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Obesity plays out as a private struggle and a public health crisis. In the United States, about 70% of adults are affected by excess weight, and in Europe that number is more than half. The stigma against fat can be crushing; its risks, life-threatening. Defined as a body mass index of at least 30, obesity is thought to power type 2 diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, fatty liver disease, and certain cancers.
Yet drug treatments...
Source: ScienceNOW - December 14, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
News at a glance: AI rules for Europe, vaccines for Africa, and a union for NIH early-career researchers
HEALTH EQUITY
A billion-dollar boost for vaccinemaking in Africa
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, has committed up to $1 billion to bolster Africa’s ability to sustainably produce its own doses of lifesaving vaccines. Manufacturers based in Africa produce only 1% of the vaccine doses used on the continent. Last week, Gavi announced that with money left over from the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access Facility—an effort to provide an equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines—it would create the African Vaccine Manufacturing Accelerator (AVMA) to focus on preventing 11 priority infectious diseases. As ...
Source: ScienceNOW - December 14, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
AI shows promise detecting TB in Zambia
In this study, the researchers evaluated Google AI TB in adults who had symptoms suggestive of TB, who were close contacts of TB patients, or who were newly diagnosed with HIV. They enrolled 1,932 patients at three clinical sites. Of the 1,807 patients with a definitive TB status, 641 (35%) were HIV positive and 190 (11%) were TB positive.The TB AI’s scores were calculated using two prespecified operating points (OP): a high sensitivity OP based on the WHO target product profile (90% sensitivity/70% specificity) and a more balanced OP designed to resemble an average radiologist’s performance (90% sensitivity/50% specif...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - December 14, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Artificial Intelligence Chest Radiology Subspecialties Source Type: news
World Health Organization calls for ALL flavored vapes to be banned worldwide and 'treated like cigarettes'
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday urged governments to treat e-cigarettes similarly to tobacco and ban all flavors. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ban Flavored Vapes, WHO Says, Urging Tobacco-style Controls Ban Flavored Vapes, WHO Says, Urging Tobacco-style Controls
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday urged governments to treat e-cigarettes similarly to tobacco and ban all flavors, threatening cigarette companies ' bets on...Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - December 14, 2023 Category: Primary Care Tags: Public Health & Prevention Source Type: news
Dengue Fever Is Soaring Worldwide. Here ’s What to Know—and How to Stay Protected
Governments and public health experts around the world are sounding the alarm about the record-high spread of one of the most notorious—and incurable—diseases, which about half the world is at risk of catching: dengue.
The mosquito-borne virus has a long history in warm climates but is now also emerging in regions where it had been generally unheard of—such as in Europe and parts of the U.S. By early December, there had already been more than five million dengue infections worldwide this year—a dramatic increase from some 500,000 cases in 2000—recorded across at least 80 countries and terri...
Source: TIME: Health - December 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Koh Ewe Tags: Uncategorized Explainer News Desk Source Type: news
Angola: Angola Participates in Emergency Meeting On Health in Gaza
[ANGOP] Luanda -- Angola has joined the other member states since the 10th of this month in a special session organised by the Executive Board of the World Health Organisation (WHO) on the precarious health situation in Gaza, the occupied Palestinian territory. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 13, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Angola Central Africa Conflict, Peace and Security External Relations Health and Medicine Human Rights International Organizations and Africa Middle East and Africa Southern Africa Sustainable Development Source Type: news
WHO'Very Worried' About Spread of Mpox in DRC WHO'Very Worried' About Spread of Mpox in DRC
The World Health Organization is ' very worried ' about the spread of a severe form of mpox that has killed nearly 600 people, mainly children, in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year, a senior official said. Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - December 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
5 countries in East and southern Africa have anthrax outbreaks, WHO says, with 20 deaths reported
The World Health Organization says five countries in East and southern Africa are in the middle of outbreaks of the anthrax disease with more than 1,100 suspected cases and 20 deaths this year (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - December 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Social outbreak in Chile, and its association with the effects biological, psychological, social, and quality of life - Parra-Soto S, Duran-Aguero S, Vargas-Silva F, V ázquez-Morales K, Pizarro-Mena R.
The World Health Organization has defined collective violence as the instrumental use of violence by people who identify themselves as members of a group against other individuals and have political, economic, or social objectives. In Chile, the "Social Ou... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 11, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Reversing the trend of motorcycle crashes towards a continuous decline - Voon WS.
Report from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows an alarming figure of 1.35 million deaths annually in the past few years due to road traffic crashes in the world (World Health Organization, 2018). Road traffic injuries is now the leading cause of dea... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 11, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
PFOA declared a carcinogen
IARC Monographs evaluate the carcinogenicity of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the cancer agency of the World Health Organization (WHO), has evaluated the carcinogenicity of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)…#iarcmonographs #pfoa #pfos #pfas #workinggroup #iarc #group1 #lancetoncology #afffs #bonde (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
COP28: One Health Steps Delight Many, Others Show Cautious Optimism
A mask seller in an Indian food market in Kerala during a recent zoonotic disease outbreak. COP28 is the first climate negotiation where the majority of the countries have agreed to declare their commitment to prevent the worsening health impacts of climate change. Credit: Stella Paul/IPSBy Stella PaulDUBAI, Dec 9 2023 (IPS) One Health activist, Kelly Dent, has been attending UNFCCC COPs since 2009, when it was held in Copenhagen. From there, it has been a 15-year-long journey to Dubai, but Dent is finally having a reason to feel good: for the first time, the majority of the countries have come together to formally declare...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - December 9, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Stella Paul Tags: Climate Action Climate Change COP28 Development & Aid Environment Featured Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Report xIPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
ET Impact: DCGI asks pharma cos to adhere to production quality standards
The DCGI's move comes a few days after ET reported that industrial excipients are used in manufacturing medicines and over 50 companies manufacturing cough syrups have failed quality tests. The World Health Organization (WHO) said in October last year that the deaths of dozens of children in Gambia from acute kidney injuries might be linked to contaminated cough and cold syrups made by an Indian drug manufacturer. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - December 8, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Progress in Immunization Safety Monitoring - Worldwide, 2020-2022
This report describes progress in the use of the immunization safety monitoring indicator and progress on joint adverse events following immunization among World Health Organization-affiliated countries and territories. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - December 7, 2023 Category: American Health Tags: Global Health MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Vaccine Safety Source Type: news
