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NCDs are increasing alarmingly even in developing countries. Need to take participatory policies for prevent and control of NCDs.
31 July 2024 8,077 3 View
22 December, 2020; The Guardian Uğur Şahin, the CEO of BioNTech, the German biotechnology company behind the first Covid 19 vaccine, was asked at a press briefing when he believed the world...
22 December 2020 1,997 10 View
29 September 2020, NewScientist In Europe, the long-predicted second wave of the coronavirus pandemic is now well under way. Several countries are reporting more daily covid-19 cases than they...
12 October 2020 740 5 View
3 October, The Guardian Donald Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis is a reminder that the virus is an ongoing threat to the US that “can happen to anyone”, the former director of the US Centers for...
03 October 2020 6,393 12 View
All are busy with morbidity and mortality focusing only testing and treatment of COVID-19. Community awareness is still neglected in South Asian countries like India, Bangladesh etc. and the...
22 September 2020 9,132 6 View
More men than women may have contracted Covid-19 around the world, but experts have warned that the pandemic may set gender equality back by decades. Melinda Gates, the co-chair of the Bill and...
18 August 2020 1,981 24 View
14 August, CNN The path to a Covid-19 vaccine Scientists are hoping to deliver a vaccine that protects against Covid-19, and its transmission, by early 2021. In order to do that, the development...
14 August 2020 6,888 8 View
Dallas superintendent says starting school again is a balancing act 13 August, CNN Classes in the Dallas Independent School District were supposed to start next Monday, but they’ve been moved to...
13 August 2020 8,276 42 View
It’s easy to prescribe formula but difficult to do in the hard reality. More than 800 million children aren’t able to wash their hands at school: WHO and UNICEF report 13 August, CNN More than 800...
13 August 2020 534 9 View
America is not in a Covid-19 vaccine race with Russia, US health chief says US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Wednesday that coronavirus vaccine development is “not a race...
12 August 2020 3,831 10 View
Psychological fatigue with social distancing is emerging as a major challenge for curbing a pandemic now into its eighth month. That’s especially so among young adults who are less fearful of the...
07 August 2020 2,815 9 View
The novel coronavirus may suppress key immune cells, study finds From CNN's Maggie Fox, 7 August Covid-19 appears to suppress the function of important immune system cells, preventing the body...
07 August 2020 6,869 10 View
Covid-19 "pushed the limits of health systems" and left "no country untouched," WHO chief says From CNN's Naomi Thomas, 7 August Covid-19 has been “a tragic reminder to the world of the insecurity...
07 August 2020 1,688 7 View
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said at a Friday news conference he believes any country that eventually produces a viable Covid-19 vaccine needs to share it with the world. Whoever finds...
07 August 2020 2,138 3 View
Second COVID-19 wave twice as big as the first without effective test, trace, isolating strategy, says new modelling study Reopening schools fully in September without an effective test, trace...
06 August 2020 604 5 View
Obesity should be defined by a person's health - not just their weight, says a new Canadian clinical guideline. It also advises doctors to go beyond simply recommending diet and exercise. Instead,...
05 August 2020 1,845 25 View
4 August, CNN Authorities in Italy have found that only 2.5% of Italians, or 1,482,000 people, have Covid-19 antibodies despite it being one of the countries hardest hit by coronavirus in...
04 August 2020 2,927 20 View
July was started with nearly 10.6 M total cases and around 7 million cases increased in a month to make it nearly17.5 million global cases at the end of July, 2020. USA is the epicenter and Latin...
04 August 2020 6,815 10 View
CNN has learned that Russia intends to approve the world’s first coronavirus vaccine in less than two weeks, despite concerns about its safety, effectiveness and that the country has cut essential...
28 July 2020 4,327 92 View
Global cases are now more than 16.4 million and died nearly 660,000 worldwide from COVID-19. USA has nearly 4.3 million cases, Brazil tops 2.4 million and India has more than 1.4 million cases....
27 July 2020 6,007 24 View
The term single or nuclear family refers to a household consisting of a father, a mother and their children all in one household. A joint family is considered bigger compared to a nuclear family...
27 July 2020 6,703 9 View
The world war started in silence against the unseen enemy since the beginning of 2020. Just created black smokes disturbing global temperature and so many showdowns were completed all over the...
26 July 2020 4,687 7 View
Lots of confusion and controversy are there about the initial role of WHO. Dec 31: China alerts WHO to several pneumonia cases. Total of 27 suspected cases. Jan 23: Wuhan place under effective...
26 July 2020 9,202 11 View
Vaccinations and screenings for measles, tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases are down in the Corona pandemic. In recent decades, the world has made dramatic progress in lowering the number...
26 July 2020 2,729 5 View
Public health officials need to "stick with the science," even in a political atmosphere, Fauci says A pandemic may intensify the divisiveness that already exists in the country, but scientists...
25 July 2020 9,524 3 View
There are lots of confusion and controversy about the origin and transmission of coronavirus. Either men-made or biological whatever it is, COVID-19 pandemic is a disaster no doubt about...
25 July 2020 999 7 View
Global cases are now nearly 16 million and died more than 640,000 from COVID-19. USA has more than 4.2 million cases, Brazil tops 2.3 million and India has more than 1.3 million cases. Russia has...
25 July 2020 3,697 7 View
COVID-19 has unleashed an unprecedented crisis, impacting all segments of the population, all sectors of the economy, and all areas of the world. It has also exposed growing inequalities in our...
25 July 2020 3,063 15 View
The T cells, along with antibodies, are an integral part of the human immune response against viral infections due to their ability to directly target and kill infected cells. A Singapore study...
24 July 2020 2,476 7 View
The head of the Red Cross has warned in an interview with the AFP news agency that the economic damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic could prompt massive new migration. Jagan Chapagain, head...
24 July 2020 6,345 7 View
Global cases are now more than 15 million and died more than 630,000 from COVID-19. USA has more than 4 million cases, Brazil tops 2.2 million and India has more than 1.2 million cases. Russia has...
23 July 2020 4,871 7 View
Obesity puts people at risk for a whole host of conditions, including Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and sleep problems. But is obesity itself a disease? Doctors are divided on the issue....
23 July 2020 5,732 43 View
The coronavirus pandemic has already claimed over 600,000 lives across the world, with case numbers continuing to rise. Global cases are now more than 14.6 million and USA, Latin America and South...
20 July 2020 8,558 53 View
Sars-Cov-2, the official name of the virus that causes the disease Covid-19, and continues to blaze a path of destruction across the globe, is mutating. But, while scientists have spotted...
19 July 2020 7,701 13 View
COVID-19 pandemic causes health and economic crisis across the world. The world is divided again with different strategies and disparity is more prominent. Where do we want to see the world after...
14 July 2020 4,581 24 View
WHO reported more than 230,000 infections globally Sunday, a record for new infections reported in one day. The coronavirus pandemic has already claimed over half a million lives across the world,...
14 July 2020 5,172 14 View
As the number of coronavirus cases in India continues to rise, people have been urged to wear face masks. But there is no system to safely dispose of protective equipment and rubbish collectors...
14 July 2020 9,648 11 View
The coronavirus pandemic has caused an “unprecedented education emergency” with up to 9.7 million children affected by school closures at risk of never going back to class, the charity said. 13...
13 July 2020 4,705 7 View
We can predict many things and make projections on Corona crisis based on available data but unluckily, the quality of data and their source are not beyond doubt. The previous projections based on...
09 July 2020 7,996 1 View
The World Health Organization has acknowledged there is emerging evidence that the coronavirus can be spread by tiny particles suspended in the air. The airborne transmission could not be...
08 July 2020 5,958 12 View
A Spanish study has cast doubt on the feasibility of herd immunity as a way of tackling the coronavirus pandemic. The study of more than 60,000 people estimates that around just 5% of the Spanish...
07 July 2020 7,666 96 View
Zoonotic diseases - which jump from animals to humans - are increasing and will continue to do so without action to protect wildlife and preserve the environment, UN experts have warned. They...
07 July 2020 5,018 10 View
India now has the third highest number of coronavirus cases in the world On Monday, India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced 24,248 new coronavirus cases recorded in the past 24...
06 July 2020 957 0 View
We have seen the lack of preparedness to manage the emergency health crisis and almost locked everything other than Corona when it was out of control. It was almost same across the world and after...
05 July 2020 9,985 3 View
Australia has been a relative success story but an outbreak in Melbourne is at a "critical stage", experts say. Infections have surged in the past few weeks - there are now 482 active cases in the...
03 July 2020 1,469 5 View
Key findings of World Vision: As many as 30 million children’s lives are in danger from secondary health impacts: • 26 million+ children at greater risk of being exposed to other deadly diseases...
02 July 2020 5,126 3 View
Children in Europe are very unlikely to die from COVID-19, according to a cohort study of 25 countries published in the Lancet. Led by researchers from the UK's Great Ormond Street children's...
02 July 2020 2,316 1 View
The COVID-19 crisis threw schools into a lockdown and forcibly disrupted many assessment protocols. It’s impossible for most of the schools of third world countries to arrange routine examination...
02 July 2020 4,441 58 View
“Kids should be physically present in school this fall, pediatrics group says.” Children should be physically in school, for their own well-being and for the most effective learning, the American...
30 June 2020 6,640 8 View
Latin America is the current epicenter for COVID-19 with more than two million cases and Brazil has already lost its total control with collapsed economy. At least 7.8 million Brazilians lost...
30 June 2020 4,326 26 View
Corona pandemic is still roaring in the US when Europe is relatively more relaxed but careful in easing lockdown. The United States has long prided itself as the world's shining beacon. But its...
30 June 2020 9,904 24 View
“If an outbreak were to happen, it would be close to impossible to contain,” Syrian-American activist Leena Zahia said. She was speaking about the possibility of a Covid-19 epidemic in the refugee...
29 June 2020 8,551 35 View
With 1.94 billion people, South Asia is home to almost exactly one-quarter of the world’s population. The region, comprising eight countries — Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Bhutan, the Maldives,...
29 June 2020 9,654 3 View
It’s not only people’s anxiety or depression during the lockdown in Corona crisis, experts are now worried about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) of hospitalized patients. More than half a...
29 June 2020 1,069 8 View
The coronavirus pandemic is far from coming to an end any time soon, according to World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Tedros also said that Tuesday marks six...
29 June 2020 5,666 0 View
Former US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Tom Frieden said on Fox News that although the US is doing more testing and hospitals are better prepared, “this virus still has...
28 June 2020 3,116 10 View
Women of South Asian countries are mostly domestically bound since their childhood. They don’t get proper respect within the family and they have to just shake their hands in decision-making....
28 June 2020 6,222 0 View
Social distancing is the best defense against spreading coronavirus, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. “This pandemic is not over,” Dr. Robert...
25 June 2020 9,258 32 View
Pandemic is causing "unprecedented decline in global activity," according to the IMF Some key forecasts: China, which got a head start on the recovery, is expected to log growth of 1%, in part...
25 June 2020 3,718 35 View
“Women are in back seated in their family in south Asian countries due to extreme gender stratification and men take the opportunity to control them using their male dominant rural culture. Rural...
25 June 2020 6,889 14 View
The term ecosystem refers to the combined physical and biological components of an environment. These organisms form complex sets of relationships and function as a unit as they interact with...
25 June 2020 7,059 54 View
COVID-19 took its devastating form in Europe and USA since the last week March. Then after the April, EU countries could manage the spread but USA could not and already exposed with several peaks....
24 June 2020 7,541 15 View
Corona crisis among health workers is not only the risk for themselves, they could be the super spreader in the healthcare center. Extra protection and care should be given to save them from this...
24 June 2020 1,002 49 View
Climate change vulnerability is not an emerging issue but the importance of adaptation is always neglected. Inequity makes women’s health vulnerable from their birth and regional variation makes...
22 June 2020 7,335 5 View
Half of the world’s children, or approximately 1 billion children each year are affected by physical, sexual or psychological violence, suffering injuries, disabilities and death, because...
22 June 2020 6,821 18 View
Latin America Corona virus cases surpass 2 million. The number of Corona virus cases across Latin America has surpassed 2 million, according to Johns Hopkins University. These are the 10...
22 June 2020 8,953 0 View
Every few seconds, someone, somewhere, needs blood. Transfusion of blood and blood products helps save millions of lives every year. You can make a difference: Give Blood and make the world a...
22 June 2020 7,803 10 View
Some 1,370 papers have been published in medical journals about Covid-19 involving 6,722 authors but only 34% of these were female, according to research published last week by Ana-Catarina...
19 June 2020 8,069 3 View
According to Hair et al. not only parameters or observed items but also model complexity and number of constructs with communalities should be focused for sample size calculation. They mentioned...
19 June 2020 1,703 6 View
Yemen faces "unimaginable nightmare" with coronavirus From CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq in Atlanta Millions of Yemenis could be infected with coronavirus and up to 85,000 people could die as the...
19 June 2020 3,377 4 View
Satellite images released by NASA and the European Space Agency reveal the impact of China's Corona virus shutdown on pollution levels across the country. Production in many factories was halted...
18 June 2020 1,284 53 View
USA has tried best to control the spread. They reduced it already but even after the middle of June USA has to report >20,000 cases per day and lack of consistency is alarming actually. Europe...
18 June 2020 6,291 0 View
Regional variations of COVID-19 cases are observed not only among the countries but also within the country. Urban people are educated and their health behavior are reasonably well in comparison...
17 June 2020 510 6 View
The second wave of state shutdowns could be more damaging than the first. "Because of quarantine fatigue, because of the economic effects of quarantine, another round of shutdowns might have even...
17 June 2020 361 20 View
Family planning is an issue of couple and women should take the fertility decision to get their desired outcomes according to ICPD, 1994. Unluckily, it's not maintained in rural areas of Indian...
17 June 2020 5,863 5 View
Latin America and South Asia are now current hot spots for novel Corona virus. Centralized oxygen delivery system and ventilators are required in severe cases. Urban-rural disparity in health care...
16 June 2020 4,005 24 View
India has nearly 350,000 COVID-19 cases and almost 10,000 deaths. Pakistan has nearly 150,000 cases and Bangladesh has more than 90,000 cases. South Asian countries have to trade off between the...
16 June 2020 1,830 16 View
Example: When we conduct a study based on knowledge attitude and practice or behavior (KAP or KAB) model, we should follow the variables positions for understanding direct and indirect links with...
16 June 2020 307 0 View
Children are domestically bound for more than 2-3 months under the lockdown system. They are missing their friends and schools. They are in anxiety after watching so many deaths in their...
16 June 2020 5,034 33 View
Every year, an estimated 21 million girls aged 15–19 years in developing regions become pregnant and approximately 12 million of them give birth. At least 777,000 births occur to adolescent...
16 June 2020 9,722 12 View
Families are the basic, foundational social units in all human communities around the world. Parents are their child’s first teachers. More than day care or other caregivers, most of their...
15 June 2020 8,181 15 View
Feminism is a movement and process of advancing women's rights as they were once viewed lower class citizen. Women's empowerment is part of the process of advancing the rights of women.
15 June 2020 6,638 4 View
The prevalence of depression among older adults in Asia is increasing day by day. As the older population continues to rise, the number of older adults with depression is expected to increase.
15 June 2020 227 19 View
The delay in getting children back to schools is not only a mental pressure but also children are deprived of playing. They are busy at home with digital connections only. They are in anxiety and...
14 June 2020 4,440 16 View
When it started from Wuhan we did not hear too much about reinfection. Then we found few reports from South Korea, Japan, USA and many other states too. What might be the factors related to...
13 June 2020 1,493 10 View
Corona virus pandemic “accelerating” in Africa, World Health Organization says The number of Covid-19 cases in Africa has doubled in less than 20 days and the World Health Organization (WHO) is...
12 June 2020 9,986 6 View
Brazil's big cities start to reopen, fueling fears of another deadly Corona virus wave (June 11, CNN) Post lockdown party infects 180 in India (June 11, BBC).
12 June 2020 6,004 60 View
According BBC reporter, some 180 people were infected in one central Indian city (Nagpur) with Corona virus from a party arranged for enjoying for withdrawal of lockdown. 16 from one single family...
11 June 2020 5,794 3 View
Women particularly in Africa, South Asia and Middle East countries are still in less empowerment. They are just listener and don’t take the family decisions. You can see some parliament members...
11 June 2020 9,864 0 View
Smokers are not always illiterate even the highly educated people smoke often. During Corona every day we are talking about self-protection and avoid gathering. Unluckily, not only in low and...
11 June 2020 3,625 96 View
Participatory action research (PAR) differs from most other approaches to public health research because it is based on reflection, data collection, and action that aims to improve health and...
11 June 2020 1,849 0 View
Global economy will take at least 2 years to recover from Corona virus, says economic body (June 10, CNN) All the sectors more or less affected by COVID-19. All the goals of SDGs will be...
10 June 2020 1,463 28 View
Sweden is accelerating its review into the success of its Corona virus strategy, which controversially did not involve a lockdown and kept many businesses open. Sweden has nearly 46,000 confirmed...
10 June 2020 3,190 6 View
Global cases top 7 M and died > 0.4 M people worldwide. Infected more than 2 M in US and died > 0.1 M already. USA’s corona deaths top the loss of US lives in Vietnam war on 29th April....
09 June 2020 4,332 12 View
Bangladesh is over populated with more than 160 million people and population density is so high. We have nearly 70,000 cases and deaths less than 1000 so far. We can detect 2500 to 2800 cases...
09 June 2020 227 7 View
Sometimes after the confirmatory factor analysis few latent have only 1 or 2 indicators left after goodness of fit. Is it accepted or authentic to run the model in this condition? All the latent...
09 June 2020 5,469 0 View
24 Dec 2020, CNN Michael Worobey, a biologist at the University of Arizona, has seen more than 100,000 different strains of the virus that causes Covid-19. But when he saw the new variant from...
01 January 1970 6,486 3 View
It started with just above 3 million cases at the beginning of May and end the of the month it passed 6 million globally. USA & Europe at last have shown success to control the spread of...
01 January 1970 7,875 6 View
