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 E-Mail Very low birthweight infants often need blood transfusions to survive. A National Institutes of Health-funded study suggests that providing a higher threshold of red cells within accepted limits offers no advantage in survival or reduction in neurological impairment over a lower threshold. The research was conducted by Haresh Kirpalani, B.M., of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and colleagues and was funded by the NIHs Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Hea...

Dubai: Private schools in Dubai will open “as usual” Sunday onwards, in the same manner that was followed during the previous term, the Knowledge and Human Development (KHDA) tweeted on Wednesday. “Thanks for your messages — private schools in Dubai are not affected by the recent announcement & will be open as ‘usual’ next week,” KHDA tweeted. It follows today’s announcement that public and private schools in Abu Dhabi will have distance learning for the first two weeks of the s...

Economies must move not only from relief to recovery, but also to reinvention.  . Read more at straitstimes.com.

Africa has so far been spared the worst of the coronavirus pandemic in terms of cases and deaths but its economy has not been so lucky, especially the poorer, smaller countries dependent on a single resource or sector.

A common brain disorder called Chiari 1 malformation can result from variations in two genes involved in brain development, research finds. The study also reveals that children with unusually large heads are four times more likely to be diagnosed with Chiari 1 malformation than their peers with normal head circumference. The condition occurs when the lowest parts of the brain are found below the base of the skull. About one in 100 children has Chiari 1 malformation, but most of the time such ch...

email article Extremely small newborns tolerated a restrictive red blood cell transfusion strategy for anemia in the multicenter TOP trial. Around 2 years of age, infants had similar rates of either death or survival but with neurodevelopmental impairment (i.e., cognitive delay, cerebral palsy, hearing, or vision loss) whether they had been randomized to higher or lower hemoglobin thresholds for transfusion in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) shortly after birth (50.1% vs 49.8%, ad...

Posted The UNDP’s Human Development Index (HDI) is a major achievement. It has focused the world’s attention on the human aspects of development, highlighting and featuring not just economic gains but also schooling and education and life expectancy. In this, it was a hugely important corrective for a development community that tended to have a pure economic growth -focused agenda. Over the years the UNDP has also refined the index. Creating alternatives that alongside these co...

By City News Service Dec 30, 2020 LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The Archdiocese of Los Angeles announced today its Cardinal McIntyre Fund provided financial assistance to more than 350 families suffering financial loss during the COVID-19 pandemic. The money, totaling over $400,000, assisted families with emergency medical care, rent, utility bills and emergency shelter, according to an Archdiocese of Los Angeles official. “The coronavirus pandemic has hit families very hard. People who never worried ...

Nostradamus made his famous predictions in the mid-1500s. Here are several predictions from the French seer that may point to 2021.

December 29, 2020 CWN Editors Note: “I especially commend lawmakers’ efforts to ensure people have enough food to eat and a safe place to live (in some ways, more than in the CARES Act), to support workers and those who are out of work (although less than before), and to include some mixed status immigrant families in stimulus payments,” Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, said on December 28. “There i...