newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2024-01-30). What do you know about pancreatitis? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Pancreatitis is inflammation of the pancreas, a long, flat gland that lies horizontally behind your stomach. The pancreas produces enzymes for digestion and hormones that regulate the way your body processes sugar. About 275,000 hospital stays for acute pancreatitis occur in the U.S. each year, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease. Chronic pancreatitis is less common, with about 86,000 hospital stays per year. And although pancreatitis is rare in children,…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2024-01-30). Hepatitis B vaccine: What to know to protect yourself. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Hepatitis is inflammation in the liver caused by specific viruses. The hepatitis viruses are referred to as types A, B, C, D and E. All types affect the liver, but they differ in illness severity and prevention options. In the U.S., the most common forms are hepatitis A, hepatitis B and hepatitis C. Acute or chronic hepatitis B Hepatitis B is a serious disease caused by a virus that attacks the liver. It's one of the more…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2024-01-30). Mayo Clinic Minute: Graves' disease – when the thyroid is overactive. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Graves' disease is an autoimmune disorder that triggers the thyroid gland to produce more thyroid hormones than the body needs. It's the most common cause of hyperthyroidism, or an overactive thyroid. Dr. Marius Stan, a Mayo Clinic endocrinologist, has more on this thyroid disorder. Editor's note: January is National Thyroid Disease Awareness Month. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/mhYeuD_Z3Po Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg (1: 05) is in the downloads at the end of this post. Please courtesy: "Mayo…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2024-01-30). Mayo Clinic Minute: Penicillin allergy? Maybe not. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Amoxicillin is a penicillin antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections. Penicillin belongs to a group of antibiotics used by healthcare professionals to combat a wide array of bacterial infections, including strep throat, ear infections and pneumonia. Penicillin, one of the most widely prescribed antibiotics, is also one of the most frequently reported medication allergies. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 10% of people living in the U.S. report having a penicillin allergy. However, less than 1%…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2024-01-30). Measles remains a menace. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org You don't hear much about the measles anymore, but health officials in Philadelphia are keeping an eye on an outbreak in that city. To date, there have been eight confirmed since the investigation began in December. Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse is a pediatric infectious diseases specialist at Mayo Clinic Children's Center. She says measles is a viral infection that used to be a fairly common childhood illness. "Since we've introduced very effective immunization. It's quite rare…

Pacific Community (2024-01-30). World: Epidemic and emerging disease alerts in the Pacific as of 30 January 2024. reliefweb.int Countries: Australia, Fiji, French Polynesia (France), Micronesia (Federated States of), Tokelau, World | Source: Pacific Community | Please refer to the attached Map. | Highlights/updates since the last map was sent on PacNet on 23 January 2024: | Dengue | Tokelau: During the period from 01/01 to 26/01, a total of two cases were detected. Since that start of the outbreak in December 2023, 5 cases have been hospitalized, due to loss of appetite and dehydration. All cases were mild, and no deaths were reported. The star is removed, and the alert is changed to blue. — Source: Personal communication with…

midwesternmarx (2024-01-29). Palestine notes: How Europe projected its unique antisemitism disease on the Middle East By: Palestine Will Be Free. midwesternmarx.com

WSWS (2024-01-29). Jury trial of Oxford High School shooter's mother on manslaughter charges opens in Pontiac, Michigan. wsws.org The effort to convict Jennifer and James Crumbley and send them to prison is, in essence, an attempt to scapegoat them for the broader, toxic social problems of capitalist society that are behind the epidemic of mass shootings in schools and workplaces across the US.

presstv.ir (2024-01-30). In Gaza, famine will be 'inevitable' due to UNRWA funding cuts. presstv.ir "Famine was imminent," and now "inevitable," said Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, on Sunday.

Robert Inlakesh (2024-01-30). The West's Defunding Of UNRWA Has Nothing To Do With Oct 7. thelastamericanvagabond.com The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which is responsible for aiding the Palestinian refugee population and is especially vital to the people of Gaza — now suffering an Israeli imposed famine — has suddenly been defunded by Western nations. The move to withdraw funding comes as an immediate response to Israel's allegation that

Democracy Now! (2024-01-29). Democracy Now! 2024-01-29 Monday. democracynow.org Headlines for January 29, 2024; Drone Strike Kills 3 U.S. Troops in Jordan; Risk Grows of Regional War over Israeli Assault on Gaza; Palestinians Charge Genocide in U.S. Court; Biden, Blinken Sued for Backing Israel's War on Gaza; Chicago ER Doctor Just Back from Gaza Says Patients, Medical Staff Face Catastrophic Conditions; Despite Looming Gaza Famine, U.S. Halts UNRWA Funding After Israel Claims 12 U.N. Staff Aided 10/7 Attack | Headlines for January 29, 2024; Drone Strike Kills 3 U.S. Troops in Jordan; Risk Grows of Regional War over Israeli Assault on Gaza; Palestinians Charge Genocide in U.S. Court; Bid…

Democracy Now! (2024-01-29). Democracy Now! 2024-01-29 Monday. democracynow.org Headlines for January 29, 2024; Drone Strike Kills 3 U.S. Troops in Jordan; Risk Grows of Regional War over Israeli Assault on Gaza; Palestinians Charge Genocide in U.S. Court; Biden, Blinken Sued for Backing Israel's War on Gaza; Chicago ER Doctor Just Back from Gaza Says Patients, Medical Staff Face Catastrophic Conditions; Despite Looming Gaza Famine, U.S. Halts UNRWA Funding After Israel Claims 12 U.N. Staff Aided 10/7 Attack | Headlines for January 29, 2024; Drone Strike Kills 3 U.S. Troops in Jordan; Risk Grows of Regional War over Israeli Assault on Gaza; Palestinians Charge Genocide in U.S. Court; Bid…

Leila Warah (2024-01-29). 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' Day 115: Israel pushes Gazans further south; U.S threatens further regional violence. mondoweiss.net The U.S. government threatens further regional violence on the heels of drone attack that killed three American troops in Jordan. Human rights groups slam countries for pulling funding for UNRWA as Palestinians in Gaza face famine and starvation.

Staff (2024-01-29). Despite Looming Gaza Famine, U.S. Halts UNRWA Funding After Israel Claims 12 U.N. Staff Aided 10/7 Attack. democracynow.org On the same day the U.N.'s highest court accepted South Africa's case alleging genocide in Gaza, Israel accused 12 employees with the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, or UNRWA, of taking part in the Hamas attack on October 7. The United States and at least 10 other nations have now suspended funding to the agency, which retains a staff of over 13,000 and provides essential aid to most of Gaza's 2.3 million residents. "It's the worst possible reaction to these allegations," says Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council. He calls for an investigation but s…

Editor (2024-01-30). Human Rights Officials Warn Aid Cuts Make Gaza Famine 'Inevitable'. scheerpost.com

British Medical Journal (2024-01-30). Trajectories and correlates of poor mental health in India over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide survey. reliefweb.int Country: India | Source: British Medical Journal | Emma Nichols, Sarah Petrosyan, Pranali Khobragade, Joyita Banerjee, Marco Angrisani, Sharmistha Dey, David E Bloom, Simone Schaner, Aparajit B Dey, Jinkook Lee | Abstract | Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic had large impacts on mental health; however, most existing evidence is focused on the initial lockdown period and high-income contexts. By assessing trajectories of mental health symptoms in India over 2 years, we aim to understand the effect of later time periods and pandemic characteristics on mental health in a lower-middle income context. | Methods We…

ecns.cn (2024-01-30). Wellness products on holiday shopping lists. ecns.cn In 2023, healthcare products emerged as the third most popular consumer category among Chinese youth aged 18 to 35, often referred to as Gen Z, trailing only tourism services and tech gadgetry.

ecns.cn (2024-01-30). Researchers raise cloned rhesus monkey to adulthood. ecns.cn Chinese researchers have published a paper in the journal Nature Communications, reporting the successful cloning and survival to three years of a healthy rhesus monkey.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2024-01-30). Mayo Clinic Minute: Why Black women need to be screened for cervical cancer. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org While all women can develop cervical cancer, non-Hispanic Black women are more likely to be diagnosed and die of cervical cancer, compared to white women in the U.S.This disparity is not due to genetic differences among white, Black or Hispanic women, but rather related to systemic racism, access to healthcare and socioeconomic factors, says Dr. Olivia Cardenas-Trowers, a Mayo Clinic urogynecologist. That is why she encourages women to learn more about this often-avoidable cancer and…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2024-01-30). Mayo Clinic Minute: Can vitamin C keep the common cold away? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Winter is cold and flu season. If you take in more vitamin C, will it help prevent you from getting sick? Dr. Jesse Bracamonte, a Mayo Clinic family physician, explains more about the health benefits of vitamin C in this Mayo Clinic Minute. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/uo0fL-RI3x0 Journalists: Broadcast-quality video (1: 05) is in the downloads at the end of this post. Please courtesy: "Mayo Clinic News Network." Read the script. Want to keep…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2024-01-30). Mayo Clinic engages Cerebras to deliver potent computing power, scale AI transformation. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic, the world's No. 1 hospital and a global leader in advancing trusted generative artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare applications, has announced a multi-year strategic collaboration with Cerebras Systems to develop multimodal large language models (LLMs) to improve patient outcomes and diagnoses. The collaboration combines Mayo Clinic's expansive repository of decades of deidentified clinical data with generative AI capabilities developed by Cerebras to train models to complement physicians' expertise. The…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2024-01-30). Born at less than a pound, 22-week preemie makes journey from NICU to home sweet home. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org On Christmas Eve 2022, Sharni Saravanan was rushed to Mayo Clinic Health System in Red Wing. She was pregnant and bleeding, a terrifying combination. But doctors assured Sharni and her husband, Karthik Viswanathan, that she and their baby were fine. This past year, Christmas Eve looked much different for Sharni and Karthik. There were no trips to the hospital, no worries about anyone's health. And there was someone new joining the celebration: their son, Heeran,…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2024-01-30). Mayo Clinic hospitals named 'America's Best Hospitals' by Healthgrades. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Healthgrades, an independent health ratings company, ranked the performance of nearly 4,500 hospitals in overall clinical excellence. Mayo Clinic hospitals in Arizona; Florida; Rochester and Mankato, Minnesota; and Eau Claire, Wisconsin, were named among "America's Best Hospitals." Mayo Clinic hospitals in Arizona, Florida and Rochester, Minnesota, and Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato, Minnesota, were named among "America's 50 Best Hospitals" by Healthgrades, an independent healthcare ratings company. In addition, Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire,…

Pan American Health Organization (2024-01-30). World: Epidemiological Alert: Measles in the Region of the Americas (29 January 2024). reliefweb.int Countries: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, United States of America, World | Source: Pan American Health Organization | Please refer to the attached file. | Given the challenges related to the persistence of low coverage of the first and second doses of the vaccine against measles, rubella, and mumps (MMR1 and MMR2), the increase in measles cases globally, and the occurrence of imported cases in countries in the Region of the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) urges Member States to continue with activities to increase and maintain adequ…

Rifondazione Comunista, Sinistra Europea (2024-01-30). Assassinate UNRWA, US and EU retaliation after the Hague Court verdict. pressenza.com Since 1948, since the Nakba, the United Nations has created an agency, UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East) which has guaranteed relief, development, education, health care, social services, and aid emergencies to over five million Palestinian refugees present in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, as well as in the occupied territories and the Gaza Strip. [These] resources [are] not always managed in the best way, but [are] fundamental for a humanitarian emergency that has no equal in the history of the planet, [the emergency aid] having had to operate for 76 years now.

World Health Organization (2024-01-30). Bangladesh: WHO implements large-scale Ivermectin-based MDA for one million Rohingya refugees. reliefweb.int Countries: Bangladesh, Myanmar | Source: World Health Organization | Please refer to the attached file. | The World Health Organization (WHO) Bangladesh is carrying out a large-scale Mass Drug Administration (MDA) campaign in partnership with the Government of Bangladesh and Health Sector partners to break the transmission of persistent scabies upsurge among Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar and Bhasan Char. | Running from November 29th, 2023, to February 01, 2024, this initiative strives to target nearly 1 million individuals residing in 33 camps in Cox's Bazar and Bhasan Char Island, marking it as the worl…

Colin Todhunter (2024-01-29). Sick to Death: Unhealthy Food and Failed Technologies. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Suzanne Burdick (2024-01-29). No More Research on Cellphone Radiation and Human Health, Government Says. globalresearch.ca

newarab (2024-01-30). Gaza: Israel returns dozens of exhumed bodies. newarab.com Palestinians buried dozens of bodies in a mass grave in southern Gaza on Tuesday, after officials said Israel returned remains it had exhumed from the territory. | Gazans were moving the bodies in blue plastic shrouds from a truck towards the newly dug mass grave east of Rafah. | Health ministry employees wearing white protective clothing lowered them into the ground, near the tents of people displaced by Israel's onslaught. | A Palestinian source at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt told AFP the bodies returned had been "stolen by the occupation (Israeli) army during its incursion" into Gaza. | A second so…

Ana Luisa Brown (2024-01-29). Costa Rican authorities try to find out cause of contaminated water. plenglish.com San Jose, Jan 29 (Prensa Latina) After a week of the first alerts, health and access to drinking water, authorities are looking for the causes of contamination of this liquid with hydrocarbons, while more than 100,000 people continue to be affected.

greenleft.org.au (2024-01-29). Health workers rally against Israel's assault on Gazan colleagues. greenleft.org.au

presstv.ir (2024-01-29). 'UK national scandal': 20,000 mental health patients 'raped, sexually assaulted' in NHS care. presstv.ir Tens of thousands of patients have been raped, sexually abused, assaulted, or harassed in UK's NHS-run mental hospitals, a new investigation reveals.

Tammy Abughnaim (2024-01-29). American Medical Association won't stand up for Gaza's health workers. electronicintifada.net Palestinian lives hold no less value than Ukrainian lives.

Rhoda Wilson (2024-01-29). Legal action for the UK to defund and exit the WHO is launched; how we can help? expose-news.com Efforts to expose the World Health Organisation's nefarious Pandemic Treaty (Pandemic Accord) and its ugly sister the amendments to the International Health Regulations are being ignored by those elected to protect citizens' …

Dr. William Makis (2024-01-30). Rotational Seizures in COVID-19 Vaccinated. globalresearch.ca

Rhoda Wilson (2024-01-30). Slovakia: Prime Minister launches investigation into the "whole covid circus" and chooses an "anti-vaxxer" to lead it. expose-news.com "Have you seen the statistics on how our deaths from various cardiovascular events have risen because of vaccinations?" Prime Minister Robert Fico asked the Slovak parliament. "The Slovak public simply needs an …

albawaba (2024-01-29). Dubai housing prices could crash down. albawaba.com ALBAWABA — Dubai has seen a big surge in real estate sales, especially after the COVID Pandemic, with 2023 seeing a boost in property sales compared to 2022, especially from Russian buyers who took to Dubai in hopes to protect their assets after the Russia-Ukraine war started early 2022 according to The Media Line, later followed by a trend of Chinese buyers, seeing UAE's market as a target for wealthy customers, according to property agency Knight Frank, which added expectations for the city to become a major hub comparable to New York City, London and Singapore.However, a report by Reuters sheds light on…

Dr. William Makis (2024-01-29). Calamari Clots and Abnormal Blood Clots in the COVID-19 mRNA Vaccinated. globalresearch.ca

Lucrecia Franco (2024-01-29). Revelers dress as comic book characters for Carnival. america.cgtn.com Carnival is underway in Rio de Janeiro, and crowds are as massive and vibrant as they were during pre-COVID-19 pandemic times. | One key feature of the celebration is the themed street parties in neighborhoods throughout the city. | CGTN's Lucrecia Franco attended one party where revelers dress as their favorite comic book characters.

teleSUR, jaa, SH (2024-01-30). Inicia en Uruguay nueva etapa de vacunación contra la Covid-19. telesurtv.net Tras la aplicación a personas mayores en lugares de larga estadía, les tocará a mayores de 80 años, embarazadas y personas en estado de inmunodepresión.

Janine (2024-01-29). Government leads partnerships in addressing pressing challenges. sanews.gov.za Government leads partnerships in addressing pressing challenges | By Michael Currin | Our history has shown that when South Africans pull together in partnership, there is nothing that we cannot overcome. We adeptly demonstrated this when we worked together to drive back the spread of COVID-19 through a societal-wide approach. | The strong partnerships forged between government, business, organised labour and civil society were instrumental in saving precious lives. This partnership has today become a blueprint to address our country's most pressing challenges in energy, transport and logistics, and crime and cor…