health surveillance News
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Listen Up! Let’s Make Noise About Hearing
Noise is one of the oldest known industrial diseases – yet we continue to apply the same approach and technology we were using over 50 years ago. Why has this topic lacked innovation and fresh ideas to move with technological advances? This webinar explores the findings of HSE research on the current quality of noise health surveillance and introduces new technology, novel approaches ...
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France: Work organisation challenged by psychosocial risks
The most recent publication of the SUMER survey focuses on psychosocial and organisational risks, investigated by using the models by Karasek and Siegrist. First results indicate that job strain concerns more women because of their lower job autonomy and possibilities to shape the work they do, for example the pace of work. Administrative staff, unskilled workers and employees, trade and service ...
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Cority Announces New Solutions for Organizations to Manage the Healthy and Effective Recovery from COVID-19
Cority, the most trusted provider of environmental, health, safety, and quality (EHSQ) software today announced the immediate availability of its newly packaged COVID-19 Workplace Health and Continuity Solutions to help organizations effectively manage critical business processes during the graduated easing of restrictions and resumption of regular activities. The post-peak period is anticipated ...
By Cority
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Preparations for all BVV trade fairs and other events carried on as usual
With respect to recommendations issued by the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, BVV Trade Fairs Brno (Veletrhy Brno, a.s.) prepares all planned trade fairs and other events according to its 2020 exhibition calendar. The Czech health authorities have strengthened surveillance measurements in response to the international spread of the coronavirus disease. At the moment there has been no ...
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World Malaria Day 2015
On April 25th people across the globe take part in a wide range of activities to mark World Malaria Day. For half the world every day is malaria day - a day to keep up the fight against this killer disease. The World Malaria Day theme from 2013 – 2015 is ‘Invest in the future, defeat malaria’. The theme provides a common platform for countries to showcase their successes in ...
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Wastewater testing can enhance response to COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean
Wastewater testing provides a relatively economic method whereby countries in Latin America and the Caribbean can improve their detection, diagnosis, control, and monitoring systems for viruses that cause diseases like COVID-19 and its variants. This tool, which complements clinical studies, allows public policymakers to have a comprehensive, sustainable, early warning, and equitable tool ...
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ESA supports efforts to protect public health and safety
A consortium of Portuguese and Italian companies, led by the Portuguese National Health Institute and with the support of ESA, is developing a Health Early Warning System designed to enable timely detection and tracking of emerging threats to public health and safety via satellite. The Health Early Warning System (HEWS) system is being developed as an integrated management platform devised to ...
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ESA joins the fight for health and safety
The European Space Agency is throwing its full support behind an initiative spearheaded by the Portuguese National Health Institute for the development of a Health Early Warning System (HEWS). This system will enable the timely detection and tracking of emerging threats to public health and safety via satellite. Originally the brainchild of the Portuguese National Health Institute (INSA), the ...
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Cority Releases New Solutions to Help Companies Return to Productivity Amidst COVID-19
Cority, the most trusted provider of environmental, health, safety and quality (EHSQ) software, today announced the release of two new, rapidly deployable solutions to help businesses manage operational risks and quickly return to work and productivity during COVID-19. Developed on its unified, cloud-based platform, and designed by Cority’s internal experts following recommendations from ...
By Cority
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches Wastewater Isolation Kit for SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance
Since the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, public health laboratories and researchers have been developing surveillance methods using wastewater to control the spread of COVID-19. The effort has helped identify asymptomatic carriers on college campuses to monitor regional spread among communities and capture emerging mutations ahead of potential future outbreaks. To support these efforts, Thermo Fisher ...
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SpyBiotech announces the appointments of Dan Menichella as Non-Executive Director and Dr Norman Begg as Scientific Advisor
SpyBiotech announces the appointments of Dan Menichella as Non-Executive Director and Dr Norman Begg as Scientific Advisor Oxford, U.K., March 8, 2021: SpyBiotech, a British biotechnology company with a novel vaccine platform technology targeting infectious diseases, cancer and chronic diseases, today announces the appointments of Dan Menichella as an independent, non-executive director and ...
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Updates TaqMan SARS-CoV-2 Mutation Panel to Enable Direct Identification of Omicron Variant
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced an update to its Applied Biosystems TaqMan SARS-CoV-2 Mutation Panel to enable direct detection of the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant. The panel is designed with a customizable menu of real-PCR genotyping assays to accurately identify known SARS-COV-2 variants in just over an hour. South African researchers first ...
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AventaMed selected as Test Case for RWE by NESTcc
The National Evaluation System for health Technology Coordinating Center (NESTcc), an initiative of the Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC), announces twelve new Test-Cases which leverage Real-World Evidence (RWE) and address key priorities for medical device stakeholders. These Test-Cases are intended to accelerate NESTcc’s progress and provide proof of concept for NESTcc’s ...
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Fourteen days of poor air quality caused 4 000 extra healthcare visits in UK
Real time monitoring of public health during two periods of high air pollution in the UK showed that there were an estimated 3 500 extra healthcare visits for acute respiratory symptoms and approximately 500 for severe asthma during these spells in 2014. The results of this research are presented in a new study which demonstrates the value of such ‘syndromic surveillance’ systems for ...
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