Reform Needed As Big Business, Not Vulnerable Communities Benefit from Post-Pandemic Support
Informal sector only received 4 percent of post pandemic funds even though the sector accounts for more than 2 billion workers, many of whom are women. Credit: IITABy Ed HoltBRATISLAVA, Oct 12 2022 (IPS) Governments and international financial institutions must adopt new ways of providing post-pandemic support, say campaigners after a report found that in many poorer countries, big business benefitted most from Covid-19 recovery funds. At the same time, vulnerable communities have been “left behind.” They say the level and distribution of support of these funds has been poor, with the most vulnerable in society, such a...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - October 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ed Holt Tags: COVID-19 Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Inequality Labour TerraViva United Nations Women & Economy IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Source Type: news

Development Banks Should Reform Their Lending Practices
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank share a common goal of raising living standards in their member countries. This week, the two international institutions will convene in Washington DC (through October 16) for their annual meeting. The strength of the US dollar will be a key talking point. By adjusting their lending practices, these institutions have a unique opportunity to relieve suffering in the world’s poorest countries.By Alexander Kozul-Wright and Ruurd BrouwerGENEVA, Oct 11 2022 (IPS) In the last week of September, emerging market (EM) bond fund outflows hit $4.2 billion, according to JP Mor...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - October 11, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Alexander Kozul-Wright and Ruurd Brouwer Tags: Development & Aid Economy & Trade Financial Crisis Global Headlines Health Inequity Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

How to Get on Track to Eradicate Extreme Poverty
The Graduation approach's impact goes well beyond that of the individual participant. Not only does the household greatly benefit from its various interventions, but now studies show subsequent generations are able to stay out of the poverty trap. (Rangpur, Bangladesh). Credit: BRAC/2021By Gregory ChenWASHINGTON DC, Oct 10 2022 (IPS) As we approach 2030, the Sustainable Development Goals look harder than ever to achieve. Shocks to the global economy caused by climate change, COVID-19, and conflict threaten humanity’s survival. For the most vulnerable, trends are moving in the wrong direction with an additional 75 to ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - October 10, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Gregory Chen Tags: Armed Conflicts Climate Change COVID-19 Development & Aid Economy & Trade Education Global Headlines Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news

Sleep hygiene practices in patients with major depression with comorbid insomnia, primary insomnia, and good sleepers - Sandoval-Rinc ón M, Sánchez-Ferrer JC, Muñoz-Delgado J, Saldívar-Hernández RK, Jiménez-Genchi A.
Introduction. Inadequate sleep hygiene (SH) is considered factor contributing to insomnia. However, the practice of SH by depressed patients with comorbid insomnia has not been explored. OBJECTIVE. We aimed to compare the practice of SH between pat...
Source: SafetyLit - October 5, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news

Ideology and Dogma Ensure Policy Disaster
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame SundaramSYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 4 2022 (IPS) Central banks (CBs) around the world – led by the US Fed, European Central Bank and Bank of England – are raising interest rates, ostensibly to check inflation. The ensuing race to the bottom is hastening world economic recession. Going for broke New UK Prime Minister Liz Truss has already revived ‘supply side economics’, long thought to have been fatally discredited. Her huge tax cuts are supposed to kick-start Britain’s stagnant economy in time for the next general election. Anis ChowdhuryBut studies of past tax cuts have not f...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - October 4, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Tags: Development & Aid Economy & Trade Financial Crisis Global Headlines Health Inequality Labour Sustainability Sustainable Development Goals TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

Deadly Smoke: Feeding Children Kills Cafeteria Staff
Soo Hyoun Lim's classmate doing a campaign inside the Yongsan International School’s cafeteria with the poster.By Soo Hyoun Lim and Hyeonuk HwangSeoul, Sep 28 2022 (IPS) During my summer break this year, I read a news article about five school cafeteria workers who had died of lung cancer. Due to these incidents, a union of cafeteria workers, wearing their aprons and holding their lunch trays, held a protest in front of the President’s office on a scorching summer day. And it made us think about the devastating working conditions for the school lunch employees. Isn’t it so disheartening that we eat our school lunch a...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 28, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Soo Hyoun Lim - Hyeonuk Hwang Tags: Asia-Pacific Education Health TerraViva United Nations Youth Thought Leaders IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Source Type: news

Aged Persons Haunted by Abuse in Zimbabwe
HelpAge Zimbabwe director Priscilla Gavi is concerned about the elder abuse in Zimbabwe, especially as many are reliant on their families for support. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo/IPSBy Jeffrey MoyoSep 28 2022 (IPS) At his house in Mabvuku, a high-density suburb in Harare, the Zimbabwean capital, 86-year-old Tinago Murape claims his grandchildren starve him. Not only that, but Murape, who now walks with the support of a walking stick, said his three grandchildren – grown-up men with their wives and children living in his house, accuse him of bewitching them. Murape’s wife, Sekai, born in 1941, died two years ago after she cont...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 28, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jeffrey Moyo Tags: Africa Featured Health Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Zimbabwe Source Type: news

Inflation Phobia Hastens Recessions, Debt Crises
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame SundaramSYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Sep 27 2022 (IPS) Inflation phobia among central banks (CBs) is dragging economies into recession and debt crises. Their dogmatic beliefs prevent them from doing right. Instead, they take their cues from Washington: the US Fed, Treasury and Bretton Woods institutions (BWIs). Costly recessions Both BWIs – the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank – have recently raised the alarm about the likely dire consequences of the ensuing contractionary ‘race to the bottom’. But their dogmas stop them from being pragmatic. Hence, their policy analys...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Tags: Development & Aid Economy & Trade Financial Crisis Global Headlines Health Inequality Labour TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Jomo Kwame Sundaram & Anis Chowdhury Source Type: news

The Swedish Elections: A Victory for Populism
By Jan LundiusSTOCKHOLM, Sep 22 2022 (IPS) After general elections on the 12th September, Sweden is on the threshold of a new era. The Sweden Democrats (SD) won almost 21 percent of the votes and thus became the largest in a bloc of right-wing parties that now have a collective majority in the parliament. A nation that for a long time prided itself of being a beacon of tolerance and openness will now experience a historical transformation. The Sweden Democrats was once founded by Nazi sympathisers and for decades shunned by mainstream politicians. However, SD has now tipped the political scale in a country previously known...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 22, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jan Lundius Tags: Climate Change Crime & Justice Education Energy Europe Global Headlines Health Labour Migration & Refugees Nuclear Energy - Nuclear Weapons IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

3Shape Launches All-New TRIOS 5 Wireless Intraoral Scanner
TRIOS 5 Wireless delivers exceptional performance in a compact body redesigned for next-level ergonomics, effortless scanning, and improved hygiene Copenhagen, September 21, 2022 – 3Shape today introduced TRIOS 5 Wireless, a completely new, state-of-the-art intraoral scanner designed to make it easier than ever for dentists to go digital with their dentistry. A breakthrough in intraoral scanners, TRIOS 5 Wireless makes scanning smoother and faster with its all-new ScanAs sist intelligent alignment technology that comes housed in a redesigned compact and hygienically optimized scanner – to deliver the highest standard ...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - September 21, 2022 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news

Innovative Financing to Protect Public Health During a Pandemic
By Anisa Ismail and Tan Yen LianBANGKOK / PENANG, Sep 20 2022 (IPS) Economic recovery since the COVID-19 pandemic has been uneven amidst a cautious loosening of restrictions. But even at the height of the pandemic, it was business as usual for the tobacco industry. Tobacco companies remain profitable, making US$ 912.3 billion in 2022 and capitalizing on the situation by promoting and selling their lethal products while convincing governments that their industry should not be penalised during the pandemic, claiming tobacco is a good investment. This is an industry that perpetuates an annual loss of US$ 1.4 trillion in glob...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 20, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anisa Ismail and Tan Yen Lian Tags: Development & Aid Economy & Trade Featured Global Headlines Health Inequity Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

A novel fire smoke removal technology using electric agglomeration: the concept, experimental verification and mechanisms - Wang K, Gu H, Zhang G, Luo K, Zhang Q, Chen G, Zhan M, Chi Z.
Electric agglomeration technology is effective in removing particulate matter from the environment and has been widely used in the field of dust removal. For the first time, this technology is applied to the field of fire smoke removal at lab scale. By var...
Source: SafetyLit - September 15, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news

Let ’s Fight for What Counts to End AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Efforts to reinforce and leverage the infrastructure built to end AIDS can optimize the health impact and sustainability of the response to COVID-19. Zimbabwe, November 2019. Credit: UNAIDS/Cynthia Matonhodzes By Winnie ByanyimaGENEVA, Sep 15 2022 (IPS) Next week, taking place alongside the UN General Assembly, President Biden hosts a financing summit in New York of such importance that it will determine if millions of people live, will shape the world around us for years to come and will set the future direction of global health. At least $18 billion is needed to fund the work of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosi...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 15, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Winnie Byanyima Tags: Aid Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Global Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

Perioperative variation in optic nerve sheath diameter - a prospective observational study of traumatic brain injury patients undergoing decompressive craniectomy - Suresh V, Ushakumari PR, Aggarwal A, Kumar A, Kutty RK, Prabhakar RB, Peethambaran A.
BACKGROUND: Measuring optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) by transbulbar ultrasonography (TBUS) can suffice non-invasive ICP measurement with considerable accuracy. OBJECTIVE: The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the perioperative var...
Source: SafetyLit - September 13, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: TBI Source Type: news

Latent classes of posttraumatic stress disorder among survivors of the Bam Earthquake after 17  years - Abolhadi E, Divsalar P, Mosleh-Shirazi MA, Dehesh T.
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to identify latent classes of the severity of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among the survivors of the earthquake in Bam, south-eastern Iran, 17  years after the disaster. The most influential predictor var...
Source: SafetyLit - September 13, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news

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