Pandemic, ‘Great Reset’ and Resistance
A mother and doctor tend to a young girl with COVID-19 at an intensive care ward in the western region of Chernivtsi, Ukraine. Credit: UNICEF/Evgeniy MaloletkaBy Asoka BandarageCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka , Dec 1 2020 (IPS) According to the Center for Systems Science at Johns Hopkins University, as of November 29th, there have been 62,150,421 COVID-19 cases, including 1,450,338 deaths. And according to the latest ILO reports, as job losses escalate due to lockdowns, nearly half of the global workforce is at risk of losing livelihoods, access to food and the ability to survive. The World Economic Forum states that ‘With some 2.6 ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - December 1, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Asoka Bandarage Tags: Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Peace TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news

Creativity, conviviality, and civil society in neoliberalizing public space: changing politics and discourses in skateboarder activism from New York City to Los Angeles - Chiu C, Giamarino C.
This article, through an exploration of the politi...
Source: SafetyLit - October 27, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

Mock jurors' evaluation of firearm examiner testimony - Garrett BL, Scurich N, Crozier WE.
OBJECTIVES: Firearms experts traditionally have testified that a weapon leaves "unique" toolmarks, so bullets or cartridge casings can be visually examined and conclusively matched to a particular firearm. Recently, due to scientific critiques, Department ...
Source: SafetyLit - October 27, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

ASTRO releases rectal cancer RT guideline
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has released a new guideline...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading: CMS to delay start of RO Model for radiation therapy ASTRO critiques eviCore's benefits management policy New officers elected to ASTRO board ASTRO releases first cervical cancer guidelines ASTRO switches to online annual meeting
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - October 23, 2020 Category: Radiology Source Type: news

Trifocal-Lens Implant Frees Most From Spectacles After Cataract Surgery Trifocal-Lens Implant Frees Most From Spectacles After Cataract Surgery
Patients who receive trifocal-lens implants after cataract surgery are much less likely to need glasses than those who receive monofocal implants, according to a new confirmatory study.Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Ophthalmology Headlines - October 23, 2020 Category: Opthalmology Tags: Ophthalmology News Source Type: news

(Re)animating sociology of suicide in Bangladesh - Khan AR, Ratele K, Dery I.
Durkheim classic Le Suicide (1897) gave birth to 'sociology of suicide' and set down an influential theoretical and methodological framework to study the phenomenon. Its impact notwithstanding, the framework has received trenchant critiques as well as at...
Source: SafetyLit - October 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Suicide and Self-Harm Source Type: news

ASTRO critiques eviCore's benefits management policy
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) is expressing concerns...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading: New officers elected to ASTRO board ASTRO releases first cervical cancer guidelines ASTRO switches to online annual meeting Insurance change leads to more hypofractionated therapy ASTRO nabs VA contract to create quality indicators
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - October 1, 2020 Category: Radiology Source Type: news

Inside the Dangerous Mission to Understand What Makes Extremists Tick —and How to Change Their Minds
On a cool winter’s day in early 2014, the American academic Nafees Hamid was invited for tea at the second-story at the Barcelona apartment of a young Moroccan man. It started well enough; they sat down at the kitchen table, chatting amiably in French while two acquaintances of the host sat nearby in the living room. Halfway through the conversation, though, things took a turn. “He started saying things like, ‘Why should we trust any Westerner?’” Hamid recalls. “‘Why would we not kill every one of them? Why should I even trust you—you are an American—sitting here? Why s...
Source: TIME: Science - September 2, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Emily Feldman and Malia Politzer Tags: Uncategorized extremism feature Londontime Source Type: news

Association of vaping-related lung injuries with rates of e-cigarette and cannabis use across US states - Friedman AS.
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Responses to the 2019 US outbreak of 'e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury' (EVALI) ranged from temporary restrictions on nicotine e-cigarette sales to critiques of state cannabis policies. Yet, if either mass-marke...
Source: SafetyLit - August 28, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Researchers publish scathing critique of a hydroxychloroquine study touted by the White House
Researchers on Wednesday published scathing critiques of a study President Trump repeatedly touted on Twitter. That study, published earlier this month in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, claimed to show that hydroxychloroquine saved lives.
Source: CNN.com - Health - July 31, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Transcending false dichotomies and diagnostic silos to reduce disease burden in mental disorders - McGorry PD, Nelson B, Wood SJ, Shah JL, Malla A, Yung A.
The at-risk mental state (ARMS) strategy for psychosis, although highly influential, remains contested, with recent critiques suggesting that it should be replaced with a public health/primary prevention approach. Implicit in these is a pessimistic stance ...
Source: SafetyLit - July 22, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Tobacco Industry Factoid on Illicit Trade Leading Governments Astray
Credit: SEATCABy Sophapan Ratanachena-McWhortor and Dr. Hana RossBANGKOK, Thailand, Jul 21 2020 (IPS) A factoid is unreliable information repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact. One such factoid repeatedly echoed across the globe by the tobacco industry is that tobacco tax increases worsen cigarette smuggling. For governments facing challenges to curb smuggling, particularly in the global South, this factoid has scared political leaders from effectively using taxes as a public health tool. Tax increases used as part of comprehensive tobacco control have been shown to successfully reduce smoking in many countri...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 21, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sophapan Ratanachena-McWhortor and Dr. Hana Ross Tags: Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Global Headlines Health Inequity IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news

Breaking down the pseudo-pacification process: eight critiques of ultra-realist crime causation theory - Wood MA, Anderson B, Richards I.
This paper critically examines ultra-realist criminology's two central crime causation theories: the breakdown of the pseudo-pacification process and special liberty. We identify a number of shortcomings in these theories pertaining to (1) their explanatio...
Source: SafetyLit - July 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Commentary Source Type: news

Une technologie laser pour protéger les infrastructures critiques contre la foudre
La foudre peut causer des dommages importants aux bâtiments et aux infrastructures critiques comme les aéroports. Pour atténuer ce risque, un projet de l’UE utilise une technologie laser puissante pour contrôler l’endroit où frappe la foudre. Le paratonnerre laser qui en résulte pourrait permettre d’économiser de l’argent et de sauver des vies.
Source: EUROPA - Research Information Centre - July 3, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: news

Current critiques of the WHO policy on female genital mutilation - Earp BD, Johnsdotter S.
In recent years, the dominant Western discourse on "female genital mutilation" (FGM) has increasingly been challenged by scholars. Numerous researchers contest both the terminology used and the empirical claims made in what has come to be called "the stand...
Source: SafetyLit - June 1, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Commentary Source Type: news

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