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Statement for healthcare professionals: How COVID-19 vaccines are regulated for safety and effectiveness
Healthcare professionals and public health authorities have a central role in discussing vaccination against COVID-19 with their patients. Vaccines play a critical role in preventing deaths, hospitalisation caused by infectious diseases. Emerging data on effectiveness [...]
WHO calls for probe into more than 200 Russian attacks on health facilities in Ukraine
The World Health Organization on Tuesday called for investigations into Russian attacks on health-care facilities and ambulances in Ukraine.The global health agency has documented 226 attacks since Russia invaded its neighbor on Feb. 24, according [...]
Long working hours increasing deaths from heart disease and stroke: WHO, ILO
Long working hours led to 745 000 deaths from stroke and ischemic heart disease in 2016, a 29 per cent increase since 2000, according to the latest estimates by the World Health Organization and the [...]
Guest column: Don’t be fooled by the myths about kids and COVID flourishing on social media
The practice of pediatrics has changed. Children were not supposed to die. Preventable disease and death were just that, preventable. There was no acceptable pediatric body count. At least, not before the first pandemic of [...]
Just How Do Deaths Due to COVID-19 Stack Up?
Despite a likely undercount in many places, COVID-19 is the leading killer in most of Latin America and Western Europe.Read more here
Bioethics Without Roe
The 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade has played a subtle but critical role in the history of bioethics in America. The finding of a constitutional right to abortion coincided with the first several years [...]
Couple from Mali celebrates the first birthday of their nonuplets
The day after the leak of the US Supreme Court’s draft of a repudiation of Roe v. Wade, Mohammed VI Arby, Oumar Arby, Elhadji Arby, Bah Arby, Kadidia Arby, Fatouma Arby, Hawa Arby, Adama Arby and [...]
The mists lift over a post-Roe landscape
This week the online magazine Politico published a leaked draft opinion from the US Supreme Court which would overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision which framed abortion as a constitution right. It’s obviously the biggest bioethics story [...]
UK man brings high court case to have dead wife’s baby with surrogate
A man whose wife died while pregnant with twins after fertility treatment is fighting for the right to use their last remaining frozen embryo to try to have a baby with a surrogate, in a [...]
Health for All Film Festival Awards ceremony 2022
Since the Health for All Film Festival was founded in 2020, almost 3500 short films have been submitted for its three editions.Read more here
WHO launches first ever global report on infection prevention and control
The COVID-19 pandemic and other recent large disease outbreaks have highlighted the extent to which health care settings can contribute to the spread of infections, harming patients, health workers and visitors, if insufficient attention is [...]
Abortion laws worldwide: In what countries is abortion legal?
The U.S. is not alone in having a heated debate about abortion, and laws on the procedure differ in countries around the world.Read more here
Omicron as severe as other COVID variants -large U.S. study
May 5 (Reuters) - The Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV2 virus is intrinsically as severe as previous variants, according to a preprint version of a large U.S. study that counters assumptions in other studies that it was [...]
Louisiana Republicans advance bill to make abortion a crime of murder
Since supreme court draft ruling was published, Democrats have warned of a likely torrent of challenges to established rights.Read more here
Russia-Ukraine War: WHO Reports 162 Attacks On Ukraine’s Healthcare Centres; 73 Fatalities
As the Russia-Ukraine war has intensified, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday revealed that it has recorded nearly 162 attacks on healthcare facilities in Ukraine since Russia commenced its assault on February 24. Further, [...]
Two years of COVID: The battle to accept airborne transmission
In the early days of the pandemic, did health authorities get it wrong on airborne transmission?Read more here
COVID in China: Lockdown preparations amid questionable medical treatments
Beijing has ordered mass coronavirus testing for nearly all of its 21 million residents. Only 70 cases have been found in China's capital since last Friday. Beijing health authorities insist the virus can still be [...]
Should peer reviewers be paid to review academic papers?
Aczel and colleagues estimated that the total time that reviewers worked on peer reviews globally was over 100 million hours in 2020. The peer review system in academic publishing is not only time consuming and costly [...]
WHO: Over 70 killed in attacks on Ukraine health facilities
More than 70 people have been killed and at least 52 injured in attacks on Ukrainian health facilities and personnel since Russia began its unprovoked invasion, according to World Health Organization data on Friday.Read more here [...]
David Nott: The war surgeon helping doctors save lives in Ukraine
On Thursday, trauma surgeon David Nott was in London - a long way from Ukraine. But that didn't stop him from helping to save the leg of a man who'd been caught by a blast [...]
Russian Uragan rockets hit hospital in Donetsk region
Russian troops have employed BM-27 Uragan multiple rocket launcher systems to target the regional traumatology hospital in Lyman, Donetsk Region.Read more here
Vaccines, antibodies, antivirals: How some immunocompromised can cut Covid risk
As more and more Americans doff their masks, immunocompromised individuals may be concerned about their risk levels among largely unmasked crowds.The latest change came Monday, when a federal judge struck down the Centers for Disease and Control Prevention’s [...]
What is the BA.2 or “stealth” Omicron subvariant?
The World Health Organization (WHO) is currently monitoring the original Omicron variant, BA.1, along with several additional subvariants BA.1.1, BA.2 and BA.3. The subvariant BA.2 has been referred to as “stealth” Omicron because it has genetic [...]
Medical neutrality must be observed in Ukraine
The World Medical Association (WMA) and the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME) express deep concern about the conflict in Ukraine initiated by the Russian Federation and strongly stress that the international principle of medical [...]
Report: Only 16% of patients at Israel’s field hospital in Ukraine are refugees
Some three weeks after it opened, Israel’s field hospital in western Ukraine is barely treating war refugees and mostly handling general care of locals, according to a new report.Read more here