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Opium prices in Afghanistan near historic peaks, mostly benefiting large-scale traffickers
Opium prices in Afghanistan soared to $750 per kilogram in 2024, according to a new report released by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). This marks a tenfold increase from the $75 per kilogram price in 2022, prior to the de facto Afghan authorities imposing a ban on drugs.
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Australian Man Becomes First to Leave Hospital with Titanium Artificial Heart
In a groundbreaking medical achievement, an Australian man in his forties has become the first person in the world to leave the hospital with a titanium artificial heart, a device that is used as a temporary solution for patients with heart failure awaiting a donor heart. This marks a major milestone in medical technology, as previous recipients of the BiVACOR device had remained in U.S. hospitals while it was in place.
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The Hidden Dangers of Skin Lightening in Northern Nigeria
In northern Nigeria, a mother deeply regrets using skin-lightening creams on her six children, a practice common in the region. Initially aimed at gaining favor from her family, the harmful effects of the creams have left her children with scars, burns, and lasting skin damage.
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Un focolaio di sindrome di Guillain-Barré colpisce Pune, in India
Centinaia di persone colpite da paralisi strisciante
Pune, in India, sta affrontando un aumento dei casi di sindrome di Guillain-Barré (GBS), con circa 160 segnalazioni da gennaio. L'epidemia, legata al Campylobacter jejuni, ha lasciato molti pazienti in terapia intensiva e ha sollevato preoccupazioni per le infezioni di origine alimentare.
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Guillain-Barré Syndrome Outbreak Hits Pune, India
Hundreds Affected by Creeping Paralysis
Pune, India, is facing a rise in Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) cases, with around 160 reported since January. The outbreak, linked to Campylobacter jejuni, has left many in intensive care and raised concerns over foodborne infections.
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Il ritorno del morbillo: cosa c'è da sapere su rischi, sintomi e prevenzione
Un tempo il morbillo era una malattia infantile comune, ma grazie ai vaccini è ormai raro negli Stati Uniti. Tuttavia, le recenti epidemie ci ricordano quanto sia contagioso il virus e l'importanza della vaccinazione. Vediamo le basi del morbillo, i suoi sintomi, i rischi potenziali e come proteggere se stessi e gli altri.
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Crescono le preoccupazioni per il controllo della Casa Bianca sui finanziamenti alla scienza, i ricercatori temono ripercussioni
La crescente influenza dell'amministrazione Trump sui finanziamenti federali alla scienza ha fatto scattare un campanello d'allarme tra i ricercatori, in particolare con gli sforzi per rivedere e potenzialmente bloccare le sovvenzioni che includono il linguaggio sulla diversità, l'equità e l'inclusione (DEI). Molti scienziati temono che questo nuovo controllo possa ostacolare la ricerca innovativa e compromettere il vantaggio scientifico dell'America.
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L'Università Johns Hopkins combatte contro i drastici tagli ai finanziamenti dei NIH
I drastici tagli ai finanziamenti del NIH minacciano la ricerca salvavita
La Johns Hopkins University si è unita a un'azione legale contro i National Institutes of Health (NIH) in seguito a una proposta di politica volta a tagliare drasticamente i fondi per la ricerca medica. Questi tagli, volti a ridurre i “costi indiretti”, potrebbero bloccare la ricerca critica e ritardare i progressi medici salvavita. L'università, insieme ad altre importanti istituzioni, sta lottando per proteggere il futuro delle scoperte sanitarie.
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Three Ways Forward in a Post Covid-19 World
There are three important ways forward in addressing the pandemic and its impacts on health and wellbeing in the years to come.
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Gender-sensitive Workplace Health Promotion: Why It Is Important and How It Can Be Implemented in Practice
Sex and gender are important determinants of health, but we often lack criteria for effective gender-sensitive work place health promotion. A team at the Austrian Health Promotion Fund are working to overcome these challenges. They have developed 17 criteria and a 62-point checklist for workplace health promotion initiatives.
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COVID-19: the worst may be yet to come
As much of western Europe begins to ease countrywide lockdowns, globally the pandemic may still be in its infancy, with more than 160 000 new cases reported each day since June 25. Individual countries count cases differently, so direct comparisons are difficult, but the numbers illustrate a worrying pattern. At a subnational level the picture is nuanced, with local hotspots, but at a country level the picture is clear—the world is facing a worsening multipolar pandemic.
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Medicine shortages in the EU: causes and solutions
Find out why there is a shortage of medicines, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and how Parliament wants to improve the situation
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Coronavirus Makes Inequality a Public Health Issue
“It may seem like a ridiculous idea but the only way to fight the plague is with decency.” – Dr Rieux in Albert Camus’s 1947 novel, The Plague.
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Study finds functional medicine model is associated with improvements in health-related QOL
In the first retrospective cohort study of the functional medicine model, Cleveland Clinic researchers found that functional medicine was associated with improvements in health-related quality of life. The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open.
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NHS treating 5,000 diabetics a day as one in 10 patients now suffer with illness, figures reveal
Hospitals are being deluged by 5,000 type 2 diabetics a day, new figures reveal as one in 10 patients are now suffering from a form of the illness linked to being overweight and inactive.
More than 1.7million people with type 2 diabetes were admitted to hospitals last year, costing the NHS an estimated £22million a day.
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A ‘Cure’ for Ebola but Will it Stop the Outbreak if People Won’t Get Treatment?
While people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are slowly being made aware that scientists have discovered two drugs that are effective in treating Ebola, letting go of the fear and anxiety that has prevailed across the country this year will require more work.
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Civilians ‘continue to pay highest price’ in Ukraine conflict, with peace prospects losing ‘momentum’
“Civilians continue to pay the highest price” arising from Ukraine’s on-going conflict with separatist rebels in the east, the UN Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator told the Security Council on Tuesday, a conflict which is still claiming lives.
Why Doctors Hate Their Computers
Digitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient. But are screens coming between doctors and patients?
On a sunny afternoon in May, 2015, I joined a dozen other surgeons at a downtown Boston office building to begin sixteen hours of mandatory computer training.
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Incident Management System
To enhance World Health Organisations Emergency Programme (WHE) response capability,
To enhance World Health Organisations Emergency Programme (WHE) response capability, WHE proposed the development of a series of training packages to build staff competencies, skills and knowledge, to enhance deployment and response capability.
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MARIJUANA: The Latest Scientific Findings and Legalization
California, Massachusetts, Maine, and Nevada became the latest states to legalize recreational marijuana, bringing to 28 the number of states that have okayed the drug for medicinal use, recreational use, or both ...
What do we know about the health impacts of marijuana, and what do we still need to learn?
Estimating HIV incidence and number of undiagnosed individuals living with HIV in the European Union/European Economic Area, 2015
Since 2011, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) incidence appears unchanged in the European Union/European Economic Area with between 29,000 and 33,000 new cases reported annually up to 2015.
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Typhoid Fever: A Race Against Time
Salmonella uses immune cells, the Biozentrum of the University of Basel
The life-threatening disease typhoid fever results from the ongoing battle between the bacterial pathogen Salmonella and the immune cells of the body. Prof. Dirk Bumann's research group at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has now uncovered how the typhoid pathogen repeatedly manages to evade the host's immune system. Their findings are published in the scientific journal Cell Host & Microbe
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