UNSW researchers say implementation of new fall prevention strategies will have real impact on lives
Researchers from the George Institute for Global Health and UNSW Medicine & Health’s School of Population Health say recommendations in a new technical report from the World Health Organisation (WHO)– released this week – will reduce suffering and loss that result from falls. The report, called Step safely: Strategies for preventing and managing falls across the life-course, urges governments, health professionals and practitioners to take urgent action to implement the recommendations.
Professor Rebecca Ivers, Head of the UNSW School of Population Health and Founding Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre (CC) for Injury Prevention and Trauma Care, was an executive editor of Step safely and co-authored the evidence synthesis that informed the report. She said falls prevention couldn’t be tackled as a one-off health issue or in silos, instead requiring a life-course approa
How India’s Vaccine Drive Crumbled and Left a Country in Chaos
Bloomberg 8 hrs ago Bibhudatta Pradhan, Archana Chaudhary and Sudhi Ranjan Sen
(Bloomberg) When India launched its Covid-19 vaccination drive in mid-January, the chances of success looked high: It could produce more shots than any country in the world and had decades of experience inoculating pregnant women and babies in rural areas.
“Our preparation has been such that vaccine is fast reaching every corner of the country,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Jan. 22. “On the world’s biggest need today, we are completely self-reliant. Not just that, India is also helping out many countries with vaccines.”
Apr 29, 2021
MELBOURNE – On an evening in the Southern Hemisphere’s late spring that was still cold enough for a jacket, Julie Arblaster joined about 100 other choral singers at the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra rehearsal studio to practice a new piece of music. Its name was “Fire of the Spirit.”
It celebrated a female mystic from the 12th century whose words might have been spoken by environmental activist Greta Thunberg in the 21st: “The Earth sustains humanity. It must not be injured; it must not be destroyed.”
Arblaster, an Australian climatologist, had just co-authored a paper about a weakening Antarctic polar vortex. She knew it would combine with a worrying set of conditions that can occur in the waters surrounding her vast country.
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Recent White House energy attack similar to Havana Syndrome symptoms
The Pentagon and other agencies investigating the events have yet to discover or release the details, but the idea of an attack going down so close to the White House is concerning, not least of which for familiar, Sept.-11 reasons.
The Senate and House Armed Services Committees were briefed by Defense officials earlier in April including the event that may have happened near the White House. The recent incident near the President s home went down near the Ellipse which is a giant oval lawn just south of the White House where the energy attack made one National Security Council official sick, according to several current and former U.S. officials testimony to