Covid: New variant detected ‘due to strength of UK surveillance’
EU urges countries to lift UK travel bans Dozens of countries, alarmed by a new coronavirus variant, have suspended travel links with the UK. Source link
Surveillance
Individual health e-records to aid in disease surveillance: Niti paper – ET HealthWorld
Sushmi.Dey New Delhi: The government may consider making individual digital health records the basis for surveillance of various communicable as well as non-communicable diseases over the next 15 years, says a vision document prepared by Niti Aayog on ‘Public Health Surveillance in India by 2035’. Taking a cue from the Covid-19 pandemic when India had … Read more
First dynamic Covid surveillance system rolls out in 195 nations – ET HealthWorld
NEW YORK: In a first, a team of scientists has developed a new Covid-19 global surveillance system which can dynamically track not just where the virus is now, but where it is going, how fast it will arrive and whether that speed is accelerating. The new surveillance system has now been rolled out in 195 … Read more
‘Hidden’ Prostate Cancer Usually Means Good Outcome
By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Nov. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Negative biopsies among early-stage prostate cancer patients who’ve chosen active surveillance are associated with a low risk of disease progression, but … Read more