Efforts to Accelerate Tuberculosis Case Discovery in Tangerang City, Banten, Indonesia

Efforts to Accelerate Tuberculosis Case Discovery in Tangerang City, Banten, Indonesia

KOMPAS/PRIYOMBODO X-ray results of one of the residents in the Active Case Finding TB activity at the Larangan District office, Tangerang City, Banten, Thursday (5/1/2023). This screening activity is an effort to accelerate the discovery of TB cases in the community early considering that TB is an infectious disease. JAKARTA, KOMPAS — Tuberculosis is still … Read more

Urgent Call to Improve Spanish Vaccination Rates to Avoid Measles Outbreaks: Latest News on Measles Outbreaks in the UK and Romania

Urgent Call to Improve Spanish Vaccination Rates to Avoid Measles Outbreaks: Latest News on Measles Outbreaks in the UK and Romania

The outbreaks in the United Kingdom and Romania lead to demands to improve Spanish vaccination rates: above 95% in the first dose, lower in the second, to avoid the virus There is only one way to get rid of measles: the vaccine. “There is no other way to stop transmission,” says the spokesperson for the … Read more

Mumps, Measles and Rubella: Outbreaks Resurge in Europe Despite Global Vaccine Efforts

Mumps, Measles and Rubella: Outbreaks Resurge in Europe Despite Global Vaccine Efforts

The European authorities had warned of the risk posed by low vaccination coverage against measles and the worst omens have come true. The disease, easily preventable with two doses and which practically disappeared from the continent during confinements, has re-emerged in recent months, and has done so strongly in some areas. Three people – two … Read more

AI Model Developed to Accurately Diagnose and Predict Prognosis for Sepsis Patients

AI Model Developed to Accurately Diagnose and Predict Prognosis for Sepsis Patients

Research team led by Professor Kyung-Soo Jeong, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Yonsei University Severance Hospital Entered 2024.01.16 19:10 Views 124 Entered 2024.01.16 19:10 Modified 2024.01.16 15:34 Views 124 An artificial intelligence (AI) model has been developed that can accurately and quickly diagnose sepsis and even predict prognosis. [사진=클립아트코리아]An artificial intelligence (AI) model has been developed … Read more

2023-2024 School Calendar in Mexico: Megabridge, Easter Holidays, and No Class Days

2023-2024 School Calendar in Mexico: Megabridge, Easter Holidays, and No Class Days

Mexico City — The December holidays in Mexico’s preschool, primary and secondary schools are about to end. The students will return to the classrooms next Monday, January 8, according to the 2023-2024 School Calendar of the Ministry of Public Education (SEP). This month, classes will be suspended again on Friday, January 26, as teachers will … Read more

New Covid-19 Subvariant ‘JN.1’ Could Become the Dominant Strain Worldwide

New Covid-19 Subvariant ‘JN.1’ Could Become the Dominant Strain Worldwide

It’s been months since World Health Organization (WHO) declared the end of the international emergency due to covid-19. Even so, For a few weeks now, some variants of the disease have set off alarm bells and take extreme precautions around the world. It is the case of Eris (or EG.5.1, the omicron sublineage that circulates … Read more

Ministry of Health Warns of Escalating Cases of Neglected Infectious Diseases

Ministry of Health Warns of Escalating Cases of Neglected Infectious Diseases

KOMPAS/PRIYOMBODO A medical officer marks the arm of a resident undergoing a Mantoux test during the “Active Case Finding TB” activity at the Larangan District office, Tangerang City, Banten, Thursday (5/1/2023). JAKARTA, KOMPAS – During the Covid-19 pandemic, all attention was paid to treating various diseases. This makes efforts to control diseases other than Covid-19 … Read more

World Health: The spread of infectious diseases in Gaza and hospitals have become battlefields – Youm7

World Health: The spread of infectious diseases in Gaza and hospitals have become battlefields – Youm7

Written by Amal Allam Sunday, December 10, 2023 11:22 PM Dr. Ahmed Al-Mandhari, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean at the World Health Organization, said during the special session on health conditions in… Palestinian land Occupied: The WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region, which suffers from some of the worst humanitarian emergencies in the world, lives in … Read more

“The Best Plan for This Winter”: Spanish Association of Vaccinology Launches New Vaccination Campaign

“The Best Plan for This Winter”: Spanish Association of Vaccinology Launches New Vaccination Campaign

The Spanish Association of Vaccinology (AEV) has launched a campaign to insist on the importance of getting vaccinated now against winter respiratory infections, a message aimed at those over 60 years of age, risk groups and children between 6 and 59 months, who have not yet been vaccinated. Poster for the campaign of the Spanish … Read more