NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with baby sleep consultant Alexis Dubief about her revised recommendations for parents following reporting on the dangers of inclined infant sleepers. Read and listen here… The post Baby Sleep Expert Shares Tips For Keeping Babies Safe While Sleeping appeared first on Healthier Environment Living Program.
The number of people who are infected with the new coronavirus that is spreading from China is dwarfed by those affected by a far more common respiratory illness: seasonal flu. Every year there are as many as 5 million severe flu cases worldwide and hundreds of thousands of deaths. By contrast, so far there have been about [...]
All personnel responding to outbreaks of Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs) need to have the basic knowledge and skills to mount an effective response. They need to understand what ARIs are, how they are transmitted, how to assess the risk of infection and to understand basic hygiene measures to protect themselves. This learning package consists of [...]
Much has been written about the novel coronavirus now known as covid-19 since the first cases were reported in December 2019. However, one aspect of the virus’s spread that I do not think has received adequate attention is the occupational protection that is being afforded to healthcare workers, which is a critical challenge in this [...]
Yale-affiliated scientist finds that even a few hours’ exposure to ambient ultrafine particles common in air pollution may potentially trigger a nonfatal heart attack. Myocardial infarction is a major form of cardiovascular disease worldwide. Ultrafine particles (UFP) are 100 nanometers or smaller in size. In urban areas, automobile emissions are the primary source of UFP. [...]
The man and woman are wearing blue hospital gowns and clear face shields. Dr James Sones and Dr Indu Srinivasan are in a room in the Division of Digestive Diseases at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. They are about to create something that has spread through medicine like, well, a shitstorm. Sones [...]
The addition of an antistaphylococcal beta-lactam to standard antibiotic therapy did not result in significant improvement for patients hospitalized with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia, an international team of researchers reported today in JAMA. The findings are from a randomized clinical trial conducted at 27 hospitals in four countries among patients hospitalized with MRSA bacteremia. The trial was [...]
The disease caused by the novel coronavirus has a name: Covid-19. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, announced the name Tuesday, giving a specific identifier to a disease that has been confirmed in more than 42,000 people and caused more than 1,000 deaths in China. There have been fewer than 400 [...]
In this Let’s Talk Exascale podcast, Kathy Yelick and Lenny Oliker from LBNL describe how the ExaBiome project is developing computational tools to analyze microbial species—bacteria or viruses that typically live in communities of hundreds of different species. CC0 License, Pixabay Read and listen here… The post Podcast: Supercomputing the Human Microbiome appeared first on Healthier Environment Living [...]
It’s not clear how patients are screened or treated in China’s makeshift wards, nor even how long they are to remain. As the new coronavirus continued to spread unabated within the city of Wuhan, China, government officials last week imposed draconian measures. Workers in protective gear were instructed to go to every home in the city, removing infected [...]
