(2022-07-23). Mobile app for improving heart health among African Americans shows promise, Mayo study finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mobile apps are popular tools for people looking to improve their health, but are they effective? They can be if the app is culturally tailored to the needs of its users. In a study published on Monday, July 18, in Circulation, Mayo Clinic researchers evaluated the effectiveness of a culturally relevant mobile app designed to improve heart health among African Americans in faith communities. The researchers found that people who participated in…
(2022-07-23). [Comment] Contraceptive mix and informed choice. thelancet.com Contraceptive use is associated with economic development, improved maternal and child health, education, and the empowerment of women and their family planning needs.1 These gains can also reduce poverty and slow population growth.2—3 Access to contraception supports the quest for gender equity4 and human rights,5 and represents a strategy to reduce health system and household costs.6 Measuring progress toward satisfying the need for family planning entails assessing the general contraceptive prevalence and unmet demand and the range and types of contraceptive procedures employed.
(2022-07-23). [Obituary] Colin Brian Blakemore. thelancet.com Neurobiologist and public intellectual of science. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK, on June 1, 1944 and died of motor neuron disease in Oxford, UK, on June 27, 2022 aged 78 years.
(2022-07-23). Science Saturday: Investigating zombie cells and skin aging. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org When she was just 8 years old, Saranya Wyles, M.D., Ph.D., would recite the stages of wound healing in Latin terms — rubor, tumor, calor, dolor and functio laesa — to her father at the dinner table. Decades later, that ingrained knowledge would be a cornerstone of her regenerative medicine research, education and practice at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Wyles is a Mayo Clinic dermatologist whose subspecialty is regenerative medicine. "Dermatology has a natural connection to regenerative…
(2022-07-23). Australian government prepares pro-business university "Accord" wsws.org The purpose of the "Accord" is to bring the education trade unions into a closer partnership with business chiefs, university managements and government representatives to further restructure universities to satisfy the demands of the corporate elite.
(2022-07-23). What you need to know about the BA.5 omicron variant. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Cases of COVID-19 are once again surging in the U.S., and the BA.5 omicron variant is fueling this latest wave, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Dr. Gregory Poland, head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group, says the BA.5 variant is hypercontagious and is contributing to increases in hospitalizations and ICU admissions. A new study published in Nature found the variant was four times more resistant to messenger RNA vaccines than earlier strains of…
(2022-07-23). More statements in defence of Zero-COVID advocate Dr David Berger. wsws.org The WSWS is continuing to receive statements supporting Dr. David Berger, a dedicated Zero-COVID advocate, who has been ordered by the Australia Health Practitioners Regulatory Authority to undertake a special "education program" or be deregistered.
(2022-07-23). Connecting Dots: Privatization of Community Colleges & Public Services With Non-profits. indybay.org The Schools and Labor Against Privatization SLAP had a day long educational conference on the privatization of education, the Port of Oakland and public services with non-profits. | This was part 2 of the meeting.
(2022-07-23). University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Mayo Clinic Health System enter student health services agreement. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org LA CROSSE, Wis. ‚Äï Starting this fall, the Student Health Center at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse will look a little different. A new health services agreement between Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse and University of Wisconsin-La Crosse will bring Mayo Clinic care directly to students. The agreement, signed Wednesday, July 20, at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, enhances student health services, with on-campus access to Mayo Clinic services and expertise. "Convenience and…
(2022-07-23). [Articles] Measuring contraceptive method mix, prevalence, and demand satisfied by age and marital status in 204 countries and territories, 1970—2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. thelancet.com The dominance of one contraceptive method in some locations raises the question of whether family planning policies should aim to expand method mix or invest in making existing methods more accessible. Lower rates of demand satisfied among women aged 15—24 years are also concerning because unintended pregnancies before age 25 years can forestall or eliminate education and employment opportunities that lead to social and economic empowerment. Policy makers should strive to tailor family planning programmes to the preferences of the groups with the most need, while maintaining the programmes used by existing…
(2022-07-23). Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia. wsws.org Indian public sector insurance workers hold national strike; Andhra Pradesh rural health workers demand minimum wage; Sri Lankan teachers and health workers protest fuel shortages; Australia: Sydney commuter rail workers to strike again…
(2022-07-22). It is dark, but I sing because the morning will come: The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2022). mronline.org 
In the chilly Brazilian winter of 2019, Renata Porto Bugni (deputy director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research), André Cardoso (coordinator of our office in Brazil), and I went to the Lula Livre ('Free Lula') camp in Curitiba, set up just across the road from the penitentiary where former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sat in a 15-square metre cell.
(2022-07-22). Les Miserables, Living and Dying on American Streets. scheerpost.com 
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch Statistics lie. Some lie more than others. The ones regarding unemployment lie brazenly and have done so for years, erasing the very existence of the long-term unemployed by simply deleting them from the regular tally. Statistics about homelessness lie. But they have an excuse: the homeless are hard to keep …
(2022-07-22). International Students In Ontario Are Fighting Wage Theft. popularresistance.org In Brampton, Ontario, a small team of young organizers has begun taking on the businesses that exploit them, one case at a time. | The Naujawan Support Network, a collective of international students and migrant workers from Punjab, India, has won back more than $200,000 Canadian ($154,000 U.S.) in stolen wages in just over a year. | "We started a year ago because we observed that there was an increase in suicides among international students," said Simran Dhunna, one of the founding members of NSN. "Every week we would see GoFundMes raising funds to cover the costs of sending the corpse of a young worker back ho…
(2022-07-22). International Students in Ontario Are Fighting Wage Theft—And Winning. scheerpost.com 
By Caitlyn Clark / Labor Notes In Brampton, Ontario, a small team of young organizers has begun taking on the businesses that exploit them, one case at a time. The Naujawan Support Network, a collective of international students and migrant workers from Punjab, India, has won back more than $200,000 Canadian ($154,000 U.S.) in stolen …
(2022-07-21). Gramsci In The Midst Of Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement. popularresistance.org Despite the persistent hegemony of capitalism and its ruling neoliberal ideology, various forms of resistance, social struggle, and proposals for an emancipated future continue to emerge. This is taking place in the face of economic, political, social, and environmental crises as well as a continuing lack of vision of how to overcome the health crisis. Our intellectuals must put their hearts and souls precisely into this orientation toward the future, one based on the possibility of change and hope for human emancipation, as we argued in Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research dossier no. 13, The New Intell…