.World Health Organization (WHO) webinar on the public health risk of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) in dairy cattle. Organized by WHO Information Network for Epidemics (who.int/teams/epi-win). To be held on 6 May 2024 from 13:00 Central European Time.

who.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Individual country profiles from the Global Status Report on #RoadSafety 2023 now available online. See where your country stands in terms of burden, roads, vehicles, behaviours, #emergencycare and more: bit.ly/3GHJgZk #RethinkMobility

So many countries resorted to under-testing, undercounting and data suppression as a way of dealing with the COVID pandemic

⁦Max Roser⁩ and team ⁦Our World in Data⁩ offer best practices for government agencies thelancet.com/journals/lanpu…

Underscores the importance of collecting & using sex disaggregated health data. With current global threats to health, this needs to be tracked, in order to inform appropriate policies. Ministry of Health ICMR World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Organization (WHO)SEARO NITI Aayog

Very worrying, will impact health, productivity & agriculture. Need to come up with solutions esp to protect those who are most vulnerable. City planning needs major change - less concrete & glass, more blue-green spaces, affordable cooling technologies - & more research

A study in more than 3,000 US counties, with 315 million residents, has suggested that air pollution is linked with stress and depression, putting under-65-year-olds at increased risk of dying from cardiovascular diseases. news-medical.net/news/20240426/…

A thought provoking and well researched article on why Africa is facing an uphill battle to make its own vaccines even when the disease burden is very high and new technology exist for it. telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

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There is a huge outbreak of infectious hepatitis from a single village in Kerala. Multiple hospitals are dealing with many patients, young and old, coming in with jaundice and hepatitis due to Hepatitis A virus infection.

My Unit is also treating…

Whole of Asia is reeling under a heat wave, threatening lives & livelihoods. Both #climate adaptation & mitigation are urgently needed, especially to protect the most vulnerable in each country. Ministry of Health MoEF&CC NITI Aayog UN Climate Change World Health Organization South-East Asia World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific

Yes dear Danielle Nierenberg, Food Tank. Our global food system is currently too dependent on just a small number of major crops. A mere 15 crops provide 90% of our food energy intake.
This needs to change, as it is neither good for our health nor sustainable for our planet.

A previously overlooked type of immune cell allows SARS-CoV-2 to proliferate, Stanford Medicine scientists have found. The discovery has important implications for preventing severe COVID-19. stan.md/3xraRML #COVIDResearch #ImmuneSystem #SARSCoV2

A favourable environment (with the right policies) that promotes a healthy lifestyle (clean air & water, nutritious diet, physical activity, no alcohol or tobacco) is the best way to achieve a longer, healthier lifespan

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🔹A lot more research is needed to understand the viral evolution.

Not only how the virus is evolving in birds, cows, & cats but also in other mammals:
nature.com/articles/s4200…

Let’s #InvestInHealth & #InvestInPeople for climate resilience and a #LivablePlanet .

The impacts of climate change—diseases, extreme weather, more conflict & food insecurity— severely threaten people’s health.

Learn more about #ClimateAction in health: wrld.bg/xxB750R9BXJ

🤷‍♂️ Are you interested in climate and health but do not know where to start?

👀 The World Health Organization (WHO) has just released a new FREE e-learning course on climate and health

🥇First pilot module released with more to be released throughout 2024

👉Sign up here: web-staging.lxp.academy.who.int/coursewares/co…

It's starting to look like pasteurization inactivates #H5N1 #birdflu viruses in milk. But people who drink raw milk are playing with fire right now. statnews.com/2024/04/29/bir…

The first randomized trial of medical #AI to show it saves lives
ECG-AI alert in 16,000 hospitalized patients
31% reduction of mortality (absolute 7 per 100 patients) in pre-specified high-risk group
nature.com/articles/s4159…
Nature Medicine

What a cool idea!

Do you know which country and clinical specialty sees the largest number of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) with AI?

A new review reports that between 2018 and 2023, USA (31%) and China (30%) conducted the most no of RCTs with AI.

A significant majority of the trials were…

Emissions of substances that deplete the ozone layer have fallen by more than 99% since 1989.

Today's Data Insight by my colleague Esteban Ortiz-Ospina.

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