You Can ’t Have Healthy People On a Sick Planet
About a year ago, I was declared cancer-free after four months of chemotherapy at Providence St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif. I had been diagnosed with low-grade B cell non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. This was not my first encounter with cancer. I’d had breast cancer a number of years prior, which was treated with radiation and then a full mastectomy. I realize I’m lucky. I had caring, attentive doctors and nurses who saved my life. I also realize how much progress has been made in cancer research and I am deeply grateful.
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Yet despite that, cancer has...
Source: TIME: Health - January 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jane Fonda Tags: Uncategorized climate change Climate Is Everything Source Type: news
Workplace violence ‘extremely high’ in radiologic sciences
More than 60% of diagnostic radiology and radiation therapy staff experience workplace violence, according to a study published January 9 in Radiography.
Risk factors for workplace violence include intoxicated patients, staff stress, long patient waiting times, overcrowded environments, and inadequate staff and security measures, wrote lead author Krushi Shah, of Curtin University in Perth, Australia. The authors called for implementing strategies to reduce risk.
“The most common coping strategy [we found in our review] was doing nothing, which is concerning,” they noted.
Workplace violence is a significant issue in...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - January 12, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Practice Management Radiologic Technologist Imaging Leaders Source Type: news
WEF to discuss thwarting a future'Disease X' pandemic
When the World Economic Forum meets in Davos next week, global leaders are set to discuss how to prevent a future unknown "Disease X" the World Health Organization predicts could kill 20 times more people than the recent coronavirus outbreak. The name might sound like something conjured up by Elon…#worldeconomicforum #davos #elonmusk #radiodavos #katekelland #kelland #monkeypox #cepi #zuckerberg #wef (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Africa: Life-Saving Aid Not Reaching Millions of People Caught in Health Emergencies - WHO
[VOA] Geneva -- The World Health Organization is warning that millions of people caught in conflict-driven health emergencies risk dying from traumatic wounds and infectious diseases because life-saving humanitarian aid is not reaching those in need. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 12, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Africa External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Source Type: news
Holiday Gatherings and a New Variant Are Fueling COVID-19 Deaths, WHO Says
GENEVA — The head of the U.N. health agency said Wednesday holiday gatherings and the spread of the most prominent variant globally led to increased transmission of COVID-19 last month.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said nearly 10,000 deaths were reported in December, while hospital admissions during the month jumped 42% in nearly 50 countries—mostly in Europe and the Americas—that shared such trend information.
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“Although 10,000 deaths a month is far less than the peak of the pandemic, this level of preventable deaths is not acceptable,” the Wor...
Source: TIME: Health - January 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Associated Press Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
500-mg Calcium Pill Protects Against Preeclampsia 500-mg Calcium Pill Protects Against Preeclampsia
The calcium dose tested in India and Tanzania was one third of what is now recommended by the World Health Organization yet just as effective.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Pulmonary Medicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape Pulmonary Medicine Headlines - January 10, 2024 Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Source Type: news
REVEALED: HALF of the WHO's transgender health committee members have NO medical background and the majority are activists
The vast majority of members on the World Health Organization 's transgender health policy committee have no medical background - and most are activists and human rights lawyers. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
WHO Axes Medical Aid Delivery to North Gaza in Absence Of Security Guarantees WHO Axes Medical Aid Delivery to North Gaza in Absence Of Security Guarantees
The World Health Organization (WHO) said it had been compelled to cancel a mission to bring medical supplies to northern Gaza on Sunday after failing to receive security...Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - January 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hospital Medicine Source Type: news
F.D.A. Warned of Mental Side Effects from Asthma Drug, Singulair. Few Were Told.
Singulair, now a generic, is still used by millions of people in the United States even after thousands of patients and dozens of studies have described harm. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - January 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Jewett and Benjamin Mueller Tags: Suicides and Suicide Attempts Asthma Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) Mental Health and Disorders Allergies Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Food and Drug Administration Merck & Company Inc World Health Organization United States Singulair m Source Type: news
Ontario surgeon back from medical mission says his 'heart and soul' remain with children in Gaza
Hamilton-based Dr. Anas Al-Kassem travelled to Gaza late last month as part of a medical convoy to help Palestinians injured in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, and suffering from what the World Health Organization has called "catastrophic" health conditions. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - January 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Hamilton Source Type: news
Technology Transfer Critical to Revolutionizing Africa ’s Pharma Industry
BioNTainers, facilities equipped to manufacture a range of mRNA-based vaccines have been inaugurated in Rwanda in December 2023. Credit: Aimable Twahirwa/IPSBy Aimable TwahirwaKIGALI, Jan 8 2024 (IPS) An agreement signed between the Rwandan government and the Africa Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation (APTF) gives impetus to Africa’s domestic industry with the hope of helping the continent tackle vaccine inequity and fill the critical gap in vaccine manufacturing.
The agreement to operationalize the foundation was signed in Kigali, Rwanda, in late 2023.
What is important, according to stakeholders, is to focus efforts o...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - January 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Aimable Twahirwa Tags: Africa COVID-19 Development & Aid Featured Headlines Health Human Rights Sustainable Development Goals TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Rwanda Source Type: news
The two European hotspots making face masks mandatory again as UK urged to follow
The World Health Organization Director-General has urged people to put their face masks back on, as the UK battles against a dramatic surge in Covid cases. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - January 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New antibiotic compound very exciting, expert says
A new antibiotic compound could help treat a bacterium the World Health Organization classes as a major threat. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - January 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Nigeria: WHO Donates Trauma Kits to Victims of Plateau Killings
[Leadership] World Health Organisation (WHO) has donated trauma kits to Plateau State government to provide succour for the victims of the attacks on Christmas eve in the state. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 3, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news
Unveiling the global surge: unraveling the factors fueling the spread of Karoshi syndrome - Al-Madhagi HA.
Karoshi syndrome, also known as "death by overwork", has been a topic of study and concern in Japan since the 1980s. World Health Organization (WHO) and International Labour Organization (ILO) joint unveiled that in 2021, approximately 750.000 deaths due t... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 1, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news
