A human immune system sans MAIT cells
Source: ScienceNOW - July 29, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Balasubramani, A. Tags: twis Source Type: news

Africa: Diagnostic Company Cepheid Charging More Than It Should for Covid-19 Tests
[MSF] Geneva -- Given the urgent global need for rapid, point-of-care diagnostic tests to deal with the continuous spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on US diagnostics firm Cepheid to allocate its COVID-19 tests (Xpert Xpress SARS-COV2) equitably and affordably across all countries. MSF called on Cepheid to refrain from profiteering off of the pandemic, by lowering the price of each test to US$5 from the near ly $20 it charges in the world's poorest countries, in
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 29, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news

The World Needs You. Now.
Yasmine Sherif is Director, Education Cannot WaitBy Yasmine SherifNEW YORK, Jul 20 2020 (IPS) “We may all come on different ships, but we are in the same boat now,” Martin Luther King Jr once said. His timeless wisdom rings truer than ever today for the many challenges the world is facing. COVID-19, continued armed conflicts and forced displacement, climate-change induced disasters, deep divides and widespread discrimination mark the human family in the 21st century. Yasmine SherifWhile COVID-19 is indeed a health crisis, the state of the world is in a bigger, multi-dimensional crisis. The one safe solution is educati...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Yasmine Sherif Tags: Armed Conflicts Climate Change Crime & Justice Economy & Trade Education Gender Violence Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news

SPION contrast could improve low-field MRI
A new type of MRI contrast technology based on superparamagnetic iron oxide...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading: Low-field MRI scanner has interventional advantages Portable scanner could boost point-of-care brain MRI Low-field MRI ensures safe scans with implanted devices New nanomaterial may detect Alzheimer's disease earlier Prototype MR unit offers fine spatial, temporal resolution -- sans magnet
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - July 17, 2020 Category: Radiology Source Type: news

Africa: US Withdrawal From WHO 'Dangerous and Self-Defeating' - MSF
[MSF] New York -- The Trump Administration's decision to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO) could have life-threatening consequences for people around the globe, said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The WHO, while in need of reforms, plays a vital role in coordinating global medical research, producing evidence-based guidelines, and supporting national governments to respond to urgent public health crises.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 9, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Africa: Providing Safe Abortion Care During National Lockdown
[MSF] In 2015, Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) surveyed 800 women between the ages of 18 and 49 in Rustenburg and found that one in four women had been raped in her lifetime, yet fewer than 5 percent of those women reported to a health care facility. Since then, MSF has run several sexual and reproductive health p rograms for the community-- including for survivors of sexual violence-- across Bojanala district, in partnership with local health authorities. In addition to commu
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - July 8, 2020 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news

Africa: MSF Response to UNAIDS 2020 Global Aids Update
[MSF] New York/Geneva -- As the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) released its 2020 Global AIDS Update Report today, Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) remains concerned that COVID-19 will interrupt lifesaving care for people living with HIV/AIDS--a group at a higher risk of becoming severely sick if infected with COVID-19.
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - July 7, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Africa: MSF Welcomes Price Cut On Lifesaving TB Drug
[MSF] New York/Geneva -- The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes Johnson& Johnson's (J&J) announcement today to reduce the price of its tuberculosis (TB) drug bedaquiline to $1.50 per day. Governments must now urgently scale up the use of the treatment as a core part of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) regimens, MSF said.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 7, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Coronavirus gives global doctors' group a new frontier: US nursing homes
As a coordinator and communicator with Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), Heather Pagano has worked in Liberia helping communities fight Ebola; with refugees in Nigeria fleeing conflict; and in South Sudan, where violence has forced millions of people out of their homes.
Source: CNN.com - Health - July 2, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Coronavirus Vaccine: Here Are The Latest Developments
(CNN) — While coronavirus keeps spreading and killing with impunity, the world waits for a vaccine that could quash the pandemic. But details and timelines keep shifting. Here’s the latest on where we stand in the race for a vaccine: When will a Covid-19 vaccine be available to the public? No one’s sure yet, but the target is sometime in early 2021. Vaccines in development around the world are in various stages of testing. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he’s confident one of the vaccine candidates will be proven safe and effective by th...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - June 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Boston News Closures Covid-19 Boston, MA Health Healthcare Status Coronavirus Coronavirus Vaccine Moderna Therapeutics Source Type: news

Congo-Kinshasa: 200,000 People Flee Attacks On Villages and Health Care Centers in Ituri Province
[MSF] Nearly 200,000 people fled their homes in the last two months as violence escalated in Ituri province, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 6, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Previously claimed memory boosting font 'Sans Forgetica' does not actually boost memory
(University of Warwick) It was previously claimed that the font Sans Forgetica could enhance people's memory for information, however researchers from the University of Warwick and the University of Waikato, New Zealand, have found after carrying out numerous experiments that the font does not enhance memory.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - May 28, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

COVID-19 – China Tells World Health Assembly They Did their Best
People wearing face masks at a Bus stop in Macau, China near a public hospital. This week’s 73rd World Health Assembly had member states adopt a resolution to review the global response to the coronavirus pandemic. Photo by Macau Photo Agency on UnsplashBy Samira SadequeUNITED NATIONS, May 20 2020 (IPS) This week’s 73rd World Health Assembly had member states adopt a resolution to review the global response to the coronavirus pandemic. The World Health Organisation (WHO) will also undergo  an evaluation for its response to the outbreak. At the virtual assembly, Chinese President Xi Jinping outlined China’s response...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Samira Sadeque Tags: Aid Development & Aid Featured Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse Poverty & SDGs Regional Categories TerraViva United Nations COVID-19 World Health Assembly World Health Organisation (W Source Type: news

Hostility is associated with self-reported cognitive and social benefits across massively multiplayer online role-playing game player roles - Smith CM, Rauwolf P, Intriligator J, Rogers RD.
Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) can sometimes be associated with patterns of play that are harmful to health and well-being. Hazardous MMORPG play has been linked to hostility (toward other people). However, little is known about ...
Source: SafetyLit - May 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Dr. Raymond: Sans vaccine, Wisconsin will have to maintain social distancing as economy reopens
Wisconsin will have to double down on its efforts to practice social distancing as the economy reopens until a Covid-19 vaccine is available, said Dr. John Raymond Sr. During his daily briefing Friday, Raymond, president and chief executive officer of the Medical College of Wisconsin, said data shows the state has reached equilibrium with the virus. Progress is bending down the “curve” of the pandemic’s spread stalled about two weeks ago, he said. Raymo nd examined what he called a “reproductive…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - May 8, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Sari Lesk Source Type: news

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