The children, who are all under the age of 6, all reportedly had symptoms of a respiratory illness in the week prior to developing symptoms of AFM. The Center for Disease Control (CDC ) said there have been 38 confirmed cases of AFM this year through the end of September. [Full Article...]
One bill applies to private health insurance and the other to Medicare. Mr. Trump said prescription drug prices are a bipartisan issue that Republicans and Democrats can agree upon. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar says the bills give patients the right to know about ways to pay the lowest price. In May, Trump laid out a series of plans to make pharmaceutical companies more compet... [Full Article...]
Healthcare Environmental Services (HES) has said it is working to reduce the volume of waste after reports that a huge backlog of medical and other kinds of matter had been allowed to build up. Last month, health and social care secretary Matt Hancock chaired a COBRA meeting and ordered £1 million to be earmarked to help up to those trusts affected. [Full Article...]
Underlining the treatment gap and the heavy economic toll exacted by mental illness, the report says the disorder will cost the global economy $16 trillion by 2030. Against this background, Wheeler said greater efforts must be made to "help young people build mental resilience". In honor of World Mental Health Day , Gaga and Adhanom are working together to draw attention to misconceptions about... [Full Article...]
The Minnesota Department of Health put out an alert last week, stating that six cases have been reported in children across that state over the past several weeks. Some people with AFM may be unable to urinate. Potential causes can be viruses, environmental toxins and genetic disorders, the CDC said. We've been reporting about the polio-like illness affecting two children here in Chicago , nine... [Full Article...]
Measures to help top British athletes deal with mental health issues are being introduced by UK Sport and the English Institute of Sport (EIS). In a new op-ed for the Guardian published on Tuesday, Gaga, along with World Health Organization director general Tedros Adhanom, urged readers to confront the shame and stigma that keeps people from speaking out about mental health. [Full Article...]
The study, published in the journal BMC Public Health , used data from nearly 10,000 young people taken from the annual Health Survey for England. Information is collected through an interview and, if the participants agree, a visit from a specially trained nurse. [Full Article...]
Brown has been working in Peru for more than 10 years and has conducted preliminary work on HPV vaccine acceptability in MSM. The vaccine protects against nine strains, including those most likely to cause cancers and genital warts. Questions have been raised at various times over the vaccine's safety, but most studies have found the vaccine to be safe , including a study conducted in wo... [Full Article...]