Can Greater Health Focus at Glasgow Climate Conference Motivate Tougher Action on Global Warming? 16/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin & Elaine Ruth Fletcher This year’s 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), will be a critical moment of decision on climate policies, as the clock runs down before the more severe ravages of global warming become irreversible. Against the panoply of issues under debate, health is getting more attention from this year’s COP26 organisers as a […] Continue reading -> ‘Fractionation’ Proposed to Address Vaccine Shortages, as Pharma Makes Case for Boosters 13/08/2021 Kerry Cullinan As wealthy countries opt to give third COVID-19 vaccine booster doses to vulnerable citizens, some researchers have called instead for “fractional doses” to stretch the scarce resources. “If you have two million doses of vaccine, you can give that as two doses to one million people. But what about if you gave fractional doses?” asked […] Continue reading -> US Wildfire Smoke in May Have Contributed to Excess COVID Cases and Deaths in 2020 13/08/2021 Raisa Santos While the US was contending with the COVID-19 pandemic, huge wildfires that swept across the country in 2020 may have contributed to thousands of COVID cases and deaths, according to a US study on fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) air pollution from wildfires and COVID-19. The study, conducted by researchers at the Harvard Chan School […] Continue reading -> PAHO to Help Members Buy Vaccines as Delta Variant Drives COVID-19 Across Americas 12/08/2021 Raisa Santos As the Delta variant continues to fuel COVID-19 cases and deaths across the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is becoming more proactive in procuring vaccines for its members. PAHO announced this week that its Revolving Fund, which provides access to vaccines at affordable prices, is now open for requests from member states for […] Continue reading -> COVID-19 Weighs Heavily on Young People’s Mental Health 12/08/2021 Kerry Cullinan International Youth Day – Loneliness, depression, anxiety, substance abuse and job losses. These are some of the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic is weighing on children and young adults who have been isolated from friends, leisure activity and job opportunities by lockdowns and social distancing. Over 1.5 million children have also lost their parents […] Continue reading -> Glasgow Summit is the ‘Last Chance to Get Runaway Climate Change Under Control’ 10/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) is expected to be a pivotal moment in the fight against climate change, bringing leaders together in Glasgow to accelerate progress on global climate action. The event is “the world’s best last chance to get runaway climate change under control,” said the COP26 organisers […] Continue reading -> Flexible Community Care is Essential in Crisis – as Midwives Show During COVID-19 10/08/2021 Nisha Singh, Anteneh Asefa, Daniela Drandic, Alma Alicia Ochoa Moctezuma & Hagar Palgi-Hacker More than a year after the start of the global coronavirus pandemic, and the release of openDemocracy’s investigation into childbirth during COVID-19, we know that there have been too many violations of women’s pregnancy and childbirth rights during this crisis, including outright suspensions of services. Too often, the response of governments and health facilities to […] Continue reading -> Climate Scientists Issue ‘Red Alert’ for Humanity – and Health 09/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin Climate change is now an existential health problem overshadowing all others, say scientists in a major report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the world’s largest and most comprehensive assessment of the state of the planet. Unprecedented changes in the Earth’s climate have been recorded in every region and the world is […] Continue reading -> Family Planning is Still Taboo Among Nomadic Communities in Kashmir 09/08/2021 Raihana Maqbool Gulshana Bano does not remember her exact age when she got married – probably aged 16 or 17, she recalls. Now 27 years old and 10 years into her marriage, a frail and petite Bano has four children aged between the ages of four and nine with gaps of less than two years between each […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Could Become Leading Global Risk Factor for Health 06/08/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Rising global temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions could lead to 83 million excess temperature-related deaths by 2100, projects a new study conducted by a researcher at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. The study, published last week in Nature Communications, is one of the first to calculate the mortality impacts of climate change in the kinds […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
‘Fractionation’ Proposed to Address Vaccine Shortages, as Pharma Makes Case for Boosters 13/08/2021 Kerry Cullinan As wealthy countries opt to give third COVID-19 vaccine booster doses to vulnerable citizens, some researchers have called instead for “fractional doses” to stretch the scarce resources. “If you have two million doses of vaccine, you can give that as two doses to one million people. But what about if you gave fractional doses?” asked […] Continue reading -> US Wildfire Smoke in May Have Contributed to Excess COVID Cases and Deaths in 2020 13/08/2021 Raisa Santos While the US was contending with the COVID-19 pandemic, huge wildfires that swept across the country in 2020 may have contributed to thousands of COVID cases and deaths, according to a US study on fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) air pollution from wildfires and COVID-19. The study, conducted by researchers at the Harvard Chan School […] Continue reading -> PAHO to Help Members Buy Vaccines as Delta Variant Drives COVID-19 Across Americas 12/08/2021 Raisa Santos As the Delta variant continues to fuel COVID-19 cases and deaths across the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is becoming more proactive in procuring vaccines for its members. PAHO announced this week that its Revolving Fund, which provides access to vaccines at affordable prices, is now open for requests from member states for […] Continue reading -> COVID-19 Weighs Heavily on Young People’s Mental Health 12/08/2021 Kerry Cullinan International Youth Day – Loneliness, depression, anxiety, substance abuse and job losses. These are some of the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic is weighing on children and young adults who have been isolated from friends, leisure activity and job opportunities by lockdowns and social distancing. Over 1.5 million children have also lost their parents […] Continue reading -> Glasgow Summit is the ‘Last Chance to Get Runaway Climate Change Under Control’ 10/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) is expected to be a pivotal moment in the fight against climate change, bringing leaders together in Glasgow to accelerate progress on global climate action. The event is “the world’s best last chance to get runaway climate change under control,” said the COP26 organisers […] Continue reading -> Flexible Community Care is Essential in Crisis – as Midwives Show During COVID-19 10/08/2021 Nisha Singh, Anteneh Asefa, Daniela Drandic, Alma Alicia Ochoa Moctezuma & Hagar Palgi-Hacker More than a year after the start of the global coronavirus pandemic, and the release of openDemocracy’s investigation into childbirth during COVID-19, we know that there have been too many violations of women’s pregnancy and childbirth rights during this crisis, including outright suspensions of services. Too often, the response of governments and health facilities to […] Continue reading -> Climate Scientists Issue ‘Red Alert’ for Humanity – and Health 09/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin Climate change is now an existential health problem overshadowing all others, say scientists in a major report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the world’s largest and most comprehensive assessment of the state of the planet. Unprecedented changes in the Earth’s climate have been recorded in every region and the world is […] Continue reading -> Family Planning is Still Taboo Among Nomadic Communities in Kashmir 09/08/2021 Raihana Maqbool Gulshana Bano does not remember her exact age when she got married – probably aged 16 or 17, she recalls. Now 27 years old and 10 years into her marriage, a frail and petite Bano has four children aged between the ages of four and nine with gaps of less than two years between each […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Could Become Leading Global Risk Factor for Health 06/08/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Rising global temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions could lead to 83 million excess temperature-related deaths by 2100, projects a new study conducted by a researcher at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. The study, published last week in Nature Communications, is one of the first to calculate the mortality impacts of climate change in the kinds […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
US Wildfire Smoke in May Have Contributed to Excess COVID Cases and Deaths in 2020 13/08/2021 Raisa Santos While the US was contending with the COVID-19 pandemic, huge wildfires that swept across the country in 2020 may have contributed to thousands of COVID cases and deaths, according to a US study on fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) air pollution from wildfires and COVID-19. The study, conducted by researchers at the Harvard Chan School […] Continue reading -> PAHO to Help Members Buy Vaccines as Delta Variant Drives COVID-19 Across Americas 12/08/2021 Raisa Santos As the Delta variant continues to fuel COVID-19 cases and deaths across the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is becoming more proactive in procuring vaccines for its members. PAHO announced this week that its Revolving Fund, which provides access to vaccines at affordable prices, is now open for requests from member states for […] Continue reading -> COVID-19 Weighs Heavily on Young People’s Mental Health 12/08/2021 Kerry Cullinan International Youth Day – Loneliness, depression, anxiety, substance abuse and job losses. These are some of the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic is weighing on children and young adults who have been isolated from friends, leisure activity and job opportunities by lockdowns and social distancing. Over 1.5 million children have also lost their parents […] Continue reading -> Glasgow Summit is the ‘Last Chance to Get Runaway Climate Change Under Control’ 10/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) is expected to be a pivotal moment in the fight against climate change, bringing leaders together in Glasgow to accelerate progress on global climate action. The event is “the world’s best last chance to get runaway climate change under control,” said the COP26 organisers […] Continue reading -> Flexible Community Care is Essential in Crisis – as Midwives Show During COVID-19 10/08/2021 Nisha Singh, Anteneh Asefa, Daniela Drandic, Alma Alicia Ochoa Moctezuma & Hagar Palgi-Hacker More than a year after the start of the global coronavirus pandemic, and the release of openDemocracy’s investigation into childbirth during COVID-19, we know that there have been too many violations of women’s pregnancy and childbirth rights during this crisis, including outright suspensions of services. Too often, the response of governments and health facilities to […] Continue reading -> Climate Scientists Issue ‘Red Alert’ for Humanity – and Health 09/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin Climate change is now an existential health problem overshadowing all others, say scientists in a major report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the world’s largest and most comprehensive assessment of the state of the planet. Unprecedented changes in the Earth’s climate have been recorded in every region and the world is […] Continue reading -> Family Planning is Still Taboo Among Nomadic Communities in Kashmir 09/08/2021 Raihana Maqbool Gulshana Bano does not remember her exact age when she got married – probably aged 16 or 17, she recalls. Now 27 years old and 10 years into her marriage, a frail and petite Bano has four children aged between the ages of four and nine with gaps of less than two years between each […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Could Become Leading Global Risk Factor for Health 06/08/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Rising global temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions could lead to 83 million excess temperature-related deaths by 2100, projects a new study conducted by a researcher at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. The study, published last week in Nature Communications, is one of the first to calculate the mortality impacts of climate change in the kinds […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
PAHO to Help Members Buy Vaccines as Delta Variant Drives COVID-19 Across Americas 12/08/2021 Raisa Santos As the Delta variant continues to fuel COVID-19 cases and deaths across the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is becoming more proactive in procuring vaccines for its members. PAHO announced this week that its Revolving Fund, which provides access to vaccines at affordable prices, is now open for requests from member states for […] Continue reading -> COVID-19 Weighs Heavily on Young People’s Mental Health 12/08/2021 Kerry Cullinan International Youth Day – Loneliness, depression, anxiety, substance abuse and job losses. These are some of the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic is weighing on children and young adults who have been isolated from friends, leisure activity and job opportunities by lockdowns and social distancing. Over 1.5 million children have also lost their parents […] Continue reading -> Glasgow Summit is the ‘Last Chance to Get Runaway Climate Change Under Control’ 10/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) is expected to be a pivotal moment in the fight against climate change, bringing leaders together in Glasgow to accelerate progress on global climate action. The event is “the world’s best last chance to get runaway climate change under control,” said the COP26 organisers […] Continue reading -> Flexible Community Care is Essential in Crisis – as Midwives Show During COVID-19 10/08/2021 Nisha Singh, Anteneh Asefa, Daniela Drandic, Alma Alicia Ochoa Moctezuma & Hagar Palgi-Hacker More than a year after the start of the global coronavirus pandemic, and the release of openDemocracy’s investigation into childbirth during COVID-19, we know that there have been too many violations of women’s pregnancy and childbirth rights during this crisis, including outright suspensions of services. Too often, the response of governments and health facilities to […] Continue reading -> Climate Scientists Issue ‘Red Alert’ for Humanity – and Health 09/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin Climate change is now an existential health problem overshadowing all others, say scientists in a major report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the world’s largest and most comprehensive assessment of the state of the planet. Unprecedented changes in the Earth’s climate have been recorded in every region and the world is […] Continue reading -> Family Planning is Still Taboo Among Nomadic Communities in Kashmir 09/08/2021 Raihana Maqbool Gulshana Bano does not remember her exact age when she got married – probably aged 16 or 17, she recalls. Now 27 years old and 10 years into her marriage, a frail and petite Bano has four children aged between the ages of four and nine with gaps of less than two years between each […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Could Become Leading Global Risk Factor for Health 06/08/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Rising global temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions could lead to 83 million excess temperature-related deaths by 2100, projects a new study conducted by a researcher at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. The study, published last week in Nature Communications, is one of the first to calculate the mortality impacts of climate change in the kinds […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
COVID-19 Weighs Heavily on Young People’s Mental Health 12/08/2021 Kerry Cullinan International Youth Day – Loneliness, depression, anxiety, substance abuse and job losses. These are some of the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic is weighing on children and young adults who have been isolated from friends, leisure activity and job opportunities by lockdowns and social distancing. Over 1.5 million children have also lost their parents […] Continue reading -> Glasgow Summit is the ‘Last Chance to Get Runaway Climate Change Under Control’ 10/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) is expected to be a pivotal moment in the fight against climate change, bringing leaders together in Glasgow to accelerate progress on global climate action. The event is “the world’s best last chance to get runaway climate change under control,” said the COP26 organisers […] Continue reading -> Flexible Community Care is Essential in Crisis – as Midwives Show During COVID-19 10/08/2021 Nisha Singh, Anteneh Asefa, Daniela Drandic, Alma Alicia Ochoa Moctezuma & Hagar Palgi-Hacker More than a year after the start of the global coronavirus pandemic, and the release of openDemocracy’s investigation into childbirth during COVID-19, we know that there have been too many violations of women’s pregnancy and childbirth rights during this crisis, including outright suspensions of services. Too often, the response of governments and health facilities to […] Continue reading -> Climate Scientists Issue ‘Red Alert’ for Humanity – and Health 09/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin Climate change is now an existential health problem overshadowing all others, say scientists in a major report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the world’s largest and most comprehensive assessment of the state of the planet. Unprecedented changes in the Earth’s climate have been recorded in every region and the world is […] Continue reading -> Family Planning is Still Taboo Among Nomadic Communities in Kashmir 09/08/2021 Raihana Maqbool Gulshana Bano does not remember her exact age when she got married – probably aged 16 or 17, she recalls. Now 27 years old and 10 years into her marriage, a frail and petite Bano has four children aged between the ages of four and nine with gaps of less than two years between each […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Could Become Leading Global Risk Factor for Health 06/08/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Rising global temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions could lead to 83 million excess temperature-related deaths by 2100, projects a new study conducted by a researcher at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. The study, published last week in Nature Communications, is one of the first to calculate the mortality impacts of climate change in the kinds […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Glasgow Summit is the ‘Last Chance to Get Runaway Climate Change Under Control’ 10/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) is expected to be a pivotal moment in the fight against climate change, bringing leaders together in Glasgow to accelerate progress on global climate action. The event is “the world’s best last chance to get runaway climate change under control,” said the COP26 organisers […] Continue reading -> Flexible Community Care is Essential in Crisis – as Midwives Show During COVID-19 10/08/2021 Nisha Singh, Anteneh Asefa, Daniela Drandic, Alma Alicia Ochoa Moctezuma & Hagar Palgi-Hacker More than a year after the start of the global coronavirus pandemic, and the release of openDemocracy’s investigation into childbirth during COVID-19, we know that there have been too many violations of women’s pregnancy and childbirth rights during this crisis, including outright suspensions of services. Too often, the response of governments and health facilities to […] Continue reading -> Climate Scientists Issue ‘Red Alert’ for Humanity – and Health 09/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin Climate change is now an existential health problem overshadowing all others, say scientists in a major report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the world’s largest and most comprehensive assessment of the state of the planet. Unprecedented changes in the Earth’s climate have been recorded in every region and the world is […] Continue reading -> Family Planning is Still Taboo Among Nomadic Communities in Kashmir 09/08/2021 Raihana Maqbool Gulshana Bano does not remember her exact age when she got married – probably aged 16 or 17, she recalls. Now 27 years old and 10 years into her marriage, a frail and petite Bano has four children aged between the ages of four and nine with gaps of less than two years between each […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Could Become Leading Global Risk Factor for Health 06/08/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Rising global temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions could lead to 83 million excess temperature-related deaths by 2100, projects a new study conducted by a researcher at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. The study, published last week in Nature Communications, is one of the first to calculate the mortality impacts of climate change in the kinds […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Flexible Community Care is Essential in Crisis – as Midwives Show During COVID-19 10/08/2021 Nisha Singh, Anteneh Asefa, Daniela Drandic, Alma Alicia Ochoa Moctezuma & Hagar Palgi-Hacker More than a year after the start of the global coronavirus pandemic, and the release of openDemocracy’s investigation into childbirth during COVID-19, we know that there have been too many violations of women’s pregnancy and childbirth rights during this crisis, including outright suspensions of services. Too often, the response of governments and health facilities to […] Continue reading -> Climate Scientists Issue ‘Red Alert’ for Humanity – and Health 09/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin Climate change is now an existential health problem overshadowing all others, say scientists in a major report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the world’s largest and most comprehensive assessment of the state of the planet. Unprecedented changes in the Earth’s climate have been recorded in every region and the world is […] Continue reading -> Family Planning is Still Taboo Among Nomadic Communities in Kashmir 09/08/2021 Raihana Maqbool Gulshana Bano does not remember her exact age when she got married – probably aged 16 or 17, she recalls. Now 27 years old and 10 years into her marriage, a frail and petite Bano has four children aged between the ages of four and nine with gaps of less than two years between each […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Could Become Leading Global Risk Factor for Health 06/08/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Rising global temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions could lead to 83 million excess temperature-related deaths by 2100, projects a new study conducted by a researcher at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. The study, published last week in Nature Communications, is one of the first to calculate the mortality impacts of climate change in the kinds […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Climate Scientists Issue ‘Red Alert’ for Humanity – and Health 09/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin Climate change is now an existential health problem overshadowing all others, say scientists in a major report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the world’s largest and most comprehensive assessment of the state of the planet. Unprecedented changes in the Earth’s climate have been recorded in every region and the world is […] Continue reading -> Family Planning is Still Taboo Among Nomadic Communities in Kashmir 09/08/2021 Raihana Maqbool Gulshana Bano does not remember her exact age when she got married – probably aged 16 or 17, she recalls. Now 27 years old and 10 years into her marriage, a frail and petite Bano has four children aged between the ages of four and nine with gaps of less than two years between each […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Could Become Leading Global Risk Factor for Health 06/08/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Rising global temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions could lead to 83 million excess temperature-related deaths by 2100, projects a new study conducted by a researcher at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. The study, published last week in Nature Communications, is one of the first to calculate the mortality impacts of climate change in the kinds […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Family Planning is Still Taboo Among Nomadic Communities in Kashmir 09/08/2021 Raihana Maqbool Gulshana Bano does not remember her exact age when she got married – probably aged 16 or 17, she recalls. Now 27 years old and 10 years into her marriage, a frail and petite Bano has four children aged between the ages of four and nine with gaps of less than two years between each […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Could Become Leading Global Risk Factor for Health 06/08/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Rising global temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions could lead to 83 million excess temperature-related deaths by 2100, projects a new study conducted by a researcher at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. The study, published last week in Nature Communications, is one of the first to calculate the mortality impacts of climate change in the kinds […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Climate Change Could Become Leading Global Risk Factor for Health 06/08/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Rising global temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions could lead to 83 million excess temperature-related deaths by 2100, projects a new study conducted by a researcher at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. The study, published last week in Nature Communications, is one of the first to calculate the mortality impacts of climate change in the kinds […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts