Hong Kong CNN — China has reported its first deaths of Covid-19 patients in nearly six months as the country struggles to contain a surge in cases across multiple cities that’s testing the limits of its tough zero-Covid strategy. On Monday, China’s National Health Commission reported two deaths of Covid-19 patients in Beijing for Sunday, … Read more
Editor’s Note: Matthew Bossons is managing editor of the Shanghai-based online publication Radii. He has lived in China since 2014. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN. Shanghai CNN — In the lead-up to China’s Communist Party Congress last month, watercooler chatter in many offices here focused on … Read more
Hong Kong CNN — As a new, deadly virus overtook the central city of Wuhan and spread throughout China in early 2020, the country’s ruling Communist Party and its leader Xi Jinping were faced with a crisis on a scale not seen in decades. In Wuhan, there was chaos. The city shut itself off from … Read more
CNN — A young woman stands on her balcony, crying out in desperation after her building was ordered into lockdown. Fighting back tears, she shouts abuse at the hazmat-suited workers below in a video that has recently gone viral on social media platform Weibo and which appears to encapsulate the Chinese public’s growing frustration with … Read more
Editor’s Note: Gad Levanon is the chief economist at the Burning Glass Institute. He’s the former head of The Conference Board’s Labor Market Institute. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. To many economists and analysts, the US economy has represented a paradox this year. On the one hand, GDP growth has slowed … Read more
By Céline Gounder Friday, September 16, 2022 (Kaiser News) — Before polio vaccines became available in the 1950s, people wary of the disabling disease were afraid to allow their children outside, let alone go to school. As polio appears again decades after it was considered eliminated in the U.S., Americans unfamiliar with the dreaded disease … Read more
By Suresh Pattathil The pandemic facilitated innovative practices which have transformed healthcare as we know it today. While making healthcare accessible to a larger section of the community, it also exposed the need for further enhancement of patient-centric facilities for better health outcomes. While some have become comfortable accessing healthcare services online, many continue to … Read more
By Satish Kumar Over the previous years, digital technologies have gone a widespread adoption across health organisations. It has helped healthcare organisations in reducing efficiencies, improving access and enhancing the quality of care. Digital Healthcare is also helping in preventing chronic diseases. One of the key technologies driving this transformation is Artificial Intelligence. It is … Read more
An alarming spike in COVID-19 and flu cases in Australia could put the U.S. on track for what health experts call a “twindemic” – a dangerous viral one-two punch in the months ahead. Source link
According to new research by scientists at the University of Utah, the study explains how mom and dad genes shape behaviour, as each parent has a unique influence on hormones and other chemical messengers that control behaviour and mood. The findings of the research were published in the journal ‘Cell Reports’. Parenting is not the only way how … Read more