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Swedish obstetricians and gynecologists are noticeably more emotionally stable and conscientious compared to the majority of the Swedish population. Based on the doctors’ personalities, their decision-making styles differ in emergency situations. The research study from Lund University is now published in Scientific Reports.

The more vividly a person imagines something, the more likely it is that they believe it’s real, finds a new study by University College London researchers.

Although families with immigrant mothers experienced higher rates of food insecurity and inability to pay rent during the pandemic than other groups, they reported less participation in economic impact payments (EIP) in the form of stimulus checks and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—two programs designed to provide stopgap financial support, according to a new study in JAMA Health Forum from researchers at the Dornsife School of Public Health and Children’s HealthWatch.

A new study by Northwestern University found that among youth who had entered juvenile detention, one-quarter of Black and Hispanic males were later injured or killed by firearms within 16 years.

Concern about the mental health of hospital professionals has been increasing in recent years, and when, in early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was declared and rapidly spread, there was a large increase in the overload of workers in Intensive Care Units (ICUs).

Columbia University neurologists are investigating a set of blood tests that, used in combination with memory tests, may help physicians correctly diagnose Alzheimer’s disease in low-resource environments, where 58% of people worldwide living with dementia reside.

A large-scale registry study in Finland has identified several factors associated with uptake of the first dose of COVID-19 vaccination. In particular, persons with low or no labor income and persons with mental health or substance abuse issues were less likely to vaccinate.

A new study has identified that fat molecules contribute to sleep disturbances in children diagnosed with autism, with results now published in Nature Medicine.

There are many different bird flu viruses. Besides the subtype H5N1, which has been spreading in the European wild bird population for several years and poses a threat to local poultry farms, there is also, for instance, subtype H7N9. This one caused poultry outbreaks in China from 2013 to 2017 and also infected humans who had close contact with live poultry. A total of 616 people in China were reported to have died from an infection with this subtype.

PHARMACEUTICAL Expert Jerome Kanyika has charged that the Zambia Medicines and Medical Supplies Agency-ZAMMSA- is going against the Public Procurement Act in seeking to single source Unified Procurement Authority -UPA- of Egypt for the supply and delivery of essential medicines.
The Ministry of Health and ZAMMSA are seeking to irregularly pay an Egyptian agency about 70 million to 120 million dollars for the supply and delivery of essential medicines as well as other medical supplies, without local suppliers.
But Mr. Kanyika has condemned this move saying it has an effect on the local pharmaceutical industry as many pharmacies are likely to shut down.
He has since challenged ZAMMSA to state clearly whether this will be a once off purchase or supply from Egypt will become Zambia’s norm.
And when contacted for a comment, ZAMMSA Director General Billy Mweetwa explains that this is a government to government procurement aimed at responding to emergency situations in the health sector and will be a once off procurement. – PHOENIX NEWS