(2023-02-04). OMS alerta sobre 600 mutaciones de la àìmicron. telesurtv.net La miembro del Programa de Emergencias Sanitaria del organismo internacional indicó que el coronavirus sigue evolucionando.
(2023-02-04). [Comment] Clinical use of pre-emptive pharmacogenetic programmes. thelancet.com The clinical implementation of pharmacogenetics (the study of how genetics influence individual variations in drug response) is a key factor in the development of programmes to prevent adverse drug reactions. Yet pharmacogenetics testing in clinics is still infrequent and is mainly reactive and focused on analysing a single drug—gene interaction. Evaluation of the implementation of pharmacogenetics in the real world is necessary. Only very few pilot studies have used a pharmacogenetics panel strategy to guide drug therapy, and mostly in patients aged over 65 years in specialised care settings in the USA.
(2023-02-04). [Articles] A 12-gene pharmacogenetic panel to prevent adverse drug reactions: an open-label, multicentre, controlled, cluster-randomised crossover implementation study. thelancet.com Genotype-guided treatment using a 12-gene pharmacogenetic panel significantly reduced the incidence of clinically relevant adverse drug reactions and was feasible across diverse European health-care system organisations and settings. Large-scale implementation could help to make drug therapy increasingly safe.
(2023-02-04). [Correspondence] Changing the mass casualty disaster surgical response. thelancet.com Over 33 million people were affected by the floods in Pakistan in 2022. Even though more than 650‚Äà000 pregnant women currently require obstetric services and there are over 13‚Äà000 victims of traumatic injury, surgical diseases have received little resources and coverage in relief efforts.1 Government and aid organisations have focused predominantly on infectious diseases, as seen in both mass casualty incidents (MCIs) caused by floods in the past century.
(2023-02-04). Mayo Clinic Minute: Postpartum depression is more than baby blues. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Postpartum depression is real. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 1 out of every 10 new moms suffer from it. It's much more than what's called the "baby blues" because it lasts longer and tends to be more severe. Symptoms include mood swings, anxiety, sadness, crying irritability and feeling overwhelmed. Prompt treatment is important, and Mayo Clinic experts say it works. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/WhmJuesp9ck Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg (0: 57) is…
(2023-02-03). Mayo Clinic Minute: What is heart disease? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says heart disease is a leading cause of death is the U.S. And the risk of heart disease death differs by race and ethnicity. February is American Heart Month. But what is heart disease? Dr. Sharonne N. Hayes, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, explains.Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/8E_NPCZCNdo Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg (0: 58) is in the downloads at the end of…
(2023-02-04). OMS alerta sobre 600 mutaciones de la àìmicron. telesurtv.net La miembro del Programa de Emergencias Sanitaria del organismo internacional indicó que el coronavirus sigue evolucionando.
(2023-02-04). [Comment] Clinical use of pre-emptive pharmacogenetic programmes. thelancet.com The clinical implementation of pharmacogenetics (the study of how genetics influence individual variations in drug response) is a key factor in the development of programmes to prevent adverse drug reactions. Yet pharmacogenetics testing in clinics is still infrequent and is mainly reactive and focused on analysing a single drug—gene interaction. Evaluation of the implementation of pharmacogenetics in the real world is necessary. Only very few pilot studies have used a pharmacogenetics panel strategy to guide drug therapy, and mostly in patients aged over 65 years in specialised care settings in the USA.
(2023-02-04). [Articles] A 12-gene pharmacogenetic panel to prevent adverse drug reactions: an open-label, multicentre, controlled, cluster-randomised crossover implementation study. thelancet.com Genotype-guided treatment using a 12-gene pharmacogenetic panel significantly reduced the incidence of clinically relevant adverse drug reactions and was feasible across diverse European health-care system organisations and settings. Large-scale implementation could help to make drug therapy increasingly safe.
(2023-02-04). [Correspondence] Changing the mass casualty disaster surgical response. thelancet.com Over 33 million people were affected by the floods in Pakistan in 2022. Even though more than 650‚Äà000 pregnant women currently require obstetric services and there are over 13‚Äà000 victims of traumatic injury, surgical diseases have received little resources and coverage in relief efforts.1 Government and aid organisations have focused predominantly on infectious diseases, as seen in both mass casualty incidents (MCIs) caused by floods in the past century.
(2023-02-04). Mayo Clinic Minute: Postpartum depression is more than baby blues. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Postpartum depression is real. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 1 out of every 10 new moms suffer from it. It's much more than what's called the "baby blues" because it lasts longer and tends to be more severe. Symptoms include mood swings, anxiety, sadness, crying irritability and feeling overwhelmed. Prompt treatment is important, and Mayo Clinic experts say it works. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/WhmJuesp9ck Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg (0: 57) is…
(2023-02-03). Mayo Clinic Minute: What is heart disease? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says heart disease is a leading cause of death is the U.S. And the risk of heart disease death differs by race and ethnicity. February is American Heart Month. But what is heart disease? Dr. Sharonne N. Hayes, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, explains.Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/8E_NPCZCNdo Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg (0: 58) is in the downloads at the end of…
(2023-02-04). [Perspectives] Chelsea Watego: foregrounding Indigenous intellectual sovereignty. thelancet.com Chelsea Watego is Professor of Indigenous Health and the Executive Director of the Carumba Institute at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, QLD, Australia. Her studies, which are "trying to shine a light on the structural dimension of race and its role in the production of health inequalities", focus on the survival of Indigenous peoples locally and globally, and the foregrounding of Indigenous intellectual sovereignty. She has spent more than two decades as a health worker and researcher on Indigenous health.
(2023-02-04). [Correspondence] Speed up multi-pathogen surveillance. thelancet.com Human health is facing escalating risks of circulating contagious pathogens and emerging zoonotic spillover due to global changes characterised by urbanisation and habitat fragmentation.1 The COVID-19 pandemic and 2022 mpox outbreaks have warned us of a possible harsh future, with further deterioration possible upon pathogens' co-transmission through shared pathways—eg, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 via respiration. This co-transmission will greatly increase the risk of co-infections and pandemics that intensify the burdens of public health infrastructure and expenses for governments.
(2023-02-04). [Correspondence] China needs a scientific long COVID recovery-support platform. thelancet.com Post-COVID-19 condition (also known as long COVID) emerged as a major public health problem in…
(2023-02-04). [Correspondence] Health literacy exists beyond the boundaries of medicine. thelancet.com The Editorial1 asks important questions about how individuals can make healthy decisions in an increasingly complex world that is overwhelmed with false information. Although these questions remain important for future research, past thinkers might offer relevant answers.
(2023-02-04). [Correspondence] Health-literacy education drives empowerment and agency. thelancet.com The Editorial1 on health literacy presents needful perspectives. However, two further aspects related to health literacy should be emphasised: the importance of sustained support for epistemic empowerment and the role of children's and adolescents' own agency in effecting change in their surroundings and in the systems they interact with.2…
(2023-02-04). [Perspectives] The kindness of strangers. thelancet.com "I don't want realism. I want magic." These legendary words capture the state of mind of Blanche DuBois, the central character of Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire. Partly inspired by Williams' sister, whose mental ill health led her to be institutionalised and to have a lobotomy, Blanche is a character who is losing her battle with a life that has given her traumas and losses. Destitute, self-deluded, and on the brink of a nervous breakdown, Blanche unexpectedly arrives at her sister Stella's shabby apartment in New Orleans, setting in motion a series of confrontations and revelations that will u…
(2023-02-04). [Correspondence] The urgent need to address health literacy in schools. thelancet.com The Editorial1 raised an important question: why is health literacy failing so many? It urgently called for effective responses to support people to better manage health information, but also to account for the environmental and social forces that shape people's choices. Overcoming the commercial determinants of health and the increase in disinformation on social media and the internet are being highlighted as key drivers of mistrust among people, families, and communities.
(2023-02-04). [Perspectives] A space to grow. thelancet.com A woman's right to choose what happens to her body is an issue that often makes headlines. In 2022, the US Supreme Court made the controversial decision to overturn Roe v Wade, the 1973 law which made access to safe abortion a constitutional right. Concerns were also raised by human rights groups in July, 2022, when the UK Government took out references to protect sexual and reproductive health and rights in a multinational statement about gender equality. In her debut novel, Diary of a Void, Japanese writer Emi Yagi tackles the issue of bodily autonomy from an unusual angle—that of a single woman choosing…
(2023-02-04). [Comment] Thank you to The Lancet's reviewers in 2022. thelancet.com Over The Lancet's 200-year history, we are privileged to have witnessed a great number of advances that have underpinned the development of modern medicine. With the COVID-19 pandemic still weighing heavily on clinicians and health services around the world, we extend our sincere gratitude to all the reviewers (for list of reviewers see page e4) who have made time within their busy schedules to peer review manuscripts for The Lancet during the past year. Thank you.
(2023-02-04). [Editorial] Global cancer: overcoming the narrative of despondency. thelancet.com It is easy to become despondent about global cancer. Feb 4 marks World Cancer Day, and renewed calls to "close the cancer care gap". But the worldwide inequities in cancer care and control are deeply rooted. The facts are stark. Childhood cancer survival rates, for example, are more than 80% in high-income countries versus 20% in low-income countries. These disparities arise from huge differences across cancer prevention and care—in exposure to risk factors, in availability of public health programmes, and in access to diagnostics and treatments—compounded by growing cancer incidence.
(2023-02-04). [Correspondence] Co-design effective health-literacy videos. thelancet.com The Editorial1 emphasises the need for health literacy interventions to be co-designed with end users and community organisations beyond medicine.
(2023-02-04). "Operation Nightingale": Fraudulent nursing diploma scandal exposes US health care and education crises. wsws.org Twenty-five defendants are awaiting a trial and face up to 20 years in prison. The allegations reflect a deepening crisis in the health care and education systems, which the defendants sought to exploit.
(2023-02-04). Canada's governments exploit health care crisis of their own making to press for privatization. wsws.org Four decades of capitalist austerity and the profits-before-lives response to the COVID-19 pandemic have left Medicare on life support.
(2023-02-04). Temple University graduate students begin open-ended strike for higher pay, better health care. wsws.org Temple University students in Philadelphia began an indefinite strike this week after the university refused to bargain with them for cost of living and other improvements.
(2023-02-04). Consumer Health: Cancer education at Mayo Clinic. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org February is National Cancer Prevention Month, and Saturday, Feb. 4, is World Cancer Day, which is a global initiative to raise awareness, improve education and promote action to create a cancer-free world. This is a good time to learn more about cancer education at Mayo Clinic. Patients with cancer who come to Mayo Clinic benefit from the knowledge of Mayo Clinic's specialists and the integrated approach to treating each patient. Mayo Clinic's approach to medical care means that…
(2023-02-04). Black History Month: Dr. Alyx Porter on shaping the future generation of physicians. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Dr. Alyx Porter Black History Month is commemorated every February. It's a month for all people to celebrate and learn about diverse and important contributions of African Americans to American society and culture, as well as to reflect on the ongoing fight against racism, inequity and discrimination. Mayo Clinic News Network is profiling several Mayo Clinic physicians who are focused every day on achieving health equity through their work. Meet Mayo Clinic's Dr. Alyx Porter,…
(2023-02-04). Interval training for heart health. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — When it comes to exercise, what's best for your heart: slow and steady, or fast and furious? How about a combination of both? Interval training — alternating short bouts of higher-intensity effort with longer bouts of less-intense activity — has big benefits for your heart. "Interval training makes your heart alternate between working hard and recovering," says Melinda Hahm, a clinical exercise physiologist in Cardiology at Mayo Clinic Health System in…
(2023-02-04). Consumer Health: What is vascular dementia? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Vascular dementia is a general term describing problems with reasoning, planning, judgment, memory and other thought processes caused by brain damage from impaired blood flow to your brain. There's no specific test that can confirm vascular dementia. Instead, health care professionals make a judgment based on any medical history for stroke or disorders of the heart and blood vessels, and results of tests that can clarify the diagnosis. Symptoms Vascular dementia symptoms vary, depending on…
(2023-02-03). 'We're Still Gonna Say No': Inside UnitedHealthcare's Effort to Deny Coverage to Chronically Ill Patient. scheerpost.com 
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn't pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer's hidden procedures for rejecting claims.
(2023-02-03). Certain COVID-19 experiments in Beijing prohibited. ecns.cn Conducting experiments related to COVID-19 in Beijing that go beyond an approved range is prohibited, and laboratories are required to set up special repositories to store virus strains or samples, according to a notice released by the city's Health Commission on Wednesday.
(2023-02-03). Union Busting War On Apple Workers & NLRB Ruling For Fired Apple Worker Ashley M. Gjà∏vik. indybay.org Apple manager and whistleblower Ashley M. Gjà∏vik ann Monday January 31, 2023 won an NLRB ruling that she had been illegally retaliated against for speaking out publicly about health and safety issues at her office which was built on a superfund toxic site in Silicon Valley.
(2023-02-03). Mayo Clinic Q and A: Turmeric for healthier diet, pain relief. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I am a breast cancer survivor who still suffers from various aches and pains, including arthritis. A friend told me that her arthritis pain improved after she started taking turmeric. I'm committed to making this new year a healthier one, and I want to improve my overall health and diet. Can you tell me more about this supplement? Is it something I can add into my diet to feel better? ANSWER: Turmeric is becoming…
(2023-02-03). Check out chickpeas for year-round healthy eating. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org As you look to reboot your healthy eating after the holidays, check out chickpeas. Also known as garbanzo beans, chickpeas may not be as familiar as other legumes, like black beans and green peas. But golden, nutty chickpeas are nutrient powerhouses, budget-friendly and a versatile option for year-round healthy eating. Loaded with nutrients, naturally low in saturated fat Nearly three-quarters of Americans exceed the daily recommended amount of saturated fat, much of which comes from…
(2023-02-03). U.S. viceroy delivers double ultimatum to Georgian government. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The MessengerFebruary 3, 2023 US Gov't Concerned Over Mikheil Saakashvili's Health condition, Kelly Degnan says US Ambassador to Georgia Kelly Degnan in response to a question about Mikheil Saakashvili's health condition, told reporters that the US government is concerned over Saakashvili's situation which she assessed as 'serious'. According to Kelly Degnan, it is the Georgian …
(2023-02-03). Anti-Abortion Laws Were Written to Confuse the Public — and They're Working. truthout.org As a Democratic state lawmaker in South Carolina, Rep. Elizabeth "Spencer" Wetmore is in constant contact with abortion rights leaders and reproductive health providers in her state. Despite poring over anti-abortion legislation pushed by Republicans and reams of existing state law, even Wetmore is confused about the status of abortion rights in the Palmetto State. In 2021… |
(2023-02-03). Biden administration considering declaring 'public health emergency' to promote abortion access. americanthinker.com The "right" to dismember babies shall not be infringed!
(2023-02-03). Amazon lands in the soup with OSHA—again. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON —As if monster warehouse and retailer Amazon wasn't oppressing its workers enough by fighting their organizing drives, now it's in trouble for endangering them through unsafe and unhealthy working conditions. So said the Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Feb. 1, in proposing to fine the firm $46,875 for rampant safety violations at warehouses …
(2023-02-03). Should WHO's Executive Board be discussing a more ambitious agenda? peoplesdispatch.org The World Health Organization's Executive Board's agenda fails to incorporate global health governance discussions. Nicoletta Dentico and Lauren Paremoer clarify what's missing at the EB table.
(2023-02-03). Bernie Sanders to reintroduce the PRO Act into the Senate. peoplesworld.org 
Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., the new chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, will reintroduce the Protect The Right To Organize (PRO) Act. He should use it to really throw the book at corporate crooks. Sanders will be able to push it through his panel, via a one-vote majority there. If all …
(2023-02-03). Progressives: House Anti-Socialism Resolution Is Step Toward Slashing Safety Net. truthout.org More than 100 U.S. House Democrats — including some of the wealthiest members of Congress — joined with Republican lawmakers on Thursday in passing a resolution "denouncing the horrors of socialism," a largely symbolic gesture that opponents warned is nonetheless a step toward slashing Social Security, Medicare, and other safety net programs. House Concurrent Resolution 9, which "denounces… |
(2023-02-03). Pfizer Vaccine Bonanza Slows — But Bill Gates Sold Early, Made Huge Profits. globalresearch.ca Pfizer on Tuesday announced 2022 profits of $31.4 billion on record sales of $100.3 billion. Sales from its COVID-19 vaccine and However, …
(2023-02-03). COVID-19 Vaccines: Proof of Lethality. Over One Thousand Scientific Studies. globalresearch.ca
(2023-02-04). Claims Of Mass Workers Shortages And Layoffs; Read Between The Lines. popularresistance.org In the midst of the economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, in trying to justify the acceleration in global inflation — even before the war in Ukraine — the mainstream media was flooded with news about the so-called 'Great Resignation', blaming an apparent shortage of workers for widespread bottlenecks in the production of goods. | Today, the same media is talking about large-scale redundancies and layoffs by corporations. The explanations offered for this apparent trend could lead one to draw conclusions that barely scratch the surface in terms of understanding the true root causes of these iss…
(2023-02-04). Panamá comienza vacunación con dosis bivalente contra Covid-19. telesurtv.net El 23 de diciembre el ente panameño autorizó el uso de emergencia de la vacuna bivalente de Pfizer-BioNTech para niños de 5 a 11 años.
(2023-02-03). Países del G77 + China apuestan por educación inclusiva. telesurtv.net El impacto de la pandemia de la Covid-19 en los sistemas educativos afectó a 1. 0 millones de estudiantes.
(2023-02-03). OMS reporta menos contagios por la Covid-19. telesurtv.net Hasta el 19 de enero se habían notificado a nivel global más de 753 millones de contagios de la enfermedad.
(2023-02-03). Global WAR-NING! Geoengineering Is Wrecking Our Planet and Humanity. globalresearch.ca World leaders are meeting in Glasgow at COP-26. All eyes are now on "the imminent dangers of CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions". The "climate emergency" is a timely instrument of propaganda used to distract people from questioning "the real crisis", namely the Covid-19 "plandemic".