‘No Credible Pathway’ to Limit Warming to 1.5°C, Systemic Transformation Only Option to Avert Climate Collapse 27/10/2022 Stefan Anderson The existential project to save the planet set out by the 2016 Paris Agreement is in tatters. There is currently “no credible pathway” to limit increases in global temperatures to the 1.5°C degree target detailed in the accords, the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) said in its global emissions gap report released Thursday. The chance of […] Continue reading -> Countries’ Latest Climate Commitments Still Increase Global Emissions 10.6% by 2030 26/10/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Countries’ voluntary commitments to fight climate change will still mean an increase in global emissions by some 10.6% as of 2030, according to the latest report of UN Climate Change, which tabulates the most recent ‘Nationally Determined Commitments (NDCs) of countries to the climate battle. This represents only a slight “improvement” over the commitments as […] Continue reading -> China Dishes Out First Aerosol COVID-19 Boosters Amid New Wuhan Lockdown 26/10/2022 Kerry Cullinan China administered the world’s first oral aerosol COVID-19 vaccine boosters in Shanghai on Wednesday, as new lockdown measures were imposed on Wuhan, the supposed birthplace of the pandemic. Chinese vaccine manufacturer CanSino Biologics said in a media statement that the inclusion of its vaccine in Shanghai’s booster vaccination program marked “the start of the rollout […] Continue reading -> WHO and Civil Society Raise Alarm Over Growing Threat of Drug-Resistant Fungi to Public Health 25/10/2022 Megha Kaveri & Elaine Ruth Fletcher The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised the alarm over drug-resistant fungi as it released its first-ever priority list of fungal pathogens at risk from antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Nineteen species of fungi have been identified by the global health agency as representing “the greatest threat to public health” due to their growing drug resistance. Meanwhile, […] Continue reading -> Hospitals in Haiti Facing Shutdown as Cholera Threat Escalates 21/10/2022 Stefan Anderson Hospitals in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince face the threat of shutting down if fuel supplies for diesel power generators and vital medical supplies aren’t made available soon, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned Friday. “We will not be able to operate our medical facilities for more than a few weeks if we do not have access […] Continue reading -> From Bedside to Boardroom – Parliamentarians Claim their Place in Global Health Debates 20/10/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher BERLIN – Nearly 20 years ago, Ricardo Baptista Leite began his work as a young medical doctor in an infectious disease ward in Portugal – an experience that changed his life. “I met patients who couldn’t make it to the hospital because they couldn’t afford public transportation,” he said. “I diagnosed patients infected with multi […] Continue reading -> Private-Public Drug Deal Enables Generic Production of Expensive Cancer Medicine 20/10/2022 Kerry Cullinan A precedent-setting agreement to permit an expensive cancer drug to be produced more affordably by generic manufacturers has been signed between the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and pharmaceutical company Novartis, enabling much wider access to a medicine that treats a rare blood cancer. Nilotinib is a twice-daily oral medication used to treat chronic myeloid leukaemia […] Continue reading -> Many Ways for Governments to Improve ‘Deeply Unhealthy’ Food Environment 20/10/2022 Megha Kaveri “The bottom line is that our food environment is deeply unhealthy. And unless we change that, millions of people will suffer from avoidable illness and die early from preventable death,” Dr Tom Frieden, CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, told the World Health Summit in Berlin. “Voluntary changes are much less likely to result in […] Continue reading -> Increased Self-Care Could Save $179b in Healthcare Costs 20/10/2022 Maayan Hoffman For “Nundy,” a mother of two living in South Africa’s Khayelitsha township, going to the doctor more than once a year is not an option. She would have to pay 50% of her total household income in a month in order to see a doctor, so she saves up all of her medical questions and […] Continue reading -> Lack of Cancer Detection and Treatment is Driving Deaths in Poorer Countries 19/10/2022 Kerry Cullinan Common cancers that can be treated successfully when they’re detected early – breast, cervical, colorectal and prostate – are causing high mortality in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) because of a lack of screening and treatment, Dr Cary Adams, CEO of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), told a press conference at the start […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Countries’ Latest Climate Commitments Still Increase Global Emissions 10.6% by 2030 26/10/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Countries’ voluntary commitments to fight climate change will still mean an increase in global emissions by some 10.6% as of 2030, according to the latest report of UN Climate Change, which tabulates the most recent ‘Nationally Determined Commitments (NDCs) of countries to the climate battle. This represents only a slight “improvement” over the commitments as […] Continue reading -> China Dishes Out First Aerosol COVID-19 Boosters Amid New Wuhan Lockdown 26/10/2022 Kerry Cullinan China administered the world’s first oral aerosol COVID-19 vaccine boosters in Shanghai on Wednesday, as new lockdown measures were imposed on Wuhan, the supposed birthplace of the pandemic. Chinese vaccine manufacturer CanSino Biologics said in a media statement that the inclusion of its vaccine in Shanghai’s booster vaccination program marked “the start of the rollout […] Continue reading -> WHO and Civil Society Raise Alarm Over Growing Threat of Drug-Resistant Fungi to Public Health 25/10/2022 Megha Kaveri & Elaine Ruth Fletcher The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised the alarm over drug-resistant fungi as it released its first-ever priority list of fungal pathogens at risk from antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Nineteen species of fungi have been identified by the global health agency as representing “the greatest threat to public health” due to their growing drug resistance. Meanwhile, […] Continue reading -> Hospitals in Haiti Facing Shutdown as Cholera Threat Escalates 21/10/2022 Stefan Anderson Hospitals in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince face the threat of shutting down if fuel supplies for diesel power generators and vital medical supplies aren’t made available soon, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned Friday. “We will not be able to operate our medical facilities for more than a few weeks if we do not have access […] Continue reading -> From Bedside to Boardroom – Parliamentarians Claim their Place in Global Health Debates 20/10/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher BERLIN – Nearly 20 years ago, Ricardo Baptista Leite began his work as a young medical doctor in an infectious disease ward in Portugal – an experience that changed his life. “I met patients who couldn’t make it to the hospital because they couldn’t afford public transportation,” he said. “I diagnosed patients infected with multi […] Continue reading -> Private-Public Drug Deal Enables Generic Production of Expensive Cancer Medicine 20/10/2022 Kerry Cullinan A precedent-setting agreement to permit an expensive cancer drug to be produced more affordably by generic manufacturers has been signed between the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and pharmaceutical company Novartis, enabling much wider access to a medicine that treats a rare blood cancer. Nilotinib is a twice-daily oral medication used to treat chronic myeloid leukaemia […] Continue reading -> Many Ways for Governments to Improve ‘Deeply Unhealthy’ Food Environment 20/10/2022 Megha Kaveri “The bottom line is that our food environment is deeply unhealthy. And unless we change that, millions of people will suffer from avoidable illness and die early from preventable death,” Dr Tom Frieden, CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, told the World Health Summit in Berlin. “Voluntary changes are much less likely to result in […] Continue reading -> Increased Self-Care Could Save $179b in Healthcare Costs 20/10/2022 Maayan Hoffman For “Nundy,” a mother of two living in South Africa’s Khayelitsha township, going to the doctor more than once a year is not an option. She would have to pay 50% of her total household income in a month in order to see a doctor, so she saves up all of her medical questions and […] Continue reading -> Lack of Cancer Detection and Treatment is Driving Deaths in Poorer Countries 19/10/2022 Kerry Cullinan Common cancers that can be treated successfully when they’re detected early – breast, cervical, colorectal and prostate – are causing high mortality in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) because of a lack of screening and treatment, Dr Cary Adams, CEO of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), told a press conference at the start […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
China Dishes Out First Aerosol COVID-19 Boosters Amid New Wuhan Lockdown 26/10/2022 Kerry Cullinan China administered the world’s first oral aerosol COVID-19 vaccine boosters in Shanghai on Wednesday, as new lockdown measures were imposed on Wuhan, the supposed birthplace of the pandemic. Chinese vaccine manufacturer CanSino Biologics said in a media statement that the inclusion of its vaccine in Shanghai’s booster vaccination program marked “the start of the rollout […] Continue reading -> WHO and Civil Society Raise Alarm Over Growing Threat of Drug-Resistant Fungi to Public Health 25/10/2022 Megha Kaveri & Elaine Ruth Fletcher The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised the alarm over drug-resistant fungi as it released its first-ever priority list of fungal pathogens at risk from antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Nineteen species of fungi have been identified by the global health agency as representing “the greatest threat to public health” due to their growing drug resistance. Meanwhile, […] Continue reading -> Hospitals in Haiti Facing Shutdown as Cholera Threat Escalates 21/10/2022 Stefan Anderson Hospitals in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince face the threat of shutting down if fuel supplies for diesel power generators and vital medical supplies aren’t made available soon, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned Friday. “We will not be able to operate our medical facilities for more than a few weeks if we do not have access […] Continue reading -> From Bedside to Boardroom – Parliamentarians Claim their Place in Global Health Debates 20/10/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher BERLIN – Nearly 20 years ago, Ricardo Baptista Leite began his work as a young medical doctor in an infectious disease ward in Portugal – an experience that changed his life. “I met patients who couldn’t make it to the hospital because they couldn’t afford public transportation,” he said. “I diagnosed patients infected with multi […] Continue reading -> Private-Public Drug Deal Enables Generic Production of Expensive Cancer Medicine 20/10/2022 Kerry Cullinan A precedent-setting agreement to permit an expensive cancer drug to be produced more affordably by generic manufacturers has been signed between the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and pharmaceutical company Novartis, enabling much wider access to a medicine that treats a rare blood cancer. Nilotinib is a twice-daily oral medication used to treat chronic myeloid leukaemia […] Continue reading -> Many Ways for Governments to Improve ‘Deeply Unhealthy’ Food Environment 20/10/2022 Megha Kaveri “The bottom line is that our food environment is deeply unhealthy. And unless we change that, millions of people will suffer from avoidable illness and die early from preventable death,” Dr Tom Frieden, CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, told the World Health Summit in Berlin. “Voluntary changes are much less likely to result in […] Continue reading -> Increased Self-Care Could Save $179b in Healthcare Costs 20/10/2022 Maayan Hoffman For “Nundy,” a mother of two living in South Africa’s Khayelitsha township, going to the doctor more than once a year is not an option. She would have to pay 50% of her total household income in a month in order to see a doctor, so she saves up all of her medical questions and […] Continue reading -> Lack of Cancer Detection and Treatment is Driving Deaths in Poorer Countries 19/10/2022 Kerry Cullinan Common cancers that can be treated successfully when they’re detected early – breast, cervical, colorectal and prostate – are causing high mortality in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) because of a lack of screening and treatment, Dr Cary Adams, CEO of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), told a press conference at the start […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO and Civil Society Raise Alarm Over Growing Threat of Drug-Resistant Fungi to Public Health 25/10/2022 Megha Kaveri & Elaine Ruth Fletcher The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised the alarm over drug-resistant fungi as it released its first-ever priority list of fungal pathogens at risk from antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Nineteen species of fungi have been identified by the global health agency as representing “the greatest threat to public health” due to their growing drug resistance. Meanwhile, […] Continue reading -> Hospitals in Haiti Facing Shutdown as Cholera Threat Escalates 21/10/2022 Stefan Anderson Hospitals in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince face the threat of shutting down if fuel supplies for diesel power generators and vital medical supplies aren’t made available soon, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned Friday. “We will not be able to operate our medical facilities for more than a few weeks if we do not have access […] Continue reading -> From Bedside to Boardroom – Parliamentarians Claim their Place in Global Health Debates 20/10/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher BERLIN – Nearly 20 years ago, Ricardo Baptista Leite began his work as a young medical doctor in an infectious disease ward in Portugal – an experience that changed his life. “I met patients who couldn’t make it to the hospital because they couldn’t afford public transportation,” he said. “I diagnosed patients infected with multi […] Continue reading -> Private-Public Drug Deal Enables Generic Production of Expensive Cancer Medicine 20/10/2022 Kerry Cullinan A precedent-setting agreement to permit an expensive cancer drug to be produced more affordably by generic manufacturers has been signed between the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and pharmaceutical company Novartis, enabling much wider access to a medicine that treats a rare blood cancer. Nilotinib is a twice-daily oral medication used to treat chronic myeloid leukaemia […] Continue reading -> Many Ways for Governments to Improve ‘Deeply Unhealthy’ Food Environment 20/10/2022 Megha Kaveri “The bottom line is that our food environment is deeply unhealthy. And unless we change that, millions of people will suffer from avoidable illness and die early from preventable death,” Dr Tom Frieden, CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, told the World Health Summit in Berlin. “Voluntary changes are much less likely to result in […] Continue reading -> Increased Self-Care Could Save $179b in Healthcare Costs 20/10/2022 Maayan Hoffman For “Nundy,” a mother of two living in South Africa’s Khayelitsha township, going to the doctor more than once a year is not an option. She would have to pay 50% of her total household income in a month in order to see a doctor, so she saves up all of her medical questions and […] Continue reading -> Lack of Cancer Detection and Treatment is Driving Deaths in Poorer Countries 19/10/2022 Kerry Cullinan Common cancers that can be treated successfully when they’re detected early – breast, cervical, colorectal and prostate – are causing high mortality in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) because of a lack of screening and treatment, Dr Cary Adams, CEO of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), told a press conference at the start […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Hospitals in Haiti Facing Shutdown as Cholera Threat Escalates 21/10/2022 Stefan Anderson Hospitals in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince face the threat of shutting down if fuel supplies for diesel power generators and vital medical supplies aren’t made available soon, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned Friday. “We will not be able to operate our medical facilities for more than a few weeks if we do not have access […] Continue reading -> From Bedside to Boardroom – Parliamentarians Claim their Place in Global Health Debates 20/10/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher BERLIN – Nearly 20 years ago, Ricardo Baptista Leite began his work as a young medical doctor in an infectious disease ward in Portugal – an experience that changed his life. “I met patients who couldn’t make it to the hospital because they couldn’t afford public transportation,” he said. “I diagnosed patients infected with multi […] Continue reading -> Private-Public Drug Deal Enables Generic Production of Expensive Cancer Medicine 20/10/2022 Kerry Cullinan A precedent-setting agreement to permit an expensive cancer drug to be produced more affordably by generic manufacturers has been signed between the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and pharmaceutical company Novartis, enabling much wider access to a medicine that treats a rare blood cancer. Nilotinib is a twice-daily oral medication used to treat chronic myeloid leukaemia […] Continue reading -> Many Ways for Governments to Improve ‘Deeply Unhealthy’ Food Environment 20/10/2022 Megha Kaveri “The bottom line is that our food environment is deeply unhealthy. And unless we change that, millions of people will suffer from avoidable illness and die early from preventable death,” Dr Tom Frieden, CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, told the World Health Summit in Berlin. “Voluntary changes are much less likely to result in […] Continue reading -> Increased Self-Care Could Save $179b in Healthcare Costs 20/10/2022 Maayan Hoffman For “Nundy,” a mother of two living in South Africa’s Khayelitsha township, going to the doctor more than once a year is not an option. She would have to pay 50% of her total household income in a month in order to see a doctor, so she saves up all of her medical questions and […] Continue reading -> Lack of Cancer Detection and Treatment is Driving Deaths in Poorer Countries 19/10/2022 Kerry Cullinan Common cancers that can be treated successfully when they’re detected early – breast, cervical, colorectal and prostate – are causing high mortality in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) because of a lack of screening and treatment, Dr Cary Adams, CEO of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), told a press conference at the start […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
From Bedside to Boardroom – Parliamentarians Claim their Place in Global Health Debates 20/10/2022 Elaine Ruth Fletcher BERLIN – Nearly 20 years ago, Ricardo Baptista Leite began his work as a young medical doctor in an infectious disease ward in Portugal – an experience that changed his life. “I met patients who couldn’t make it to the hospital because they couldn’t afford public transportation,” he said. “I diagnosed patients infected with multi […] Continue reading -> Private-Public Drug Deal Enables Generic Production of Expensive Cancer Medicine 20/10/2022 Kerry Cullinan A precedent-setting agreement to permit an expensive cancer drug to be produced more affordably by generic manufacturers has been signed between the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and pharmaceutical company Novartis, enabling much wider access to a medicine that treats a rare blood cancer. Nilotinib is a twice-daily oral medication used to treat chronic myeloid leukaemia […] Continue reading -> Many Ways for Governments to Improve ‘Deeply Unhealthy’ Food Environment 20/10/2022 Megha Kaveri “The bottom line is that our food environment is deeply unhealthy. And unless we change that, millions of people will suffer from avoidable illness and die early from preventable death,” Dr Tom Frieden, CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, told the World Health Summit in Berlin. “Voluntary changes are much less likely to result in […] Continue reading -> Increased Self-Care Could Save $179b in Healthcare Costs 20/10/2022 Maayan Hoffman For “Nundy,” a mother of two living in South Africa’s Khayelitsha township, going to the doctor more than once a year is not an option. She would have to pay 50% of her total household income in a month in order to see a doctor, so she saves up all of her medical questions and […] Continue reading -> Lack of Cancer Detection and Treatment is Driving Deaths in Poorer Countries 19/10/2022 Kerry Cullinan Common cancers that can be treated successfully when they’re detected early – breast, cervical, colorectal and prostate – are causing high mortality in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) because of a lack of screening and treatment, Dr Cary Adams, CEO of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), told a press conference at the start […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Private-Public Drug Deal Enables Generic Production of Expensive Cancer Medicine 20/10/2022 Kerry Cullinan A precedent-setting agreement to permit an expensive cancer drug to be produced more affordably by generic manufacturers has been signed between the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and pharmaceutical company Novartis, enabling much wider access to a medicine that treats a rare blood cancer. Nilotinib is a twice-daily oral medication used to treat chronic myeloid leukaemia […] Continue reading -> Many Ways for Governments to Improve ‘Deeply Unhealthy’ Food Environment 20/10/2022 Megha Kaveri “The bottom line is that our food environment is deeply unhealthy. And unless we change that, millions of people will suffer from avoidable illness and die early from preventable death,” Dr Tom Frieden, CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, told the World Health Summit in Berlin. “Voluntary changes are much less likely to result in […] Continue reading -> Increased Self-Care Could Save $179b in Healthcare Costs 20/10/2022 Maayan Hoffman For “Nundy,” a mother of two living in South Africa’s Khayelitsha township, going to the doctor more than once a year is not an option. She would have to pay 50% of her total household income in a month in order to see a doctor, so she saves up all of her medical questions and […] Continue reading -> Lack of Cancer Detection and Treatment is Driving Deaths in Poorer Countries 19/10/2022 Kerry Cullinan Common cancers that can be treated successfully when they’re detected early – breast, cervical, colorectal and prostate – are causing high mortality in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) because of a lack of screening and treatment, Dr Cary Adams, CEO of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), told a press conference at the start […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Many Ways for Governments to Improve ‘Deeply Unhealthy’ Food Environment 20/10/2022 Megha Kaveri “The bottom line is that our food environment is deeply unhealthy. And unless we change that, millions of people will suffer from avoidable illness and die early from preventable death,” Dr Tom Frieden, CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, told the World Health Summit in Berlin. “Voluntary changes are much less likely to result in […] Continue reading -> Increased Self-Care Could Save $179b in Healthcare Costs 20/10/2022 Maayan Hoffman For “Nundy,” a mother of two living in South Africa’s Khayelitsha township, going to the doctor more than once a year is not an option. She would have to pay 50% of her total household income in a month in order to see a doctor, so she saves up all of her medical questions and […] Continue reading -> Lack of Cancer Detection and Treatment is Driving Deaths in Poorer Countries 19/10/2022 Kerry Cullinan Common cancers that can be treated successfully when they’re detected early – breast, cervical, colorectal and prostate – are causing high mortality in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) because of a lack of screening and treatment, Dr Cary Adams, CEO of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), told a press conference at the start […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Increased Self-Care Could Save $179b in Healthcare Costs 20/10/2022 Maayan Hoffman For “Nundy,” a mother of two living in South Africa’s Khayelitsha township, going to the doctor more than once a year is not an option. She would have to pay 50% of her total household income in a month in order to see a doctor, so she saves up all of her medical questions and […] Continue reading -> Lack of Cancer Detection and Treatment is Driving Deaths in Poorer Countries 19/10/2022 Kerry Cullinan Common cancers that can be treated successfully when they’re detected early – breast, cervical, colorectal and prostate – are causing high mortality in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) because of a lack of screening and treatment, Dr Cary Adams, CEO of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), told a press conference at the start […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Lack of Cancer Detection and Treatment is Driving Deaths in Poorer Countries 19/10/2022 Kerry Cullinan Common cancers that can be treated successfully when they’re detected early – breast, cervical, colorectal and prostate – are causing high mortality in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) because of a lack of screening and treatment, Dr Cary Adams, CEO of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), told a press conference at the start […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts