Global Health, Fitness and Medical Issues

That walk to the bus stop, taking the stairs instead of the lift, using a manual lawnmower to cut the grass — how much benefit can we get from incidental exercise?

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Wellcome's work to shape a new super-discipline of mental health science, focusing on treatments for depression and anxiety and psychological treatments.

Five technologies, all previously underappreciated and underutilized, will help our nation move past the coronavirus crisis into a new, golden era of medicine.

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"Edgy and egalitarian, the Open Source Cookbook is an online repository for users to share and search for recipes. The cookbook was launched in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and makes the case that "food is unique in that it's inherently democratic," therefore featuring user submissions from professionals and hobbyists alike. A quick skim of the current recipe database is sure to make readers' mouths water. From chocolate babka to vegan chocolate mousse, cookies to cakes, pies to panna cotta, there is a baked good for everyone. Plenty of savory dishes and entrees are featured, too, so readers can create a full meal using the site. Many recipes are accompanied by pictures and short stories, truly inviting you into strangers' kitchens. More than 50 individuals have submitted recipes already, and readers interested in submitting a recipe of their own will find the instructions to do so at the link above. The database can be accessed on the web (using Google Slides) or downloaded as a PDF file."

Sorry dear readers, no recipe for the abstract art cake, above.-JL

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Keen to shake off 2020 by getting more active, but not interested in grinding away at the same old boring exercises? We've got you covered with these out-of-the-box ideas.

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Advancing nursing leadership, investing in nursing education, and providing support and resources for nurses around the world are key to addressing disease outbreaks and improving global public hea…

“Ineke Crezee’s book fills a vital gap in health interpreting, placing the extensive medical vocabulary needed within the context of interpreter’s practice and the issues they face in the very varied areas of health care. It is ideal for all training levels from short courses to postgraduate work.”
Uldis Ozolins, University of Western Sydney

Pratyush K. Kollepara, Alexander F. Siegenfeld, Nassim N. Taleb, Yaneer Bar-Yam
Face masks have been widely used as a protective measure against COVID-19. However, pre-pandemic experimental studies have produced mixed results regarding their effectiveness against respiratory viruses, leading to confusion over whether masks protect the wearer, or only those with whom the wearer interacts. Such confusion may have contributed to organizations such as the WHO and CDC initially not recommending that the general public wear masks. Here, we show that studies that did not find surgical masks to be effective were under-powered to such an extent that even if masks were 100% effective, the studies in question would still have been unlikely to find a statistically significant effect. Thus, such studies should not be interpreted as providing evidence against masks. We also provide a framework for understanding the effect of masks on the probability of infection for single and repeated exposures. The framework demonstrates that the impact of wearing a mask more frequently compounds super-linearly, as can the impact of both the susceptible and infected individual wearing a mask. This work shows that current research is consistent with recommendations for using masks at a population level in regions in which there is transmission of COVID-19, and that nonlinear effects and statistical considerations regarding the percentage of exposures for which the mask is worn must be taken into account when designing empirical studies and interpreting their results.

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Many Alzheimer’s disease discoveries, including biomarkers and potential therapeutic targets, were made possible by the NIA-supported Accelerating Medicines Partnership Alzheimer’s Disease (AMP-AD).

Media Contact: Beth McGroarty beth.mcgroarty@globalwellnessinstitute.org • +1.213.300.0107 Global Wellness Institute Finds Mental Wellness Is a $121 Billion Market First research report to define, analyze and size the global mental wellness economy identifies and measures the four sub-markets: 1) senses, spaces and sleep ($49.5 billion), 2) brain-boosting nutraceuticals & botanicals ($34.8 billion), 3) self-improvement ($33.6 billion), and 4) meditation and mindfulness ($2.9 billion) Palm Beach, FL –…

Aspiring doctors can unite the arts and patient care to creatively improve health care.

If you've never run before - or at least, not for awhile - where's the best place to start? Dr Kelly Sheerin is a senior lecturer at AUT's School of Sport and Recreation, and has some good tips to get you on track.

UV radiation can reflect off surfaces like sand or concrete, meaning shade doesn't always prevent sunburn.

Before lifts and moving footways – and long before people thought of counting steps on a device – traversing Sydney was a workout.

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