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However, it can come with broader health consequences which may lead to an increased risk for hospitalization and death. ...
Ethan Basch is Physician-in-Chief of the North Carolina Cancer Hospital and Chief of Oncology at the University of North Carolina (UNC), where he is a Distinguished Professor in Medical Oncology and Professor of Health Policy & Management. Debra Patt, MD, Ph.D., MBA – A community oncology leader, clinical informatics specialist, and breast cancer ...
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
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. ...
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 ...
And employees at all levels continue to be worried about their own health, the health of their family members, and the health of their companies. ...
So, what is happening, in terms of policies and recommendations, to reduce incidence of mental health? Is mental health in the workplace on the road toward being recognized, by law, as an occupational disease? ...
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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The Strategic Framework for Action on Palliative and End of Life Care is Scotland’s response to a resolution passed in 2014 by the World Health Assembly – the governing body of the World Health Organisation, – requiring all governments to recognise palliative care and to make provision for it in their national health ...
It is one of the most serious public health problems that significantly increase the risk of many chronic illnesses. ...
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. This paper explores some of the complexities of an ageing population in Nepal and focuses on examining the various ...
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 ...
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. In this paper, we describe a process in which ...
Because XTP could produce considerable public health gains, advocates want to proceed to human clinical trials as soon as possible. ...
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 use benefit-cost analysis supported ...
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 the decision ...