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Infectious diseases like influenza can be threats to public health and our economy. At the OPTIONS XI for the Control of Influenza conference, leading influenza vaccines provider CSL Seqirus, joined academic, government, research and industry stakeholders to discuss and learn more about influenza and its impact. Below, CSL Seqirus shared additional insights into topics of interest to the ...
Navigating Cancer is filling an important role in the healthcare community during a time that has placed tremendous pressure on healthcare providers to better support a growing and diverse patient population, outside-of-the-clinic. Digital health tools and remote symptom monitoring enable more efficient care delivery and improve patient outcomes – while providing actionable insights based ...
An innovative field study in Southwest Florida has identified several neurotoxins in the state’s air and water. The three forms of BMAA – beta-Methylamino-L-alanine – are associated with brain diseases. The study conducted by Calusa Waterkeeper volunteers and analysed by Wyoming’s Brain Chemistry Labs identified two forms of BMAA in every sample from 945 completed over ...
Abstract Drug discovery and development is an expensive, complex, and time-consuming task [5]. Recently, the development of artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to drug discovery, specifically de novo drug design through the use of deep generative models, has triggered a lot of interest in the drug hunter community, especially as an important tool to speed up the process ...
ByIktos
Federal OSHA's Congressionally assigned scope is protection of employees from hazards created within the workplace by work processes and work materials. For every past pandemic, OSHA has made the distinction that general protective measures are under the purview of the Department of Health. This is the first time OSHA has stepped into the public health arena. To clarify the difference, ...
Summary Specialist design, planning and implementation Located on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way coastline, Kerry Airport services one of the country’s premier tourist destinations. To ensure the highest levels of security and a superior customer experience, the decision was made to replace existing passenger checkpoint security scanners with the latest ECAC EDS CB C3 compliant ...
Organizations have made dozens of changes to HR policies in response to the fast-moving coronavirus crisis. Initial concerns about work-from-home edicts and restrictions on travel have given way to simply keeping employees safe and the company running – all while navigating a myriad of constantly shifting pandemic-related jurisdictional rules. Both employees and employers are reeling from ...
Among the countless number of occupational diseases workers are exposed to globally, mental health issues have proved to be one of the most dangerous. Studies continue to confirm their accountability for a majority of long-term leaves from work, just behind cancer. Although there has been marked increase in campaigns addressing mental health and its consequences in the workplace, there remains a ...
The amazing thing, however, is that cutting emissions for climate change policy also saves lives. More than 7 million people die annually from air pollution, so this health “co-benefit” from energy policy choices is not trivial. ...
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A research study has been published by the Primary palliative care research group in Scotland, jointly carried out between Lothian NHS, the University of Edinburgh, and the Marie Curie charity. It found the need for more consistency in care and treatment at an earlier stage in terminal illness. Improvement in service has occurred, and the Scottish Government is funding further improvement under ...
Obesity is rapidly increasing in the USA. It is one of the most serious public health problems that significantly increase the risk of many chronic illnesses. Obesity disproportionately affects people with lower incomes and minority groups and imposes a heavy financial burden on the healthcare system in the USA. Thus, there is a critical need for healthcare policies that are designed to stem the ...
Longevity is a relatively recent phenomenon in Nepal; over the past few decades the priority in Nepal has been reducing infant and maternal mortality. With an increasingly ageing population and changing patterns of migration, this brings with it challenges to Nepali society in terms of meeting the needs of an ageing population and creating a policy environment that ensures these needs are met. ...
Using compiled bacterial analyses to predict water quality when certain conditions are observed provides a way to establish a proactive public health policy. In this study, the authors reviewed using the geometric mean various conditions including the amount of rain in previous days, wind direction and speed, tides and high tide height, water temperature, drought or flood conditions for the ...
One of the key challenges in environment and health research is the measurement and interpretation of this complex relation, whereas one of the key challenges in environment and health policy-making is the translation of environment and health data to policy measures. ...
Xenotransplantation (XTP) involves the transplantation of cells, tissues and organs from non-human mammals (usually pigs) to humans. Because XTP could produce considerable public health gains, advocates want to proceed to human clinical trials as soon as possible. However, XTP also raises complex regulatory issues, since virtually all scientists agree that there is a risk of pig endogenous ...
Protecting human health is a primary goal of environmental policy and economic evaluation of health can help policy-makers judge the relative worth of alternative actions. Economists use two distinct approaches in normatively evaluating health. Whereas environmental economists ...
This paper discusses links between two approaches to the value of health: the willingness to pay approach of environmental economics and the quality-adjusted life year approach of health economics. The approaches are used in cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses of health interventions. Despite fundamental differences in ...