(2022-10-01). BRICS cardiovascular health center inaugurated in China's Xiamen. ecns.cn The BRICS Cardiovascular Health Innovation Center was inaugurated in Xiamen, east China's Fujian Province, on Thursday, which marks the World Heart Day.
(2022-10-01). [World Report] Lasker Awards 2022. thelancet.com Scientists were honoured for work on integrins, the development of non-invasive tests for Down syndrome, and tracking COVID-19 infections. Talha Burki reports.
(2022-10-01). State Attorney General Urged to Investigate Sutter Health's Use of CARES Act Money. indybay.org DALY CITY — San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa announced that he has sent a letter to California Attorney General Rob Bonta urging him to investigate Sutter Health's use of federal CARES Act dollars. The not-for-profit health care giant received $853 million in CARES Act funding, yet closed the Mack E. Mickelson therapy pool, the only warm water rehabilitation facility of its kind on the Peninsula. | "The federal CARES Act of 2020 was passed for the express purpose of keeping vital medical and community resources like the Mickelson therapy pool open during the COVID pandemic," Canepa said. "Yet despit…
(2022-10-01). Cancer-Causing Pesticide exceeds State risk levels over the last decade at Monterey County. indybay.org Concerned about the use of the cancer-causing drift-prone pesticide 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D), more than pesticide reform advocates, including farmworkers, health professionals, teachers, and their allies held a news conference and rally at the Monterey County Government Center on Tuesday, September 27th — the 60th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. The group, organized by Safe Ag Safe Schools and the Monterey Bay Central Labor Council, called on the County Ag Commissioner to reduce 1,3-D use and web-post warnings. | The news conference can be seen in its entirety at: https…
(2022-10-01). Australia ends COVID isolation requirements: Business hails "freedom," medical experts warn of mass deaths. wsws.org The end of any infection control by the federal Labor government means that current COVID deaths, already at record levels, will be dwarfed by the mass casualties to come.
(2022-10-01). The Rise of Public Health and 'Green' Police: Securitization Theory. globalresearch.ca
(2022-10-01). Fall surge of COVID-19 begins across Northern Europe. wsws.org A new wave of COVID-19 infections is beginning to accelerate across Northern Europe. With the prediction of a severe flu season, combining these deadly pathogens will significantly affect the population's health.
(2022-10-01). [Comment] Coloniality and racism impacts the health of young people. thelancet.com As Indigenous Māori health researchers, our vision is for all young people to thrive and flourish as our leaders of today and to live free from all forms of discrimination. Yet, in the nation state currently known as New Zealand, it is clear this experience is not shared by all. In The Lancet, Rachel Simon-Kumar, Sonia Lewycka, and colleagues1 examine experiences of racism and their effects in terms of socioeconomic inequities, interpersonal discrimination, and health inequities between and among the privileged majority and Indigenous Māori and ethnic minority young people in New Zealand.
(2022-10-01). [Correspondence] A healthy future for children and adolescents — Authors' reply. thelancet.com We are greatly heartened by the positive response to our Series on optimising child and adolescent health and development.1—4 We are also cognisant of the suggestions that the Series could have highlighted some areas more emphatically. As in any synthesis covering the entire period of pre-conception, pregnancy, early infancy, middle childhood, and adolescence, we aimed for a high-level discourse and a parsimonious set of messages supporting integrated services across the life course. We encourage everyone to consider the Series and the linked Comment5 in their entirety because most of the areas highlighted…
(2022-10-01). [Perspectives] Biopower, racism, and yellow fever. thelancet.com The COVID-19 pandemic has forced all of us to think anew about the power of disease and public health in our lives. The pandemic has influenced the world of politics and government, and reshaped regional built environments to accommodate the threat of disease. Historians of medicine are familiar with how the response to disease reveals a particular society's values and preferences—who it values and who can be disposed of. Achille Mbembe has called this "biopower": who are considered worthy of protection and whose lives are considered expendable.
(2022-10-01). [Perspectives] Rhea Boyd: paediatrician advocating for health equity. thelancet.com Rhea Boyd describes herself as a paediatrician, a public health advocate, and a scholar who works at a paediatric clinic, as the Director of Equity and Justice for The California Children's Trust, and as a co-developer of The Conversation: Between Us About Us, a campaign that provides credible information about COVID-19 vaccines to Black and Latinx communities across the USA.
(2022-10-01). US pediatric hospitals face massive crisis due to COVID and other respiratory viruses. wsws.org The full reopening of K-12 schools with no masking or other mitigation measures in place has caused a surge of multiple respiratory viruses.
(2022-10-01). Sunday 10/30: Film: Plague at the Golden Gate Screening and Panel Discussion. indybay.org San Francisco Main Library | 100 Larkin St | San Francisco, CA 94102…
(2022-10-01). [Correspondence] A healthy future for children and adolescents. thelancet.com We congratulate the authors of the Series on optimising child and adolescent health and development, which is a vital initiative. Although the Series prominently includes social determinants of health and refers to social support, the insufficient emphasis on environmental determinants of child health is a crucial omission, especially in the context of the looming threat of climate breakdown.
(2022-10-01). [Articles] Flexible resources and experiences of racism among a multi-ethnic adolescent population in Aotearoa, New Zealand: an intersectional analysis of health and socioeconomic inequities using survey data. thelancet.com Indigenous and ethnic minority experiences of racism are heterogeneous. Structural flexible resources (wealth) and, more substantially, embodiment flexible resources (perceived Whiteness) mitigate individual experiences of racism. In multi-ethnic western societies, anti-racist interventions and policies must address both structural deprivation and associated intergenerational mobility and colourism (ie, implicit and explicit bias against non-White youth).
(2022-10-01). Taiwan to cancel home quarantine requirement for arriving travelers. ecns.cn Starting on Oct. 13, travelers arriving in Taiwan will no longer be required to submit themselves to home quarantine and will instead undergo seven days of self-initiated prevention after arrival, the island's disease monitoring agency has announced.
(2022-10-01). Munich Oktoberfest emerges as COVID superspreader event in Germany. wsws.org While a new COVID wave is gathering pace in Germany, the federal and state governments are dismantling the last remaining mitigation measures and promoting a "live with the virus" strategy.
(2022-09-30). BRICS Nations Call for More Cooperation on Disaster Management. infobrics.org The BRICS nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — have pledged to boost cooperation on disaster management against the backdrop of exacerbating climate change, increasingly frequent natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic…
(2022-09-30). Integrity Optional. Lies and Dishonor Plague America's War Machine. globalresearch.ca
(2022-09-30). Employers' Productivity Standards Are Not Real Science. popularresistance.org Whether you're working in a warehouse or piano factory, processing insurance claims, or taking care of patients, the use of worker productivity monitoring continues to expand. | Workplaces where jobs are monitored and measured—and workers required to meet certain performance metrics—pose a particular set of challenges for stewards. | Most historians recognize Fredrick Winslow Taylor and his 1911 book The Principles of Scientific Management as the genesis of these schemes. Taylor's technology was basic by today's standards: clipboards and stopwatches. | Frank and Lillian Gilbreth (of Cheaper by the Doz…
(2022-09-30). Lies and Dishonor Plague America's War Machine. commondreams.org Despite the lies, the U.S. war machine has suffered no consequences for their mendacity and malfeasance.
(2022-09-30). For Haitian Asylum Seekers, Biden Is The More Effective Evil. popularresistance.org For many 2020 voters of Presidential candidate Joe Biden and Vice-Presidential candidate Kamala Harris, their historic electoral win would symbolize a drastic change from the vituperative language and callous policies that came to define the chaotic and destructive Trump years. Whether it was the Trump administration's criminalization of asylum seekers, separation of mother and child at the border through their cruel "zero tolerance" strategy, reduction in refugee resettlement, or use of xenophobic rhetoric before racializing a viral disease like COVID-19 that would stoke rampant Sinophobia, a more "compassionate…
(2022-09-30). Fracking: The Scientific Evidence of Adverse Health Effects That Governments Aren't Telling You About. globalresearch.ca
(2022-09-30). Venezuela to Export Medicine to Colombia. orinocotribune.com On Tuesday, September 27, The Vice Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Promotion (VCEPI), Johann àÅlvarez Márquez, held a meeting with the Chamber of the Pharmaceutical Industry (Cifar) to discuss the commencement of the process of exporting medicine to Colombia. Antibiotics, analgesics, and anti-inflammatories are some of the products that will be exported. | àÅlvarez Márquez reported that at this time the national government, collaborating with the private sector, is ready to cover the national production of medicine, protect the pharmaceutical industry, and export Venezuelan products of excell…
(2022-09-30). Inside Derrick Hayes And Pinky Cole's Goal To Sign Up 25,000 Black Men For Life Insurance, Pay 1st Year Of Coverage. moguldom.com 
Entrepreneurial power couple Pinky Cole and Derrick Hayes of Slutty Vegan and Big Dave's Cheesesteaks fame are not strangers to using their creative and financial prowess to give back to the community. One of those initiatives aims to help Black men in a major way. The Atlanta-based duo launched Square 1: The Liife Experience in June 2021 to provide 25,000 Black …
(2022-09-30). Australian Research Reveals How COVID-19 Damages Heart. telesurenglish.net A new research led by Australia's University of Queensland (UQ) discovered how COVID-19 damages the heart. The study found that while both COVID-19 and influenza are severe respiratory viruses, they appeared to affect cardiac tissue very differently. | RELATED: | The research used actual cardiac tissues collected during autopsies from seven COVID-19 patients from Brazil, two people who died from influenza, and six control patie…
(2022-09-30). Breaking: Leaked Video Reveals Serious Side-Effects Related to the Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Covered Up by the Israeli MOH. globalresearch.ca
(2022-09-30). No to another school year of mass infection and death! Mobilize Canada's education workers to fight for the global elimination of COVID-19! wsws.org Governments in every province, from John Horgan's New Democrats in British Columbia to the hard-right Ford Tories in Ontario, reopened schools at the beginning of this month after dismantling all remaining COVID public health measures.
(2022-09-30). AEOI to increase capacity of developing radiopharmaceuticals. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 30 (MNA) — As Iran is one of the leading countries in the world in producing radiopharmaceuticals, Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) emphasized on increasing development capacity of this sector.
(2022-09-30). Jarbas Barbosa da Silva es elegido director de la OPS. telesurtv.net Barbosa ocupaba el cargo de subdirector de la OPS, donde ha liderado los esfuerzos de la organización para aumentar el acceso equitativo a las vacunas contra la Covid-19.
(2022-09-30). Special Report: Black Mental Health Resources In Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Chicago, And Los Angeles. moguldom.com Although African Americans are 20 percent more likely to experience serious mental health issues due to various factors, they are also less open to seeking professional help. Just one in three Black people who struggle with mental health issues will seek out the appropriate treatment. The hesitancy to seek professional mental health is due to a misunderstanding …
(2022-09-29). Reset in bilateral ties seen benefiting all. ecns.cn Putting China-U.S. relations back on the track of healthy and stable development at an early date serves the fundamental interests of the two peoples and meets the expectations of the international community.
(2022-09-29). Three People Share How Ankle Monitoring Devices Fail, Harm, and Stigmatize. aclu.org 
In 2020, as the world grappled with the emergence of COVID-19, prisons and jails became Electronic monitoring typically uses GPS tracking systems in devices referr…
(2022-09-29). The right-wing record of the "Quebec First" CAQ government. wsws.org The Coalition avenir Québec's (CAQ) first-ever term in office was marked by a disastrous response to the COVID-19 pandemic, brutal anti-worker measures and the promotion of virulent Quebec chauvinism.
(2022-09-29). Famous Pro-Vaccine Doctor Suspects Pfizer Booster Shot Sent His Cancer Into Overdrive. globalresearch.ca
(2022-09-29). Una acusación al capitalismo moderno. workers.org 
Imagínese que el gobierno de Joe Biden y el Congreso hubieran acordado gastar 54.000 millones de dólares para impulsar la atención sanitaria en Estados Unidos mientras las variantes del COVID-19 seguían cobrándose más vidas. En lugar de que la esperanza de vida disminuyera por segundo año consecutivo, se habrían salvado . . . |