(2022-04-08). Striking New South Wales health workers speak out. wsws.org "Everyone is affected. It's not just the nurses and the doctors, it's the little people like us, cleaners, porters, ward assistants. Without us, the hospital wouldn't be running."
(2022-04-08). Australia: Health workers strike reveals mounting opposition to union bureaucracy and Labor. wsws.org The angry interjections of health workers at the union meetings reflect a growing shift in the working class after the profound experiences of the ongoing pandemic.
(2022-04-08). Workers around the world come to the defense of former Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught. wsws.org The WSWS is organizing the working class to defend former Vanderbilt nurse RaDonda Vaught and all health care workers against victimization for the crisis of the for-profit health care system.
(2022-04-08). Blaise Compaoré convicted for the murder of revolutionary Burkinabé leader Thomas Sankara. peoplesdispatch.org After over three decades, a court in Burkina Faso has convicted former President Blaise Compaoré in the assassination of his predecessor, and revolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara. The verdict was announced by a military tribunal in the capital of Ouagadougou on April 6th, following a six-month trial. | Sankara was a Marxist, Pan-Africanist icon who became the president of Burkina Faso in 1983. Under his leadership, the government implemented a progressive and socialist program of self-sufficiency, nationalization and distribution of land, education, healthcare, and the emancipation of women. | Sankara once said,…
(2022-04-08). Australia: Health worker strikes reveal mounting opposition to union bureaucracy and Labor. wsws.org The angry interjections of health workers at the union meetings reflect a growing shift in the working class after the profound experiences of the ongoing pandemic.
(2022-04-08). New Zealand's leading health officials resign as COVID deaths mount. wsws.org The resignation of Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield and Public Health Director Dr Carlone McElnay follows the Labour Party-led government's decision to abandon all public health restrictions, resulting in a surge in deaths.
(2022-04-08). Video: Digital Tyranny and the Rockefeller-Gates WHO "Vaxx-Certificate Passport": Towards a World War III Scenario. globalresearch.ca It's an electronic ID-program using the Covid-19 "vaccine as a platform for digital identity, linking everything to everything of each individual (records of health, banking, personal and private, etc.), managed by a state agency or in extremis, by the private sector.
(2022-04-08). Iran exports Covid-19 vaccines to 10 African countries. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 08 (MNA) — The Iranian health minister Bahram Einollahi has said that as many as six centers are manufacturing anti-Covid-19 vaccines in Iran, adding that the Covid-19 vaccines are exported to 10 African countries.
(2022-04-08). No to war! For a scientific struggle against COVID-19! Build the PES! wsws.org The 2022 French presidential election, held on two rounds on Sunday April 10 and 24, is unfolding amid an international breakdown of the capitalist order.
(2022-04-08). COVID-19 cuts a swathe through official Washington. wsws.org The latest outbreak exposes the false character of the claims that the pandemic is over, as well as the self-delusion of those who have come to believe their own lies.
(2022-04-08). Staten Island Amazon workers vote 'union yes'. fightbacknews.org New York, NY – On April 1 workers at the Amazon warehouse JFK8 in Staten Island New York voted to join the newly formed Amazon Labor Union (ALU). | Amazon is one of the largest companies in the United States and through the COVID-19 pandemic it has ballooned in size and importance to the economy as more people have transitioned to online shopping. In recent years multiple unions had unsuccessfully attempted to unionize in several high profile campaigns. | More than 8000 Amazon employees at the Staten Island warehouse will become members of the ALU after the successful vote. | Amazon vows to contest the results o…
(2022-04-08). LEE SIU HIN 2021-2022 Journey between China and U.S. (Part One). indybay.org My activism building solidarity and China discovery working trip for fighting COVID, peace and justice building, Xinjiang fact-finding, anti-imperialism and understanding the Russian-Ukrainian conflict…
(2022-04-08). LEE SIU HIN 2021-2022 Journey between China and U.S. (Part Two). indybay.org My activism building solidarity and China discovery working trip for fighting COVID, peace and justice building, Xinjiang fact-finding, anti-imperialism and understanding the Russian-Ukrainian conflict….
(2022-04-08). EEUU: Desalojos en Hialeah. cubadebate.cu Desplazamientos y desalojos son parte de la cotidianidad en Hialeah, quinta ciudad más grande del estado norteamericano de Florida, que ha sido afectada por un déficit de viviendas generado por la crisis que exacerbó la pandemia de covid-19. El costo de los alquileres y la compra de inmuebles cada día se hacen más inaccesibles para los residentes.
(2022-04-08). Record inflation is driving mass poverty‚ÄÜin Germany. wsws.org The consequences of the coronavirus pandemic and sanctions imposed on Russia have led to an explosion in prices worldwide. In Germany, annual inflation rose to 7.3 percent in March.
(2022-04-08). Banco Mundial rebaja el crecimiento de Latinoamérica y el Caribe al 2.3 por ciento para este año. cubadebate.cu El Banco Mundial rebajó la proyección de crecimiento económico para Latinoamérica y el Caribe para este año del 2.6% al 2.3% ante la incertidumbre por el coronavirus, la alta inflación y la guerra en Ucrania. En su informe semianual para la región la institución también redujo la perspectiva de crecimiento para 2023 y situó la de 2024 en el 2.4%.
(2022-04-08). No Charges For Minneapolis Cop In Amir Locke Killing. popularresistance.org Two months after Minneapolis Police officer Mark Hanneman killed Amir Locke, 22, while executing a no-knock warrant, prosecutors say they won't be charging Hanneman with a crime. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison released a 44-page joint report on April 6 explaining their decision in the case. Also released was a report by retired police officer John "Jack" Ryan.
(2022-04-08). Solidarity with Ukraine with CA climate action day April 8 Solidarity with Ukraine with CA. indybay.org On April 8 communities across California will join together in solidarity with Ukraine – to free fossil fuel dependency – will have a statewide day of action as they call on the Governor to build on his climate leadership by ending all new fossil fuel permitting and strengthening the setbacks rule to include both new and existing oil wells.
(2022-04-08). Chris Hedges On Imperialist Wars, Capitalist Media & Censorship. indybay.org Journalist and writer Chris Hedges is interviewed on WorkWeek and talks about the removal of the complete archives on his show at RT by youtube which is owned by Google.
(2022-04-07). New candidate vaccines for variants designed. ecns.cn Chinese scientists have described a new strategy for making vaccines against COVID-19 that could elicit effective neutralizing antibodies against the Omicron and Delta variants.
(2022-04-07). Omicron subvariant makes up nearly three quarters of new COVID-19 infections in U.S. ecns.cn The BA.2 sub-lineage of the Omicron variant has accounted for nearly three quarters of new COVID-19 infections in the United States, according to latest data of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
(2022-04-07). What experts know about COVID-19 omicron subvariant BA.2. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — The World Health Organization designated COVID-19 variant B.1.1.529, named omicron, a "variant of concern" on Nov. 26, 2021, and the first confirmed case in the U.S. was on Dec. 1, 2021. Since then, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has classified two subvariants, BA.1.1 and BA.2. All omicron subvariants are classified as variants of concern, the third highest of four classifications. (For more on variants of concern and other classifications,…
(2022-04-07). Why calling the highly contagious COVID-19 omicron BA.2 a 'stealth variant' is a misnomer. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org BA.2, the newest subvariant of omicron, is highly transmissible and accounts for 55% of COVID-19 infections in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "It has been classified as a variant of concern, and it's causing the majority of cases of COVID worldwide and here in the United States. The studies that have been done on this variant have shown that it has what we call a 'growth advantage,'" says Dr. Matthew Binnicker, director…
(2022-04-07). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: COVID-19 metrics improve, expert still urges caution. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Hospitalizations and deaths due to COVID-19 continue to decline, leading to some optimism about the way forward from pandemic to endemic. But experts still urge caution as the omicron subvariant, named BA.2, has quickly become the dominant strain in the U.S. "When you look around the nation, all of the metrics, with the exception of BA.2, have fallen precipitously," explains Dr. Gregory Poland, head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. "But we need to be very cautious about…
(2022-04-07). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Diagnostic testing, precision medicine and what it means for patients. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Precision medicine aims to customize health care by tailoring medications and treatments to each patient. An important step in being able to personalize treatments is diagnostic testing. Mayo Clinic BioPharma Diagnostics collaborates with biopharmaceutical, diagnostic, and other biotech companies to enable precision medicine through advanced diagnostics. Diagnostic testing can help find the right answers for each individual patient. "A laboratory test can either help in making a diagnosis for a disease, or it can help…
(2022-04-07). Survey of US high school youth finds mental health issues climbed in second year of pandemic. wsws.org The CDC report points to a dramatic growth in psychological and emotional trauma among youth over the past two years from the pandemic which has been allowed to run rampant, killing at least 1 million Americans.
(2022-04-07). Shanghai's 26M People Are In Covid Lockdown: How China's Struggles Could Impact Inflation, U.S. Supply Chain. moguldom.com China's covid-related lockdown and severe restrictions in Shanghai and other parts of the country have affected millions of workers and could impact the U.S. supply chain, exacerbating already runaway inflation. China's zero-covid policy, which imposed strict measures in the last two years to keep the disease out of the country while the rest of the …
(2022-04-07). Arizona couple donates Collaborative Research Building to Mayo Clinic. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Scottsdale, Ariz. — Thomas R. and Ruth Ann Hornaday of Paradise Valley, Arizona, have donated the Collaborative Research Building to Mayo Clinic. The 110,000-square-foot biomedical research facility, which opened on Mayo Clinic's Scottsdale campus in 2005, is valued at $64.4 million. The Collaborative Research Building houses laboratory-based research activity at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. Mayo Clinic researchers, physicians and other investigators are leading the scientific discovery of the mechanisms of human disease, as well as…
(2022-04-07). Consumer Health: Are there 'Alzheimer's disease genes?'. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Alzheimer's disease is a progressive disorder that causes brain cells to waste away and die. Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia, which is a term used to describe a group of symptoms that affect memory, thinking and social abilities severely enough to interfere with daily function. As many as 5.8 million people in the U.S. were living with Alzheimer's disease in 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And the…
(2022-04-07). New computational model proposed for Alzheimer's disease. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic researchers have proposed a new model for mapping the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease to brain anatomy. This model was developed by applying machine learning to patient brain imaging data. It uses the entire function of the brain rather than specific brain regions or networks to explain the relationship between brain anatomy and mental processing. The findings are reported in Nature Communications. "This new model can advance our understanding of how…
(2022-04-07). United Campus Workers Fight for Wage Increase at UofSC. liberationnews.org 
Following a victory in their campaign for graduate student health insurance last year, workers at the University of South Carolina (UofSC) are calling on the university to raise its minimum wage to $15 per hour.
(2022-04-07). Amit Sengupta's reflections on the effects of globalization on healthcare. peoplesdispatch.org Multilateral and bilateral institutions as well private philanthropy have had an outsized role in shaping the global health policy agenda. In this piece, Amit Sengupta traces the changes globalization has brought to global health governance.
(2022-04-07). Fighting for health for all today. peoplesdispatch.org In a special edition of People's Health Dispatch published on World Health Day, health activists Dr. Abhishek Royal (India), Rhiannon Osborne (UK), and Denis Saffer (Brazil) talk about the concept of Health for All and the meaning it will continue to have in future days of the struggle for health.
(2022-04-07). Health activism is now more important than ever. peoplesdispatch.org World Health Day on April 7 celebrates the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948. The People's Health Movement (PHM) was formed in 2000 in response to the growing belief of health activists around the world that the WHO had lost its connection to people at the grassroots. | The WHO's founding ambition of 'Health for All' had not been achieved at all — massive inequities between and within nations were growing, not reducing, and the WHO's Alma Ata vision of a comprehensive primary health care had been lost behind privatized health systems and nearly all health systems focu…
(2022-04-07). Role identifier badges can assist patients, reduce perceptions of bias in health care setting, Mayo Clinic study finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Patients see a wide variety of medical professionals during a hospital stay, and it can be challenging for them to remember the titles and roles of everyone involved in their care. Many hospitals use name tags and other visual cues to help patients know who's providing their care, but misidentification remains an issue. Resident physicians are often misidentified by patients and colleagues in hospitals, and it's especially common for female residents, according…
(2022-04-07). Mayo Clinic earns highest score on LGBTQ Health Equality Index survey. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic in Arizona, Florida and Rochester earned 100 —the highest score possible —on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's 2022 Health Equality Index survey. These locations have been recognized as "Leaders in LGBTQ+ Healthcare" for 2022. With numerous different locations as a factor, Mayo Clinic Health System did not participate. The Human Rights Campaign Foundation is the largest civil rights organization in the U.S., working to achieve equality for LGBTQ people. The Foundation uses its…
(2022-04-07). Sharing Mayo Clinic: Thankful for Tygh. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Arriving full-term amidst a flurry of excitement, Tygh Derossett's birth at a Kentucky hospital in 2016 mimicked that of most newborns. He cried, he received Apgar scoring, and he got a bath. On his second day of life, Tygh's health care team took a few drops of his blood and sent it to Kentucky's newborn screening lab. A few days later, Tygh left the hospital with his parents, Amanda and Aarron, and the new family…
(2022-04-07). Third Cohort of Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University MedTech Accelerator Commences. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Next-generation medical technology and service startups take part in a boot camp designed to increase product quality, efficiency and speed to market TEMPE, Ariz. — More than two years into a global pandemic, the clear need for innovative medical breakthroughs has never been more obvious. The Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University (ASU) MedTech Accelerator, a flagship program of the Mayo Clinic and ASU Alliance for Health Care, was designed to help empower medical startups to…
(2022-04-07). David Sanders on being a health activist. peoplesdispatch.org David Sanders talks about his life as a health activist, the role of Primary Health Care for the Health for All agenda, and how neoliberalism obstructs possible advances in global health…
(2022-04-07). TCM helps treat virus cases in Shanghai. ecns.cn The integration of traditional Chinese medicine with the treatment of COVID-19 has proved effective and won popularity among patients during the current outbreak in Shanghai, authorities said.
(2022-04-07). China's time-honored trade fair to go online amid COVID-19. ecns.cn China's time-honored trade fair, China Import and Export Fair, will hold its 131st event online from April 15 to April 24 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Commerce said Thursday.
(2022-04-07). Día Mundial de la Salud: Siete datos claves para una vida sana. telesurtv.net La epidemia de Covid-19 acapara las atenciones, y no pasa por alto que para prevenirla es vital fortalecer el sistema inmune. Ello implica hábitos de vida saludables.
(2022-04-07). Cuba reporta 654 nuevos casos positivos a la COVID-19, ningún fallecido y 814 altas. cubadebate.cu Cuba confirmó al cierre de este miércoles 6 de abril, 654 casos positivos a la COVID-19, ningún fallecido y 814 altas. Se atienden en las terapias intensivas 30 pacientes confirmados de ellos 9 críticos y 21 graves.
(2022-04-07). COVID-hit Shanghai builds makeshift hospital in 9 days. ecns.cn A mobile cabin hospital with a capacity of 2,000 beds has been built by the China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Group in Shanghai to thwart the latest COVID-19 outbreak.
(2022-04-07). Over 12.8 mln children in U.S. infected with COVID-19. ecns.cn Over 12.8 million children have tested positive for COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic, according to the latest report by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children's Hospital Association.
(2022-04-07). Federal judge in Virginia issues ruling reinstating COVID mask mandate for small number of immunocompromised school children. wsws.org The judge's ruling on mask mandates was limited only to the schools attended by the plaintiffs, leaving millions of families elsewhere fully at risk.
(2022-04-07). Biden's rhetoric hampering efforts to resolve situation in Ukraine — Brazil's ex-president. tass.com According to Fernando Collor de Mello, the current situation in Ukraine is highly complicated and it's unlikely that ways to resolve it will be determined in the near future…
(2022-04-07). US to ship 10 Javelin missiles for 'every Russian tank' in Ukraine, Blinken says. tass.com US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in an interview for NBC Wednesday…
(2022-04-07). Solidarity picnic and walk-a-thon for Cuba. greenleft.org.au Jim McIlroy reports on a picnic and walk-a-thon in solidarity with Cuba that was organised by the Australia-Cuba Friendship Society.
(2022-04-07). Billionaire Elon Musk buys his way onto Twitter's board of directors. wsws.org The richest man in the world has purchased 9.1 percent of Twitter shares ($2.6 billion) since January and he has now been given a seat on the company's board of directors.