Fri 15 July 2022: Virtual reality (VR) therapies may reduce phobias as a new trial suggests fresh hope for the estimated one in 12 people worldwide suffering from a fear of flying, needles, heights, spiders, and dogs. The results from the trial, published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, showed a 75 per cent reduction in phobia symptoms […]
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Mon 11 July 2022: The Department of Health and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) is collaborating with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to assess the risk for local transmission of Monkeypox. According to the Cabinet statement on Monday, this is done in line with the International Health Regulations (IHR), a legally binding agreement […]
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Fri 08 July 2022: The first report on the spread of monkeypox was released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday. According to the report, people affected by the outbreak fit a usual profile. According to statistics, practically all patients with monkeypox are men. The affected people are 37 years old on average. Three-fifths […]
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Thu 07 July 2022: The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced its plan to reconvene the Emergency Committee on monkeypox under the International Health Regulations as infections continue to soar globally. In June, the WHO’s Emergency Committee resolved by consensus the outbreak does not constitute a global public health emergency at this stage. However, addressing the […]
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Wed 06 July 2022: According to the World Health Organization, more than 6,000 cases of monkeypox have been documented from 58 different countries so far in the current outbreak. The WHO’s highest level of alert, the outbreak will be discussed at a meeting of the U.N. agency’s committee in the week commencing July 18 or […]
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Tue 05 July 2022: On Saturday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) acknowledges that problems with devices it approved to detect blood oxygen levels may be one of the reasons why doctors occasionally fail to identify serious cases of COVID-19 among people of color, Politico reports. “Pulse oximeters can overestimate blood oxygen in people […]
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Sat 02 July 2022: In light of the fact that cases of monkeypox there have tripled over the past two weeks, the World Health Organization called on Friday for “urgent” action to prevent the disease from spreading. “Today, I am intensifying my call for governments and civil society to scale up efforts … to prevent […]
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Wed 29 June 2022: Facebook and Instagram have taken down posts from users who advertised abortion drugs through mail. According to Motherboard, Facebook removed these posts on the same day that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which had legalized abortion in the US, and also temporarily banned some of those users because they […]
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Wed 29 June 2022: The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has confirmed the country’s second case of Monkeypox. The latest case was identified through laboratory testing. In a statement, the NICD said the case involves a 32-year-old male residing in the Western Cape. “He reports no recent travel history. Contact tracing has commenced in […]
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Tue 28 June 2022: The World Health Organization reported almost 3,400 confirmed monkeypox cases and one fatality as of last Wednesday, with the majority of them coming from Europe, according to an update issued on Monday. WHO said that since June 17, 1,310 new cases were reported to the agency, with eight new countries reporting monkeypox […]
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