HEALTH

The Hoof Trimmers Association holds a Hoof Health Conference every 18 months. This year's conference was Feb. 22-24 in Orlando, Florida. There was an additional day spent on a farm where trimmers could see cows being trimmed with new equipment as well as a cadaver lab.
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2 years ago Read more at Ag Proud

Pope Francis appeared in better shape ahead of busy Easter week schedule. 87-year-old has been suffering from cold, bronchitis and influenza for more than a month. The pope is due to preside over a number of religious services and ceremonies.
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2 years ago Read more at Monitor

Governments should treat vaccine mandates like other health policies and review them regularly in context of changing evidence. This is why NSW and some other states require staff in health or aged care to get flu vaccines each year. However, there’s a risk vaccine or mandate opponents will use this opportunity to claim mandates were never necessary.
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2 years ago Read more at The Conversation Indonesia

Jan Lee The Straits Times March 27, 2024 Actress Julie Tan shaved her head to play a cancer-stricken social worker in the local movie Good Goodbye. It is about palliative care and follows the journey of three terminally ill patients and their loved ones. Tan plays Cindy, a medical social worker living with cancer who develops a romance with a nurse named Zheng (Tosh Zhang)
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2 years ago Read more at STOMP

In a pilot programme last year, Harvard researchers provided mental health influencers with simple toolkits (and in some cases, training from public health experts) The goal: to flood the zone with good information in the hope of drowning out the bad. The effect was small – just a 3% increase in references to those topics – but even small shifts can matter.
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2 years ago Read more at The Star Online

Of total recorded pertussis cases, 356 — or 62.7 percent — were infants below six months old, the DOH said. The number of new cases logged in the weeks starting March 3 and March 10 have gone down to only 73.
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2 years ago Read more at asianews.network

Jean Carlos Aponte, 40, is in critical condition at the hospital after an apparent self-induced drug overdose. On Tuesday, his wife Sara Ashley Gama, 38, and 2-year-old son, Ethan, were found dead inside their home. Police have not released how or why he allegedly killed his wife and child.
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2 years ago Read more at NBC 6 South Florida

Syed Qasim Ali Shah held a meeting with a delegation from UNICEF. Other members of the delega­tion included Dr. Inam­ullah, Health Specialist, Aien Khan Afridi, Nutri­tion Specialist, and Dr. Kamran Qureshi, Immu­nization Officer.
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2 years ago Read more at The Nation

Kenya received provisional approval for the Yr. 2 PEPFAR Country Operational plan (COP) – USD 322,000,000 (KES43B) funding for HIV response whose implementation will run from 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025. This was announced during the COP 23 approval meeting.
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2 years ago Read more at Ventures Africa

Table 1 Correlation matrix and principal component analysis results We use the PCA approach to construct the quality of governance and ICT indices. The results in Panel A1 of Table 1 show evidence of high and moderate collinearity between these indicators. On average, government health expenditure accounted for only 1.60 percent of THE, with a standard deviation of 96.93 USD, indicating significant variations between countries. Countries in the final club 1 are the worst-performing among African countries regarding OOPHE per capita.
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2 years ago Read more at Globalization and Health