(2023-11-28). WHO's close links to Gates and Big Pharma make the Pandemic Treaty a fundamental threat to our national sovereignty and personal liberty. expose-news.com Intended to form part of international law, preparations for the creation of a World Health Organisation ("WHO") Pandemic Treaty or Pandemic Accord began in 2001. Far from strengthening the prevention of, preparedness …
(2023-11-29). "Slow death": Israel weaponizes disease in the Gaza genocide. wsws.org Israel and its imperialist backers have used the destruction of hospitals, starvation and dehydration as weapons for the mass murder of the population of Gaza.
(2023-11-28). Nefecon approved for use in China. ecns.cn Everest Medicines announced to media on Monday that China's National Medical Products Administration has approved its innovative medicine Nefecon for the treatment of primary immunoglobulin A nephropathy in adults at risk of disease progression.
(2023-11-28). Newly reported AIDS cases in Beijing down 49 pecent since 2016. ecns.cn The overall HIV/AIDS epidemic in Beijing is at a low prevalence level, with a steady decline in the number of new cases, said the city's center for disease control and prevention on Sunday.
(2023-11-28). Heat-Related Deaths From CVD Expected to Surge by Midcentury. jamanetwork.com The number of excess cardiovascular disease (CVD) deaths related to extreme heat is projected to climb to 4320 deaths per year in the US by 2065, an increase of 162% compared with the period between 2008 and 2019. The estimates are based on a model that assumes adherence to proposed emissions reduction policies. However, should levels of emissions grow substantially, that number could reach 5491 excess CVD deaths by midcentury—an increase of 233% compared with the current period.
(2023-11-28). CDC Report: Health Worker Mental Health Crisis Continued in 2022. jamanetwork.com Health workers continued to experience higher levels of burnout and worse mental health in 2022 than in 2018, according to a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analysis of survey results from 3395 workers, 551 of whom were health workers. About 44% of health workers indicated that they were somewhat or very likely to look for a new job in 2022.
(2023-11-28). USPSTF Recommendation on Screening for Lipid Disorders in Children and Adolescents. jamanetwork.com To the Editor We disagree with the recent recommendation from the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) against lipid screening in the pediatric population. If misinterpreted, this statement could have widespread implications that adversely affect the health of youths with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). Familial hypercholesterolemia is a relatively common semidominant genetic condition that, if untreated, leads to cumulative exposure to low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and premature atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD).
(2023-11-28). USPSTF Recommendation on Screening for Lipid Disorders in Children and Adolescents. jamanetwork.com To the Editor The preamble to the USPSTF Recommendation Statement on screening for lipid disorders in children and adolescents states that the USPSTF is committed to mitigating the health inequities that prevent people from fully benefiting from preventive services. However, the conclusion of that Recommendation Statement that there is insufficient evidence to recommend screening for lipid disorders in children and adolescents may contribute to inequities in the prevention of heart disease later in life.
(2023-11-28). USPSTF Recommendation on Screening for Lipid Disorders in Children and Adolescents. jamanetwork.com To the Editor The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality describes the USPSTF as follows: "The USPSTF works to improve the health of people nationwide by making evidenced-based recommendations on effective ways to prevent disease and prolong life." This is a serious and important mandate.
(2023-11-28). 10 drugs to fight HIV, TB, malaria to be vulnerable to climate change. plenglish.com United Nations, Nov 28 (Prensa Latina) UNITAD, an international financing mechanism for treating several diseases, warned on Tuesday that 10 products to combat HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria would be vulnerable to climate change.
(2023-11-29). Wuhan cash for medical certificates investigation underway. ecns.cn The Wuhan health authority suspended a hospital and a judicial appraisal institute from conducting certain services on Tuesday, in the wake of them being accused online of involvement in illegal activities such as faking paternity results.
(2023-11-29). National Single Payer, a Health Care Justice Organization in the U.S., Denounces Targeting of Hospitals in the Gaza Strip and U.S. Complicity in Genocide. counterpunch.org 
As a national, grassroots, social justice organization that organizes locally in the struggle for national single payer health care in the U.S., united by the common principles that health care is a human right, must be free from corporate profit, and must be achieved through national legislation, the Steering Committee of National Single Payerfeels it is
(2023-11-29). Without Predators Ecosystems Become Zoos. counterpunch.org 
The omnivorous grizzly bear is the quintessential indicator of ecosystem health. It is known as an "umbrella" species due to its wide range and specific habitat requirements including security. Scientists have found that as many as 300 other species are protected under the grizzly umbrella. Grizzly bears are an indicator in landscape changes brought about by climate change that may affect food sources and numerous other species.
(2023-11-29). 'Gaza health situation catastrophic despite truce; hospitals buckle under shortage'. presstv.ir Gaza Health Ministry spokesman warns about the "catastrophic" situation of hospitals in Gaza despite a truce.
(2023-11-29). Australia: Western Sydney health workers protest Israel's genocide in Gaza. wsws.org For the second time in a week, workers demonstrated at Westmead Hospital in opposition to the assault on Palestine and Israel's targeting of health workers.
(2023-11-28). Cuban Parliament calls for second ordinary session. plenglish.com The sessions will begin on December 20 of this year, starting at 9: 00 a.m. (local time), at the Convention Palace in the capital. | According to previous information, the provincial governments of Cienfuegos and Las Tunas, as well as the Ministry of Industry, in its capacity as an Agency of the Central State Administration, will render an account at the meeting of the Legislative Body. | In both territories, compliance with the objectives and goals of the Economy Plan and the State Budget Law will be evaluated, with emphasis on the performance of basic services to the population, such as health, education, trans…
(2023-11-28). Is It Time (Once Again) for Nonviolent Rebellion? tomdispatch.com When I was in my early twenties, I seriously considered murdering someone. He had given my best friend genital herpes, which many health practitioners then believed was the agent responsible for causing cervical cancer in women. (It wasn't.) Back in the 1970s, though, I believed that, by infecting my friend, he might have set in motion a process that would someday kill her. That he was an arrogant jerk made it that much easier for me to contemplate murdering him. But there was a larger context to my private dream of revenge. My anger was also fed by a growing awareness that so many of us were just then acquiring…
(2023-11-28). The Lord of "Vaccines" and the "Health Terrorist Ideology". Where Do You Think this Is Going? Get Off that Crazy Train. globalresearch.ca "A tyrant needs above all a tyrant-state, so he will use a million little civil servant tyrants who each have a trivial task to perform, and each will perform that task competently, and without remorse"
(2023-11-28). Committee calls for action on adolescents' mental health. ecns.cn New techniques and multidisciplinary measures should be applied to intervention in adolescents' mental health, an expert said in response to the grim psychological issues affecting students in China.
(2023-11-28). Survey: Which Children Visit ED for Mental Health Concerns, and Why. jamanetwork.com More children seek care for mental health disorders today than a decade ago, researchers have shown. During that time, the proportion of pediatric visits to the emergency department (ED) for mental health symptoms increased relative to visits related to other health concerns. Now, a report by the National Center for Health Statistics quantifies the characteristics of children who tended to seek care in the ED for mental health concerns using data from more than 1 million visits between 2018 and 2021.
(2023-11-28). WHO: What Regulators Should Consider for AI in Health Care. jamanetwork.com A new publication by the World Health Organization (WHO) identifies key areas for governments and regulatory bodies to consider when integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into health care. The areas of regulation include transparency about AI technology development, external validation of data, and collaboration among stakeholders to maintain the regulatory compliance of AI products throughout their life cycles.
(2023-11-28). Made of Flower and Flame: Poetry and Climate Change. jamanetwork.com The natural world, long a source of delight and repose and so often celebrated in poetry, is changing. As the impact of human activity harmful to the earth's climate and global health continues to be documented, so too has contemporary poetry responded in its own terms in the work of poets like Gary Snyder and Terry Tempest Williams, and in this issue's "Persephone Explains Global Warming." Florid, overheated language evokes the globe's astonishing variety of biota and the threat posed by rising temperatures. "Unphas[ed] tides" and "blister[ed] trees" are metaphors for nature gone awry. The poem's version of the…
(2023-11-28). Anti-Abortion Groups Made Sure Abortion Ban Exceptions Didn't Happen. truthout.org After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending nearly 50 years of federal protection for abortion, some states began enforcing strict abortion bans while others became new havens for the procedure. ProPublica is investigating how sweeping changes to reproductive health care access in America are affecting people, institutions and governments. State Rep. Taylor Rehfeldt was speaking on the… |
(2023-11-28). People in Gaza are in extreme health needs — WHO. plenglish.com People are starving and lacking clean water; if someone is sick, if a child has diarrhea, if someone has a respiratory infection, they won't get any assistance, WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris said. | The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) described as devastating the context in Gaza Strip after the entry of more personnel amid the pause agreed on November 24. | UNICEF ¥s spokesperson James Elder termed the Nasser Medical Complex, located in southern Gaza, as a war zone. | "Everywhere you look at there is a child in incredible need," Elder told Al Jazeera, praising the "incredible, courageous and tireless health wo…
(2023-11-28). Childhood obesity, the COVID-19 pandemic, and ultra-processed foods in Brazil. peoplesdispatch.org 
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to reverberate in many aspects of life in Brazil, with nutrition being one of them. A survey conducted by Fiocruz's Childhood Health Observatory (Observa Infância) analyzed data on overweight and obesity among children and adolescents in the country and in each region. The findings revealed that the pandemic has contributed to an increase in overweight among age groups up to 5 years old and between 10 and 18 years old. However, the problem was already serious before the pandemic, as Brazil surpasses the global and Latin American averages for childhood obesity. | "We tend to blame s…
(2023-11-28). Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC): The Weaponization of Money? WHO's Health Tyranny: Towards a Totalitarian World Government? No Way! globalresearch.ca
(2023-11-28). Poverty and Climate Overheating: Flip Sides of One Coin. counterpunch.org 
I retired in 2020 after decades as a mental health outreach worker. My job involved going out to my clients' apartments — usually in sprawling housing projects or in "section 8" apartments in run down neighborhoods. Some of my clients slept in backyard sheds or abandoned factories and I met with them on playgrounds, parking
(2023-11-28). New Zealand Government will inform WHO it does not agree to International Health Regulations amendments. expose-news.com The newly sworn-in New Zealand government intends not to be pushed around by UN resolutions or by the World Health Organisation anymore. According to a coalition agreement with New Zealand First, the …
(2023-11-28). Jeremy Scahill: Israel's "Lethal Lie" About Al-Shifa Hospital as Hamas Base Was Co-Signed by Biden. democracynow.org 
The Intercept's Jeremy Scahill deconstructs Israel's narrative around Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital, including unsubstantiated allegations Hamas uses tunnels under the hospital as its command center — tunnels that Israel itself built. "We were told that this was like a Hamas Pentagon," says Scahill, who describes how the Israeli military's own evidence disproves its allegations that the hospital was dangerous enough to justify its siege and bombardment. The World Health Organization says Al-Shifa, Gaza's largest hospital, "is no longer functioning." The Israeli d…
(2023-11-28). Surge of respiratory illness in northern China part of global outbreak of pneumonia among children. wsws.org Cases of influenza-like illnesses have seen thousands of children hospitalized recently. China's health authorities have told the World Health Organization that these illnesses are being caused by the continuing rise in mycoplasma pneumonias combined with other known seasonal viral pathogens.
(2023-11-28). Uttarakhand tunnel rescue: All 41 trapped workers evacuated after 17 days of nonstop digging. geo.tv 
The labourers trapped in Uttarakhand collapsed tunnel received sustenance through a 53-meter pipe and remained in good health…
(2023-11-28). Ex-Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson opens up on 'worrying' health concerns. geo.tv 
Jeremy Clarkson expresses concerns over hearing loss, risk of developing dementia; reveals he will be using hearing aids…
(2023-11-28). Sabotaging EU Pesticide Reduction Law (SUR). pressenza.com 
Pesticide industry lobby's reckless assault on biodiversity and health | It is make-or-break time for several urgent key topics under the EU's Green Deal and its Farm to Fork Strategy. In June this year for example, the Nature Restoration Law became the center of a turbulent media storm when the right-wing conservative group in the European Parliament tried to kill it as part of a publicity stunt to launch their EU election campaign. | Next up will be the pesticide reduction law (Sustainable Use Regulation, or SUR), which has been under attack from the very start. Industry lobbies and their allies have waged a re…
(2023-11-28). C-Care Uganda marks men health awareness 'Movember'. independent.co.ug 
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | C-Care Uganda, Uganda's largest private healthcare network, has this month, joined the rest of the world to raise men's health awareness, with special attention to testicular and prostate cancers. The healthcare providers kicked off the month by providing discounted prostate and testicular cancer screening in all their clinics countrywide. …
(2023-11-28). House GOP-Led Hearing Is a Trojan Horse for Social Security Cuts, Critics Warn. truthout.org The Republican-controlled House Budget Committee is set to convene a hearing Wednesday to examine legislation that would establish a so-called fiscal commission for the U.S. debt, a proposal that critics have called a Trojan horse for Social Security and Medicare cuts. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), a longtime proponent of Social Security cuts, described such a commission as one of his top… |
(2023-11-29). Why Vaccine-Pushing Cardiologists Never See Myocarditis. globalresearch.ca
(2023-11-29). Covid Mindwars: Was it Really Smarter People Who Accepted the COVID-19 "Vaccines"? expose-news.com By Simon Lee, Science Officer, Anew UK "Mindwar is about gaming and sculpting perception of reality. Another way of saying it is that Mindwar is about building the Matrix, or perhaps directing …
(2023-11-29). If there had been no unusual covid measures taken, no unusual illness would have been noticed; was the "pandemic" needed to roll out "vaccines"? expose-news.com In October 2022 Pandemics Analytics & Data ("PANDA") published a document summarising the group of professionals' thoughts on the products called "covid vaccines." Their comprehensive multidisciplinary review found that mass covid vaccination …
(2023-11-28). FDA Will Evaluate First Self-Administered FluMist Vaccine. jamanetwork.com The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agreed to review an application to allow eligible adult patients to self-administer FluMist, AstraZeneca's nasal spray flu vaccine that uses a live, weakened version of the virus to prompt an immune response. Under the application, caregivers would also be able to administer the vaccine to people aged 2 to 49 years who are not immunocompromised.
(2023-11-28). FDA approves Pfizer's maternal RSV vaccine despite trial safety signals of increased premature birth. expose-news.com
(2023-11-29). COVID cases in the US have risen 50 percent in four weeks. wsws.org Undoutbedly, concentrations of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater will surge even more in the weeks ahead, as the impacts of record holiday travel on viral transmission are fully logged.
(2023-11-28). Elderly taking advantage of off-peak tours. ecns.cn In the year to mid-October, the number of travelers aged over 55 making bookings on its platform was double that in the same period last year, when strict COVID-19 pandemic precautions were in place.
(2023-11-28). Convalescent Plasma Lowered Risk of Death in COVID-19 ARDS. jamanetwork.com Patients with COVID-19—induced acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS, who were treated with convalescent plasma from recovered donors between September 2020 through March 2022 had a lower risk of death at about 1 month compared with those who received standard care, according to results from 475 participants, almost all of whom were also treated with glucocorticoids. About 35% of participants in the treatment group died by day 28 compared with 45% in the standard-care group.
(2023-11-28). Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in US Nursing Homes—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply Dr Bergman highlights a number of important potential barriers to COVID-19 antiviral treatment use in nursing homes, including rapidly evolving guidelines concerning the use of monoclonal antibodies, insufficient supply of recommended monoclonal antibodies, and high staffing needs to administer monoclonal antibodies intravenously. These factors likely contributed to the low antiviral treatment rates observed in our study, when monoclonal antibodies were the only treatment available.
(2023-11-28). Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in US Nursing Homes. jamanetwork.com To the Editor A recent Research Letter examined COVID-19 treatment rates in US nursing homes from May 31, 2021, through December 25, 2022, and found that only 1 in 4 nursing home residents with COVID-19 had been treated with antiviral treatments and that more than 40% of nursing homes reported never administering any oral antiviral or monoclonal antibody treatment in the 19-month study window. As a practicing nursing home attending physician and medical director, I wish to elaborate on some of the barriers to treatment in nursing homes to highlight policy changes that could improve treatment rates in future pande…