22 2024 (IPS) If the fear of sharps makes a visit to the doctor dreadful, you need not dread it anymore.
A South Korean company’s invention of an innovative micro-needle patch could make you look forward to your next doctor’s visit.
The micro-needle patch (MAP) is a painless, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly way to administer vaccines and drugs in place of solid injections, its developers say.
The MAP system has the combined advantages of conventional patches and syringes. It ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - January 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Busani Bafana Tags: Asia-Pacific Development & Aid Headlines Health Population TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report South Korea Source Type: news
Cameroon Starts World ’ s First Malaria Vaccine Program for Children
Cameroon will be the first country to routinely give children a new malaria vaccine as the shots are rolled out in Africa.
The campaign due to start Monday was described by officials as a milestone in the decades-long effort to curb the mosquito-spread disease on the continent, which accounts for 95% of the world’s malaria deaths.
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“The vaccination will save lives. It will provide major relief to families and the country’s health system,” said Aurelia Nguyen, chief program officer at the Gavi vaccines alliance, which is helping Cameroon secure the s...
Source: TIME: Health - January 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Associated Press Tags: Uncategorized wire Source Type: news
Narrative and fixed-field data: are we underestimating the risk of family and domestic violence? - Octoman O, Cox S, Arney F, Chong A, Tucker E.
Family and domestic violence (FDV) has increasingly been recognised as a major societal issue globally (World Health Organisation, 2021). As research continues to highlight the nature and extent of FDV, growing attention has turned to the impact of FDV on ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
On tackling abuse of older people: the forensic challenges in fatal cases investigation - Giorgetti A, Pelletti G, Fiorentini C, Mazzotti MC, Fais P, Pelotti S.
The World Health Organization recently presented the priorities for tackling abuse of older people in a coordinated and strategic way. However, data on the forensic scenario is still lacking. In this context, the aim of the present work was to provide a co... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Nigeria: Rotary Commits $14m Grant to End Polio in Nigeria
[Vanguard] The World Health Organisation, WHO, on Thursday welcomed a new funding commitment made by Rotary International to support Nigeria in its efforts to eradicate all forms of polioviruses, especially the Circulating Variant Poliovirus (cVPV2), in the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 22, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria Polio West Africa Source Type: news
WHO warns countries to prepare for pandemic '20 times' deadlier than Covid
The head of the World Health Organisation has expressed his hope that countries would reach an agreement by May to tackle this "common enemy". (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - January 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
