Health Heroines: Supporting Women and Striving for Universal Health Coverage

Thought LeadersMs. Anita Kouvahey-EkluDeputy Country DirectorIntegrate Health In this interview we speak to Ms. Anita Kouvahey-Eklu, a recent Heroines of Health award winner, about her work in addressing gender inequalities within healthcare.  Please can you introduce yourself and tell us what inspired your career in women's health? My name is Anita Kouvahey-Eklu, and I'm a medical provider, advocate, and activist […]

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Pfizer study says updated COVID boosters rev up protection

Pfizer’s updated COVID-19 booster significantly revved up adults’ virus-fighting antibodies, the company said Friday, releasing early findings from a rigorous study of the new shots. Booster doses tweaked to target the most common omicron strain rolled out in early September, and the Food and Drug Administration said the latest data should spur more Americans to get one—especially before another expected […]

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CPR training spans across India in advance of the World Restart a Heart Day

Only 2% of adults in India know how to perform CPR or cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The American Heart Association – the world's leading voluntary health organization devoted to longer, healthier, live for all – and the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) – a group of autonomous government public medical universities– are working together to train more than 150,000 students, […]

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Childhood Peanut Allergy Linked With Other Legume Allergies

French children with peanut allergy tend to have reactions to other legumes, including soy, lentil, pea, bean, lupin, and fenugreek, and those other allergies often lead to anaphylactic reactions, a retrospective study from France reports. “Among children allergic to peanut, at least two-thirds were sensitized to one other legume, and legume allergy was diagnosed in one-quarter of the sensitized patients,” […]

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percardia drug

With use of so-called high-intensity theater (HIT) lists, two surgical teams, working simultaneously, are able to perform a month’s worth of procedures in just 1 day. This is the outcome of an experiment at a London teaching hospital that is assessing ways to tackle the National Health Service (NHS) backlog of 6.6 million patients. The HIT lists were developed by […]

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