Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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The ability to drive a car, recognize friends and family in public and see words on your computer, cell phone or on a printed page are a few of the many activities in our daily lives that depend heavily on the normal function of the macula; the part of the eye that deals with fine focus. Dr. Kent W. Small, an ophthalmologist who practices in Glendale and Los Angeles, has made an exciting discovery on a gene that directly effects the vision loss for individuals with an eye...
As a further safety measure against the emerging Zika virus outbreak, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a revised guidance recommending universal testing of donated Whole Blood and blood components for Zika virus in the U.S. and its territories. "There is still much uncertainty regarding the nature and extent of Zika virus transmission," said Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, "At this time, the...
For the second time in just four days, firefighters responded to a group of overdose victims in Skid Row on Monday, August 22. Eighteen people were treated in the 400 block of E. Fifth Street in down town L.A. at about 10:30 a.m. Fourteen were transported to hospitals. Just last Friday, firefighters responded to s similar situation a few blocks away. Eighteen victims were also treated in that incident, where the presumed overdose was attributed to "spice." Spice is another...
SACRAMENTO – California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Director and State Public Health Officer Dr. Karen Smith urges recreational water users to avoid close contact with water bodies containing blue-green algae. Since June of this year, blue-green algae blooms have been identified in more than two dozen freshwater reservoirs, lakes and streams statewide. A list of current algal blooms is available online. The state recommends that people and pets avoid contact with a...
An estimated 1 in 13 children in the United States is affected by an allergy to foods like milk, eggs, peanuts, fish and shellfish-a figure that is steadily growing, for reasons that are not clear. At least one US Senator, Amy Klobacher, is calling for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Mylan, which has a virtual lock on sudden allergy relief through it's product, EpiPen. It is a pocket size medical device that is to allergy relief, what a defibrilator is for a heart...
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is warning consumers not to eat rock crabs caught in Half Moon Bay and bivalve shellfish or rock crabs caught in Monterey Bay, due to the detection of dangerous levels of domoic acid, a naturally occurring toxin. The warning is effective for crabs and bivalve shellfish caught in state waters south of Latitude 37° 11′ N. (near Pigeon Point) and north of Latitude 36° 35′ N (near Cypress Point in Monterey County). Symptoms of do...
Scallops sold to restaurants in California, Hawaii, and Nevada have been voluntarily recalled by Sea Port Products Corp after at least 206 people became sick with hepatitis A. The US Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are assisting the Hawaii Department of Health in an ongoing investigation. The cases were first reported by the state of Hawaii on August 17. Of those who contracted hepatitis A, 51 have been hospitalized. All of the...
Nurses at two of four California hospitals ratified their new contracts. St. Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley and Providence St. Joseph Health hospitals Queen of the Valley in Napa were able to make acceptable contracts with their nurses, achieving a 95 percent approval rate on the vote. According to the California Nurses Association, which represents 100,000 registered nurses statewide, two more hospitals are expected to have approved contracts today: Redwood Memorial Hosp...
A case of infection has been reported by Florida health authorities outside the one square mile Wynwood area of Miami, where the virus was thought to have been contained. It is not known if a mosquito travelled outside the zone, or if the virus itself is now infecting people outside Wynwood. There's no evidence of active spread of the Zika Virus, outside Wynwood. But one Miami woman with Zika who lives outside of Wynwood in Miami has been reported this week. Meanwhile, the US...
After two years with no reported cases, experts had hoped that the disease was gone from the African continent forever. Now, Nigeria joins Afghanistan and Pakistan on the short list of countries where polio is still actively infecting children. Despite difficult and dangerous social and geographic circumstances, the World Health Organization and other involved groups say efforts to contain the virus will be swift and aggressive. Millions of doses of vaccine, thousands of...
California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Director and State Health Officer Dr. Karen Smith today announced the first confirmed death in California due to West Nile virus (WNV). The deceased person was a senior citizen in Sacramento County. "West Nile virus can cause a deadly infection in humans, and the elderly are particularly susceptible, as this unfortunate fatality illustrates," said Dr. Smith. "West Nile virus activity in the state is increasing, so I urge...
SACRAMENTO – Due to an ongoing outbreak of meningococcal disease in Southern California, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is urging all gay and bisexual men and HIV-infected persons in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties be vaccinated against meningococcal disease. Since March, 22 cases of meningococcal disease have been confirmed in an outbreak in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, including several cases in the past week. Two other cases are c...
• In Mexico, the National Institute of Cancerology is the only institute that applies this technique • Cervical cancer can occur anytime after 19 years old Cervical cancer is a cancer arising from the cervix. It is due to the abnormal growth of cells that have the ability to invade or spread to other parts of the body. Early on, typically no symptoms are seen. Later symptoms may include abnormal vaginal bleeding, pelvic pain, or pain during sexual intercourse. While ble...
• Mexico´s Children's Hospital "Federico Gomez" presents the first research progress about problems of development from the brain function perspective • This alteration in neuronal ducts can be treated with medication and psychotherapy A study by researchers at Mexico´s Children's Hospital "Federico Gomez" (HIMFG by its initials in Spanish) announced that there are neurological disorders that may predispose to children to develop obesity, sleep disorders, short stature or at...
The Zika virus is causing devastating birth defects in countries with outbreaks of the virus. It also causes bad pregnancy outcomes, like miscarriage and stillbirth, and can cause serious neurologic problems as well. Zika is a virus primarily spread through mosquito bites, but unlike other mosquito-borne viruses such as dengue, it can also be spread through sex. Many people travel during the summer, whether to visit family and friends, to take a vacation, or for business....
WASHINGTON - Summer is here, which means millions of people hit the pools, beaches and lakes to cool off and take in the sun. The nation's emergency physicians strongly advise all parents and guardians to get their children familiar with water - specifically teaching them to swim safely as early as possible. "It only takes a few seconds and a few inches of water for a child to drown," said Dr. Jay Kaplan, president of the American College of Emergency Physicians. "While it's...
Florida officials reported the state's first case of a Zika-linked birth defect in a baby born to a Haitian woman infected in Haiti. The woman came to the United States to give birth, because she thought it would be better for the baby. The newborn has microcephaly, the most notorious defect caused by Zika, the Florida Department of Health said. Microcephaly is a smaller-than-normal head caused when the brain doesn't develop properly. There's no cure for it. "The mother, a...
Tucker was a macho Karate teacher, the kind of guy boys looked up to and wanted to be, especially when they found out what their dads really did for a living. And he was brought low, hospitalized by a brown recluse spider bite. Or so he thought. The truth is, it was probably a different member of the recluse family. Experts deny that the Brown Recluse spider, fairly common in Kansas and other southern plains states, exists at all in California. California does have Black...
As Californians consider a November measure that would completely legalize the use of Marijuana; the Canadian health ministry has issued a document warning of specific risks associated with the use of marijuana products for medical purposes. "When the product should not be used: under the age of 25, are allergic to any cannabinoid or to smoke, have serious liver, kidney, heart or lung disease, have a personal or family history of serious mental disorders such as...
Today, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced $24,127,657 in funding to support 65 health centers in California. The funding will increase access to integrated oral health care services and improve oral health outcomes for Health Center Program patients. Nationwide, today's announcement includes nearly $156 million in funding to support 420 health centers in 47 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. This funding enables health centers...
On the very day California's new legislation takes effect allowing "assisted suicide," a clinic has opened offering to help kill those who want the "right to die," according to Legalinsurrection.com. Dr. Lonny Shavelson, proprietor of the new clinic, is intended to help those 'patients' who are unable to find a doctor or a doctor who will participate in the new law. The legislation requires would-be suicides, required to have a terminal diagnosis with six months or less of...
· Pablo Kuri Morales, Mexico's Undersecretary of Health Prevention and Promotion, said that there have confirmed 272 cases in his country · He stressed that strict monitoring of pregnant women, infected with the virus, will remain until their babies' birth Before the next rainy season in Mexico, the Health Ministry of this country, will intensify actions to control mosquito Aedes aegypti, trasmissor vector of the zika, chikungunya and dengue virus, said Mexico's U...
There is obviously a lot of rear and trepidation in the United States about the progress of Zika Virus. Spread primarily by mosquitos (but also by humans through sexual and other contact), the disease causes some pregnant women to deliver infants with Microcephaly. The US has more screeen doors and windows, and also less standing water than some Latin American countries, which may make it less vulnerable to the Zika virus. Here is the report from Health Mexico: • In the l...
Mexico´s National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition "Salvador Zubiran" (INCMNSZ by its initials in Spanish) of the Health Ministry, is the only medical unit in Latin America to perform two successful upper limb transplants. Because of its high complexity, require the participation of a health professionals multidisciplinary team, from more than 15 specialities. At a press conference, was reported that Mexico is one of the 19 countries where it has been conducted...
On the day the legislation takes effect, a group opposing California's new assisted suicide law have filed a lawsuit seeking a restraining order against suicide facilitators, who may administer lethal drugs prescribed by physician to terminally ill patients. The lawsuit claims that the civil rights of the terminally ill are violated by the assisted suicide legislation under the Equal Protection clause. The lawsuit was filed by five physicians in Southern California and by the...
