(2024-01-05). Ralph Nader on "The Rebellious CEO," His Upcoming 90th Birthday & Remembering Dr. Sidney Wolfe. democracynow.org Part 2 of our conversation with Ralph Nader, legendary consumer advocate, corporate critic and four-time former presidential candidate. He talks about his new book, The Rebellious CEO: 12 Leaders Who Did It Right, and the death of his longtime colleague Dr. Sidney Wolfe, who spent decades fighting the Food and Drug Administration and pharmaceutical industry and is credited with helping to force 28 dangerous medications off the market. | Part 2 of our conversation with Ralph Nader, legendary consumer advocate, corporate critic and four-time former presidential candidate. He talks about his new book, The Rebellious C…
(2024-01-05). Selected Articles: How Long Can Israel Defy the World? globalresearch.ca 
By As Israel takes out hospitals and civilian infrastructure, infectious diseases and famine threaten to kill many more people. Several Israeli soldiers have been reported …
(2024-01-05). Afghanistan: Infectious Disease Outbreaks – Epidemiological week #52, 2023 (24—30 Dec 2023) Situation Report #52. reliefweb.int 
(2024-01-05). Convergence of HIV and non-communicable disease epidemics: geospatial mapping of the unmet health needs in an HIV hyperendemic community in South Africa. reliefweb.int Country: South Africa | Source: British Medical Journal | Diego F Cuadros, Chayanika Devi, Urisha Singh, Stephen Olivier, Alison C Castle, Yumna Moosa, Johnathan A Edwards, Hae-Young Kim, Mark J Siedner, Emily B Wong, Frank Tanser | Abstract | Introduction As people living with HIV (PLHIV) are experiencing longer survival, the co-occurrence of HIV and non-communicable diseases has become a public health priority. In response to this emerging challenge, we aimed to characterise the spatial structure of convergence of chronic health conditions in an HIV hyperendemic community in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. | Me…
(2024-01-05). COVID cases rising in US. ecns.cn COVID cases are rising in the United States, and one variant seems to be fueling the virus' spread, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
(2024-01-05). Baby formula prices and production practices impact availability. peoplesdispatch.org Persistent issues in baby formula production and pricing continue to impact families. As prices rise, carers are struggling to feed infants in many parts of the Global North…
(2024-01-05). An Environmental Activist's Guide To The Great Barrington Declaration. popularresistance.org The Great Barrington Declaration (GBD) is standard issue libertarian free market ideology sanded down to fit the confines of public health — this document (coauthored by three highly credentialed academics: Sunetra Gupta of Oxford, Martin Kulldorff of Harvard, and Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford) recommended that governments do nothing to combat a once in a century pandemic destined globally to obliterate as many as 27 million lives. | The fever dream enshrined in every libertarian narrative holds that "self regulating forces" exhibit a mystical benevolence only realized when governments retreat, and defer to…
(2024-01-05). Covid test mandatory in Karnataka for patients with respiratory and flu-like illnesses. devdiscourse.com Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao on Friday said he has directed health officials to make Covid test mandatory for those with Influenza Like Illness (ILI) or Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI).
(2024-01-05). Ricky Rubio and Other Top Elite Athletes Tying Retirement to Mental Health Concerns. latintimes.com
(2024-01-05). Utah Bills Itself as "Family-Friendly" Even as Lawmakers Have Long Neglected Child Care. truthout.org For nearly a year, Melanie Call struggled to balance working from home full time with caring for her new baby. Her job as a project manager for a Salt Lake City health care staffing agency required spending hours in video meetings. If her son was awake, she would turn off her camera. When he woke from a nap while she was already occupied in a meeting, she would feel her guilt grow as she heard him… |
(2024-01-04). China establishes five new medical disciplines for universities. ecns.cn China has established five new medical disciplines including Geriatrics and Health in a bid to cultivate talent with urgent needs and provide support for safeguarding public health"…
(2024-01-05). Monday 1/8: San Francisco: Healthcare Workers for Ceasefire! indybay.org San Francisco City Hall | 1 Dr Carlton B Goodlett Pl | San Francisco, CA…
(2024-01-05). Recruitment Problems Plague US Military. thealtworld.com Traditionally a few Southern states have provided the backbone of America's military. But times have changed. Today white Southern men don't like black female sergeants in their face. They don't like homosexual sergeants in their face either. They don't like comments from non-military friends about their officers wearing high heels and skirts. And they have heard enough from those forced out because of refusal to take the death vaccine to know that the officers no longer stand up for the troops. | A military headed by a black Secretary of Defense, a female Deputy Secretary of Defense, a black Chairman of the Join…
(2024-01-05). It's Time to Start Paying People to Take Vaccines, Says Oxford Academic Writing in Financial Times. dailysceptic.org It's time to start paying people to take vaccines to boost take-up. That's according to Dr. Raymond Duch, an Oxford academic writing in the Financial Times. This is the lesson he's taken from the Covid pandemic, apparently.
(2024-01-05). Spain's PSOE-Sumar government renews austerity. wsws.org The PSOE-Sumar government is now preparing to roll back all the concessions made to workers at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic and impose the dictates of the European Union on behalf of the banks and major corporations.
(2024-01-05). Why Are So Many Californians Dying? dailysceptic.org Since 2020, California has seen 82,000 excess deaths from non-Covid causes, almost as many as its official Covid death tally. And it still has a higher death rate than no-lockdown Florida.
(2024-01-05). How Australia went from 'lucky country' to 'locked-up country' under COVID-19. greenleft.org.au 
In their book, The Locked-up Country — a play on Donald Horne's The Lucky Country — Tom Chodor and Sharar Hameiri meticulously chronicle how governments opted for seemingly unthinkable measures to control the COVID-19 pandemic. Fred Fuentes reviews.