Beneficial roles of social support for mental health vary in the Japanese population depending on disaster experience: a nationwide cross-sectional study - Ozaki A, Horiuchi S, Kobayashi Y, Inoue M, Aida J, Leppold C, Yamaoka K.
The purpose of the present study was to assess the effects of social capital on mental health among the Japanese population with or without natural disaster experience. A nationwide cross-sectional study was performed in the population aged 15 to 79 years ...
Source: SafetyLit - December 16, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news

The Roadblocks to Universal Health Coverage and How NGOs Can Help Remove Them
By Pape Amadou Gaye, Chief Executive OfficerDecember 18, 2018There are two big things holding us back.en fran çaisWhy haven ’t we achieved health for all yet? Forty years ago, the global health community committed to achieving primary health care for all by 2000. But today, about half of the world ’s population still does not have full access to essential health services.Could public-private partnerships finally get us there? Last month at the Africa Health Business Symposium (AHBS) in Johannesburg, an annual event we helped sponsor, hundreds of health ministers, government officials, business representatives an...
Source: IntraHealth International - December 14, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: mnathe Tags: Leadership and Governance Policy & Advocacy Private-Sector Approaches health financing Primary Health Care Source Type: news

Baby hears for first time with cochlear implants
One month after 7-month-old Aida Little was born, her parents realized she couldn't hear. Experts at Mayo Clinic diagnosed Aida with a condition called Waardenburg syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that causes deafness and pigment changes of the hair, eyes and skin.? In October, a surgical team at Mayo placed cochlear implants into Aida's head [...]
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - November 13, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

Storms, Floods in Sicily Kill at least 12 People
ROME (AP) — Storm-related floods killed at least 12 people in Sicily, Italian authorities said Sunday, including nine members of two families who were spending a long weekend together when water and mud from a swollen river overran their rented villa. After surveying the stricken Mediterranean island by helicopter, Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte identified two more of the victims as a German couple whose car was swept away by flood waters near Agrigento, a tourist town known for its ancient Greek temples. Italian news reports said a 1-year--old, a 3-year-old and a teenager were among the flood victims from the family get...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - November 5, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Frances D'Emilio, Associated Press Tags: Major Incidents News International Source Type: news

FDA Adds More Drugs To Valsartan Recall List
(CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration again added to its list of products that are included in the recall of drugs containing valsartan, a generic ingredient that helps people with high blood pressure and heart failure. That ingredient in the recalled drugs was tainted with a possible carcinogen. The FDA testing of these products determined that an additional lot of brands sold under the name RemedyRepack needed to be added to the recall list. See The Full List Here (PDF) Several pills that contain valsartan have been under a voluntary recall since July. The drugs were tainted with N-nitrosodimethylamine, or ND...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - October 25, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Health News Local TV Valsartan Source Type: news

Does the type of temporary housing make a difference in social participation and health for evacuees of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami?: A Cross-sectional Study - Kusama T, Aida J, Sugiyama K, Matsuyama Y, Koyama S, Sato Y, Yamamoto T, Igarashi A, Tsuboya T, Osaka K.
We examined whether prevalent...
Source: SafetyLit - October 24, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news

Community-level social capital and cognitive decline after a natural disaster: a natural experiment from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami - Hikichi H, Aida J, Matsuyama Y, Tsuboya T, Kondo K, Kawachi I.
We examined prospectively whether community-level social capital can mitigate the adverse effects of natural disaster on cognitive decline in the aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. The baseline for our natural experimental study...
Source: SafetyLit - October 11, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news

Petition with the Food and Drug Administration Requesting Regulation of Dangerously Acidic Oral Moisturizers
The objective of the study was to measure the pH levels, titratable acidity, and erosive effect of commercially distributed dry mouth lozenges on dentin.The research identified seven oral moisturizers for dry mouth sold in the US that have a pH level below 5.5 and caused significant amounts of tooth erosion:  - OraMoist®, by DenTek™ (2.9 pH)   - Mouth Kote®, by Parnell Pharmaceuticals (3.0 pH)  - Cotton Mouth Lozenges®, by Cotton Mouth Candy Company (3.1 pH)   - MedActive® Oral Relief Lozenges (3.2 pH)   - Hager Pharma Dry Mouth Drops (4.4 pH)   - Rite Aid®...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - October 4, 2018 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news

Self-assembly of lattices with high structural complexity from a geometrically simple molecule
Here we report an anomalous porous molecular crystal built of C–H···N-bonded double-layered roof-floor components and wall components of a segregatively interdigitated architecture. This complicated porous structure consists of only one type of fully aromatic multijoint molecule carrying three identical dipyridylphenyl wedges. Despite its high symmetry, this molecule accomplishes difficult tasks by using two of its three wedges for roof-floor formation and using its other wedge for wall formation. Although a C–H···N bond is extremely labile, the porous crystal maintains...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 20, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Yamagishi, H., Sato, H., Hori, A., Sato, Y., Matsuda, R., Kato, K., Aida, T. Tags: Chemistry reports Source Type: news

The Best Job In Pharma Right Now? The Sales Rep
Every business likes to believe that it knows its customers. We know who and where they are, what they like and what they don ’t, and, most important of all, what they need.In the past, we relied on anecdotal evidence and gut feeling, more recently on market research and segmentation. But now, as the data trickle swells to a torrent and the digital revolution continues to transform our lives and our expectations, customers are seeking a fundamentally different, more personalized and evidence-based relationship.The pharmaceutical sales force lies at the epicenter of this seismic shift.Sales reps carry an incredibly valuab...
Source: EyeForPharma - September 15, 2018 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Katie Osborne Source Type: news

The Best Job in Pharma Right Now? The Sales Rep
Every business likes to believe that it knows its customers. We know who and where they are, what they like and what they don ’t, and, most important of all, what they need.In the past, we relied on anecdotal evidence and gut feeling, more recently on market research and segmentation. But now, as the data trickle swells to a torrent and the digital revolution continues to transform our lives and our expectations, customers are seeking a fundamentally different, more personalized and evidence-based relationship.The pharmaceutical sales force lies at the epicenter of this seismic shift.Sales reps carry an incredibly valuab...
Source: EyeForPharma - September 15, 2018 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Katie Osborne Source Type: news

FDA Finds Another Carcinogen in Certain Valsartan Heart Meds
FRIDAY, Sept. 14, 2018 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns that it has found a second impurity in three lots of Torrent Pharmaceuticals ' valsartan drug products. The FDA first recalled valsartan medicines back in July, after the Chinese...
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - September 14, 2018 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

FDA finds another impurity in recalled heart drug
The US Food and Drug Administration said it found additional "unexpected impurity" in three lots of Torrent Pharmaceuticals' recalled valsartan drug.
Source: CNN.com - Health - September 14, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

New institute to address massive data demands from upgraded Large Hadron Collider
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has launched the Institute for Research and Innovation in Software for High-Energy Physics (IRIS-HEP), a $25 million effort to tackle the unprecedented torrent of data that will come from the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator. The upgraded LHC will help scientists fully understand particles such as the Higgs boson -- first observed in 2012 -- and their place in the universe. When the ... More at https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=296456&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click This is an NSF News item.
Source: NSF News - September 4, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: news

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