Tag: Tuberculosis
Copenhagen closer to Utopia with paint banks
Copenhagen doesn’t have food banks… it has paint banks! That’s right, the welfare state tends to be so good in these parts that they’ve gone from food… to acrylics. ‘Paint It Forward’, a relatively new initiative in Copenhagen, helps to distribute paint, which would otherwise be burnt, to good causes and to those who need […]
Museums Round-Up: Countdown begins, engines fired up, for opening of new Cold War museum
Ten, nine, eight, seven … it’s the lift-off sequence we all once associated with launching lunar modules, but today, unfortunately, it’s more likely some kind of missile – to cause needless human destruction or kill James Bond. It is fittingly reproduced here because we now have only ten days until the opening of Cold War […]
Step out of Liz Truss into lettuce
With Britain’s Conservative Party in a state of chaos, a leafy vegetable rose in popularity by surviving Liz Truss’s premiership, writes Dr. Binoy Battlefield. British politics has revealed hidden depths, each sought as each prime minister succumbs. The announcement of Liz Truss her resignation came after only 45 days in office. In terms of duration, […]
The most beautiful island monasteries in Russia
During the tsarist period, they were major religious centers and pilgrimages. During the Soviet era, they were converted into prisons, military schools and homes for people with disabilities. Valaam Monastery Kremlin.ru One of Russia’s most famous monasteries is located on the islands in the Valaam archipelago in the northern part of Lake Ladoga. According to […]
Authoritarian leaders slaughter covid-19 responses, leading to deaths
The World Health Organization (WHO) last week updated its report on redundant deaths from covid-19which highlights an extraordinary correlation between deaths and authoritarian leaders. It also highlights how well Australia handled covid-19 in both 2020 and 2021, although the deaths in covid-19 2022 are now increasing and significantly exceeding the deaths in 2020 and 2021. […]
Vaccines against Covidia and other diseases are offered to those arriving in Ukraine
Finland has reserved covid-19 vaccines for asylum seekers arriving from Ukraine, he says Mia KontioChief Expert of the Department of Health and Welfare (THL). Those who move to Finland also receive other vaccines included in the national vaccination program, he explains. "Of course. Under normal circumstances, asylum seekers are entitled to receive vaccines under the […]
UN-Habitat inaugurates restored facilities damaged in the port blasts in Beirut
BEIRUT, March 3 (Xinhua) – The United Nations Human Resources Program (UN-Habitat) on Thursday inaugurated restored facilities and neighborhoods damaged in the 2020 Beirut explosions, the National News Agency reported. The National HIV and Tuberculosis Center in Karatina, as well as a public park and sidewalks in the northeastern neighborhood, were restored with the support […]
COVID-19 is not the last pandemic humanity will face, warns the UN chief executive
“COVID19 is not the last pandemic that humanity is facing. In responding to this health crisis, we need to prepare for the next one. Let this international epidemic preparedness day give it the focus, attention and investment it deserves,” UN Secretary-General Guterres said in a tweet. For the first time, International Epidemic Preparedness Day was […]
More than 3.3 million people lost due to COVID this year, 2022 is the year we end the pandemic: WHO chief
“2022 must also be a year in which all countries invest on this scale to prevent a future disaster and accelerate efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a news conference on Monday (local time), emphasizing that “2022 is the year we end the pandemic.” “This means investing […]
New research is moving closer to harnessing viruses to fight bacteria and reduce the use of antibiotics
More and more infections, including pneumonia, tuberculosis, gonorrhea and salmonellosis, are developing antibiotic resistance, meaning they are more difficult to treat, increasing mortality, prolonging hospital stay and higher costs. Phage therapy uses viruses that are harmless to humans (known as phage) to kill bacteria. Phage therapy can be used in combination with antibiotics to more […]
COVID-19 pandemic pushes more than half a billion into extreme poverty: UN report
The findings were unveiled on International Public Health Day and highlight the devastating impact COVID-19 has on people’s ability to access and pay for health care. In a message celebrating the day, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres He said that as the third year of the pandemic approaches rapidly, “we urgently need to strengthen our […]
The study has found a new group of antibacterial molecules
Stockholm [Sweden], 19 November (ANI): Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, Umeå University and the University of Bonn have identified a new group of molecules that have an antibacterial effect against many antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The discovery could help develop new, effective antibiotics with few side effects. The results of the study have been published in the scientific […]
HUS Boss: Mandatory Covid vaccines for healthcare workers are justified
The distribution of Covid vaccines in Finland has slowed, and this week there were still about 730,000 people over the age of 12 who have not yet sought beating. Part of the non-vaccinated work in the field of healthcare provided by the Director of Diagnostic Services of the Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District (HUS), Lasse […]
Danish corona treatment is approved for trials on humans
A new treatment for covid-19, developed by Danish researchers, has now been approved for the first clinical trials in humans. It writes Rigshospitalet in a press release. The treatment takes place by inhaling a mild acid solution that helps the immune system fight respiratory infections. – Although several vaccine offers are now in use against […]
FACTS: Denmark has 300-400 cases of tuberculosis a year
* Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that primarily affects the lungs, but it can also attack other organs. * Tuberculosis is transmitted via small water particles from the lungs when the infected person coughs, sneezes or speaks. The bacteria can be inhaled by others who are close to the patient. * In Denmark, there are […]
Study recommends that prison inmates be screened for tuberculosis
There is a need for a more systematic screening in Denmark for tuberculosis, concludes a new analysis from Aarhus University. Every year, there are between 300 and 400 cases of the infectious disease in Denmark. If we are to eradicate the infection, according to the study, prison inmates, drug addicts and the socially exposed to […]
Dalle Valle became his destiny
On Monday 22 March, the owner of the Harald Nyborg Group, Kurt Daell, turns 80. Kurt Daell, together with his sons Erling and Njal Daell, was number 30 on Berlingske’s list of the 100 richest in Denmark in 2020 with a total fortune of 4.4 billion kroner. The three together own the group, which consists […]
The Restoration Act: How Finland restored the ancient remains of the Indians, which were taken over by a Swedish scientist more than a century later
The story began when Gustaf Nordenskiölda young Swedish geologist and a researcher of Finnish-Swedish origin arrived in the Mesa Verde area in search of significant cultural history and medicine for tuberculosis. Nordenskiöld possibly made the first scientific excavations in the area. His key research and documentation, particularly on the rock dwellings in Mesa Verde, proved […]
The survival rate of lung cancer is worse in Finland than in the other Nordic countries
According to a recent study comparing Nordic statistics, lung cancer treatment results are worse in Finland than in other Nordic countries. The study compared a million men and a million women. In Finland, about 13 per cent of men and 19 per cent of women live five years after diagnosis. The corresponding figures are 19 […]
Relatives question the care at Vipeholm
In connection with Ekot’s and P1 Dokumentär’s review of Vipeholm, relatives of inmates now take part in medical records about their relatives, which makes them wonder what care their relatives actually received. Vipeholm was a state institution that received thousands of people from the mid-thirties, people who at that time were called uneducable and insane. […]
Italy’s Salvini is now on trial
A lawsuit against Italy’s former interior minister Matteo Salvini is set to begin today. Prosecutors in Sicily accuse the far-right politician of illegally detaining migrants at sea and of abuse of power. The Senate voted against granting immunity to Salvini, but the immigration-critical right-wing parties show their support by organizing demonstrations in Catania today. Even […]
100-year-old vaccine may spare the elderly corona
Once upon a time, children in Denmark were calmette-vaccinated against tuberculosis. The vaccine was given in 1st or 2nd grade, and many remember the wound and the subsequent scar on the upper arm or shoulder that the sting left behind. Now the vaccine with the official name Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is returning, when 1900 citizens […]
