Impact of ultrasound in pregnancy: Wellbeing Foundation Africa and GE HealthCare team up for change
According to the World Health Organization, the Maternal Mortality Rate in Nigeria in 2017, was estimated at 917 per 100,000 live births; it increased by nearly 14 per cent in 2020 to reach 1,047 deaths two with evidence suggesting that the increase in rates is due to three common signs of delay: in making the decision to seek maternal healthcare, in locating and arriving at a medical facility, and in receiving skilled pregnancy care when a woman gets to the health facility.
Kenya hospital first in Africa to join global alliance against heart and kidney diseases
The hospital says it has set its focus on the following centres of excellence: cardiovascular, cancer and transplant, maternal and child-health, and ambulatory surgical care. This is achieved through a multi-disciplinary approach using various specialists.
Six CIA whistleblowers received ‘significant financial incentives’ to buy their silence on Covid leaking from Chinese lab
A joint letter from the subcommittee and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (Republican-Ohio), sent September 12 to CIA Director William Burns, outlined the testimony of a “multi-decade, senior-level, current agency officer” alleging six of the seven analysts investigating the Covid-19 origins were given a “significant monetary incentive to change their position.”
Drug maker Johnson & Johnson hit by 11,000 more lawsuits linking baby powder to cancer
That price is a little over three times the $26 per dose the federal government paid for the last updated booster, which was exclusively distributed by the government. The price hike marks the vaccine’s move from federal distribution to the commercial market. Moderna and rival manufacturer Pfizer raised the US list price of their Covid-19 vaccines by roughly 400 per cent. (Moderna’s is listed at $128 and Pfizer’s is $115).
Ex-White House’s chief medical advisor Fauci raked in millions from Covid pandemic, earns sky-high pension
Fauci is estimated to be collecting a federal pension that rivals a presidential salary, Andrzejewski added, calling it “the largest federal retirement package in history.”
Study finds women who use beauty products with ‘forever chemicals’ face high risk of cancer
Researchers led by Dr Max Aung of the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine, examined data from more than 10,000 people aged 20 or older. he data were collected from 2005-2018 through the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), a Centres for Disease Control and Prevention surveillance programme.
5th Circuit Court pause on White House contact with social media expected to take censorship case to US Supreme Court
Kim Mack Rosenberg, acting general counsel for Children’s Health Defense (CHD) told The Defender it was not surprising that Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar asked the Supreme Court to stay the injunction, nor that the court issued a brief administrative stay, as the 5th Circuit had also done in July.
Hopes for animal-human transplants soar after pig kidney works for two months in brain-dead patient
Dr Montgomery, himself a recipient of a heart transplant, sees animal-to-human transplants as crucial to ease the nation’s organ shortage. More than 100,000 people are on the national waiting list, most who need a kidney, and thousands will die waiting.
US intelligence community, FBI, comes under blistering criticism for blocking access to information
The 5th Circuit vacated all but one of the lower court’s specific prohibitions, but affirmed prohibition six, which barred the officials and agencies in question from “threatening, pressuring or coercing social-media companies in any manner to remove, delete, suppress or reduce posted content of postings containing protected free speech.”
How US used data ‘mercenaries’ to sanitise fake Covid vaccines, give drug makers leeway to make a killing
In March 2022, Murthy, Psaki and other members of the Biden administration threatened social media platforms with regulatory action, including potential antitrust proceedings and loss of liability protection Communications Decency Act Section 230 if they did not turn over Covid-19 “misinformation” data to the White House.
