Congo-Kinshasa: MSF Responds to the Worrying Increase in Measles Cases
[MSF] Measles is once again on the rise in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The recent upsurge in cases - more than 13,000 since January 1st - is a major source of concern for M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 2, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news

New onDiem Paid Time Off Benefit Another “Game Changer” for Temporary Dental Professionals
  PORTLAND, Oregon – There are a lot of benefits to be gained from a career in dentistry, though for many dental team members, paid time off (PTO) is not one of them. onDiem, a national dental staffing company who provides temporary, permanent, and flexible staffing options, now offers PTO —in addition to a comprehensive benefits package—to dental professionals who work through their platform. This “no strings attached” benefit has no cap, begins accruing immediately, and can be used at the professional’s discretion. “Benefits like access to affordable healthcare and paid time off are a ba...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - March 24, 2021 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news

Ethiopia: Health Facilities Targeted in Tigray Region, Ethiopia - MSF
[MSF] Health facilities across Ethiopia's Tigray region have been looted, vandalised and destroyed in a deliberate and widespread attack on healthcare, according to teams from M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Of 106 health facilities visited by MSF teams between mid-December 2020 and early March 2021, nearly 70% had been looted, and more than 30% had been damaged; just 13% were functioning normally.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 15, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Spin injection sans magnetism
Source: ScienceNOW - March 11, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Szuromi, P. Tags: Chemistry, Materials Science twis Source Type: news

Un moyen révolutionnaire pour traiter le syndrome du grêle court
Le syndrome du grêle court est un trouble médical sans remède connu et aux options thérapeutiques limitées. Un projet financé par l’UE entendait toutefois remédier à cette situation en créant un intestin grêle fonctionnel à l’aide des cellules ou du tissu des patients. Le résultat pourrait améliorer considérablement les chances de survie et le niveau de vie des personnes atteintes de ce trouble.
Source: EUROPA - Research Information Centre - February 17, 2021 Category: Research Source Type: news

Nigeria: 'Noma, a Disease That Should Not Exist Anymore'
[Nigeria Health Watch] Medecins Sans Fronti ères/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in partnership with the International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases (ISNTD) and other organizations is holding an online conference "Noma, a disease that should not exist anymore" to open a discussion about the neglected disease noma, and expand the netw ork of people advocating for attention to this disease.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 9, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Southern Africa: Urgent Need for Vaccines as New Covid-19 Strain Ravages Countries
[MSF] As a highly infectious new strain of COVID-19 spreads through southern Africa, health workers in Mozambique, Eswatini and Malawi are struggling to treat escalating numbers of patients with little prospect of being vaccinated to protect them from the virus. M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urges for COVID-19 vaccines to be distributed equitably, prioritising and protecting frontline health workers and people at highest risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19 in all countries, including in
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 8, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Africa: No More Neglected Diseases, No More Neglected Patients
[MSF] Patients with neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) need better access to diagnosis and to treatment that is safe and effective, said M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a new report, Overcoming neglect, that calls for an improved global response to NTDs in order to prevent further deaths and disability.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 29, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Malawi: Malawi Is Overwhelmed By Second Wave of Coronavirus Covid-19
[MSF] After being relatively spared by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Malawi is now being swept by a new, fast-spreading wave of the disease that is quickly overwhelming the healthcare system. In the first few weeks of January 2021, the number of people confirmed with the disease has doubled every four to five days, and while the local capacity is already saturated, access to vaccines is likely a few months away. M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) responded to a call by the health authorities in the ca
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 28, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Ethiopia: Providing Assistance to People in Ethiopia and Sudan in Wake of Tigray Violence
[MSF] Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia after fighting broke out in early November 2020, according to OCHA.ReliefWeb - Ethiopia - Tigray Region Humanitarian Update Situation Report, 6 January 2021. Some 50,000 people have crossed in to Sudan as refugees, while many others are displaced within the region, staying in towns, remote areas or trapped between localised outbreaks of fighting. Teams from M édecins Sans Frontières
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 13, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news

TNCs Reviving TPP Frankenstein
By Jomo Kwame SundaramKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan 12 2021 (IPS) The incoming Biden administration is under tremendous pressure to demonstrate better US economic management. Trade negotiations normally take years to conclude, if at all. Unsurprisingly, lobbyists are already urging the next US administration to quickly embrace and deliver a new version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Jomo Kwame Sundaram Trump legacy Repackaging and reselling a TPP avatar will not be easy. Well before Trump’s election, even the official mid-2016 International Trade Commission’s assessment doubted Peterson Institute of Internation...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - January 12, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jomo Kwame Sundaram Tags: Economy & Trade Featured Financial Crisis Global Globalisation Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse North America TerraViva United Nations Trade & Investment Source Type: news

Mali: Patient Dies After an MSF Ambulance Is Detained in Mali
[MSF] Bamako, Mali -- A M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ambulance transporting patients between Douentza and Sévaré, in central Mali, was violently stopped by armed men for hours on Tuesday 5 January, resulting in the death of one of the patients onboard. MSF strongly condemns this serious obstruction of medical aid, and calls on all parties to the conflict to respect humanitarian and medical action and the civilian population.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 8, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Doctors Without Borders Lends a Gloved Hand to U.S. Nursing Homes
Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the medical humanitarian care organization that has worked for 50 years in conflict zones and on infectious disease outbreaks throughout the world, for the first time in its history has stepped into more than 750 long-term care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic — including dozens of nursing homes in Michigan and Texas.
Source: Caring for the Ages - December 29, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: Christine Kilgore Source Type: news

Imaging of ballistic wounds, bullet composition and implications for MRI safety
(American Roentgen Ray Society) According to an article in ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), because patients with ballistic embedded fragments are frequently denied MRI (due to indeterminate bullet composition sans shell casings), radiography and CT can be used to identify nonferromagnetic projectiles that are safe for MRI.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - December 29, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Intellectual Property Monopolies Block Vaccine Access
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame SundaramSYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 15 2020 (IPS) Just before the World Health Assembly (WHA), an 18 May open letter by world leaders and experts urged governments to ensure that all COVID-19 vaccines, treatments and tests are patent-free, fairly distributed and available to all, free of charge. Pious promises Leaders of Italy, France, Germany, Norway and the European Commission called for the vaccine to be “produced by the world, for the whole world” as a “global public good of the 21st century”, while China’s President Xi promised a vaccine developed by China would be a “glo...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - December 15, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Tags: Civil Society Development & Aid Economy & Trade Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Jomo Kwame Sundaram & Anis Chowdhury Source Type: news

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