i Chemical leak at LG plant in India kills 11, about 1,000 injured By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 10:14:15 -0500 HYDERABAD, India (AP) — A gas leak at a chemical factory owned by a South Korean company in southern India early Thursday left at least 11 people dead and about 1,000 struggling to breathe. The chemical styrene, used to make plastic and... Full Article
i Rogue tourists arrested as Hawaii tries to curb virus spread By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 10:21:49 -0500 HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii authorities are cracking down on rogue tourists who are visiting beaches, riding personal watercraft, shopping and generally flouting strict requirements that they quarantine for 14 days after arriving. A newlywed... Full Article
i Rare inflammatory condition affects some children with COVID-19 By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 17:11:53 -0500 Dozens of United States children have been hospitalised with a serious inflammatory condition possibly linked with the coronavirus and first seen in Europe. New York authorities announced Wednesday that 64 potential cases had been reported to... Full Article
i Can COVID-19 survive on my phone? By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 17:24:17 -0500 Can COVID-19 survive on my phone? Yes. That’s why a daily wipe down of “high-touch” surfaces like phones, keyboards and tablet computers is recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A scientific test... Full Article
i CSME needed to rescue COVID-hit economies By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 00:23:04 -0500 COVID-19-ravaged regional economies, including Jamaica, will need the united strength of the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) to help revive their micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) sectors, many of which have been decimated. That... Full Article
i Netanyahu gets backing to form new gov’t By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 00:19:08 -0500 JERUSALEM (AP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formally received the support of a majority of lawmakers to lead a new government yesterday, paving the way for a controversial power-sharing deal with rival-turned-partner Benny Gantz.... Full Article
i TV network fights closure with court petition By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 00:19:25 -0500 MANILA (AP): The Philippines’ largest TV and radio network, which was shutdown this week by a government regulator, asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to return to the air amid an uproar over its closure. ABS-CBN Corp said in its... Full Article
i Putin-Trump call focuses on coronavirus, arms control, oil By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 00:19:49 -0500 MOSCOW (AP): United States (US) President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed progress in combating the coronavirus pandemic, along with arms-control issues and oil prices, in a phone call Thursday, the White House and the... Full Article
i Venerable but vulnerable: Centenarians hit hard by virus By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 09:42:22 -0500 BOSTON (AP) — Centenarians have always been a rare breed. Now they’re an endangered species. The 100-plus crowd — those most venerable of human beings — is succumbing rapidly and heartbreakingly to the coronavirus... Full Article
i South Africa parliament video call hacked with pornography By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 10:43:05 -0500 JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A virtual meeting of South African lawmakers has been disrupted by hackers who flooded the video call with pornographic images. In the incident on Thursday, the hackers also hurled racial and sexual insults at the meeting... Full Article
i No imminent lockdown restrictions in hard-hit UK By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 13:03:38 -0500 LONDON — Britain’s minister for the environment, food and rural affairs says Prime Minister Boris Johnson won’t be announcing immediate changes to the country’s coronavirus lockdown when he addresses the nation on Sunday.... Full Article
i US pulls permission for Chinese masks found defective By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 15:12:39 -0500 WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials have revoked US authorisation for masks made by more than 60 Chinese manufacturers after they failed to meet standards needed to protect health care workers. The Food and Drug Administration had... Full Article
i US planning to ship 8,000 ventilators abroad By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 16:54:29 -0500 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, who’s taken to calling the US the “king” of ventilators, is making plans to ship 8,000 of the breathing machines to foreign countries by the end of July to help in their fight... Full Article
i Colombian company creates bed that can double as coffin By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 17:15:58 -0500 BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A Colombian advertising company is pitching a novel, if morbid, solution to shortages of hospital beds and coffins during the coronavirus pandemic: combine them. ABC Displays has created a cardboard bed with metal... Full Article
i Samuda to make strong push for regional pro football league By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 00:14:35 -0500 JAMAICA OLYMPIC Association (JOA) President Christopher Samuda believes that his sports administration experience will aid him in helping to finally shape a professional football league in the Caribbean. Concacaf announced Samuda’s appointment to... Full Article
i Brathwaite for Tallawahs By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 00:17:43 -0500 The Jamaica Tallawahs have wasted little time in finding a replacement for the ‘Universe Boss’ Chris Gayle, as they have snapped up the captain of the St Kitts and Nevis Patriots, Carlos Brathwaite. The Gleaner has been reliably informed that... Full Article
i Umpires suffering ‘dislocation’ but looking to alternatives – Johnson By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 00:13:00 -0500 ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC): A top West Indies Cricket Umpires Association (WICUA) official says regional umpires have also been heavily impacted by the cessation of cricket, stemming from the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Vivian Johnson, who... Full Article
i Ramdin among new Patriots signings By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 23:06:19 -0500 BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC): ST KITTS AND Nevis Patriots have made some significant changes to their line-up for the upcoming Caribbean Premier League (CPL) season. Captain Carlos Brathwaite has gone to the Jamaica Tallawahs, while the Patriots have... Full Article
i Harriott urges caution with RSPL decision By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 23:16:13 -0500 Portmore United captain Rosario Harriott says the Premier League Clubs Association shouldn’t rush to call off this season of the Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The league was stopped indefinitely in mid-March... Full Article
i Deepening the pool - Western Jamaican swim clubs seek government development and new pool in region to foster training By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 23:18:02 -0500 Western Bureau: A number of swimming officials in western Jamaica say that the region’s struggles with underdevelopment will continue even if the COVID-19 pandemic is brought under control. They say this is because they still lack proper pools to... Full Article
i Caymanas Track operations resume tomorrow By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 20:09:44 -0500 Supreme Ventures Racing and Entertainment Limited, operators of Caymanas Track, has announced the re-opening of the main track, effective tomorrow. The company said in a press release on Thursday evening that the track will be opened for two days... Full Article
i COVID-19 crippling Caribbean football – McNab By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 00:05:46 -0500 FORMER NATIONAL footballer Aldrick ‘Allie’ McNab is concerned about the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Caribbean’s football development. The coronavirus has caused the postponement, suspension, and cancellation of a number of sporting... Full Article
i Former national footballer Lattimore passes By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 11:12:25 -0500 Former national footballer Arthur Lattimore has died. Lattimore, who represented Jamaica in the 1970s, lost his battle with throat cancer at his home in Florida on Thursday. Lattimore, who was known as one of Jamaica's most skilful left-sided... Full Article
i Bundesliga to resume on May 16 By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 00:17:46 -0500 BERLIN, Germany (AP): THE BUNDESLIGA football season will resume on May 16 in empty stadiums, picking up right where it left off two months ago amid the coronavirus pandemic. Yesterday’s announcement comes one day after clubs were told the season... Full Article
i MoBay City Run going virtual By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 00:14:53 -0500 Western Bureau: THE MOBAY City Run organisers have reconsidered the event’s cancellation. Organising committee chairperson Janet Silvera said on Sunday, the day the event was to have taken place, that the seventh staging of the 5K/10K Walk and Run... Full Article
i Female athletes need more recognition – Clayton By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 00:23:08 -0500 National 400m hurdles champion Rushell Clayton is concerned about what she says are inequalities between men and women in track and field. Clayton was speaking at a Women in Sports Conference in Kingston recently and discussed issues of inequality... Full Article
i KC denies Vascianna rumours By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 00:10:13 -0500 KINGSTON COLLEGE (KC) principal Dave Myrie has refuted claims that St Jago High School sprint hurdler Vashaun Vascianna will be joining the school this September. The Gleaner understands that Vascianna, who broke the Class Two boys’ 110m hurdles... Full Article
i Nadal asks Djokovic to consider vaccines By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 00:14:02 -0500 MADRID, Spain (AP): Rafael Nadal says Novak Djokovic will need to be vaccinated to keep playing if the governing bodies of tennis make coronavirus shots obligatory once they become available. Nadal told the Spanish newspaper La Voz de Galicia this... Full Article
i Windies players lack commitment – Benjamin By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 00:13:16 -0500 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): Former Windies fast bowler Kenny Benjamin says that cricket in the Caribbean is suffering from players’ lack of loyalty and commitment and that intervention is required to save the sport. The Antiguan called for coaches... Full Article
i Late Lattimore described as ‘crowd-pleaser’ By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 00:15:50 -0500 Former national footballer Arthur Lattimore passed away after a long battle with throat cancer. Lattimore, who represented Jamaica’s football team throughout the 1970s, died at his home in Florida, leaving behind five children, grandchildren, and... Full Article
i Hexed - JFF finds possible World Cup Qualifying structure changes ‘disadvantageous’ By jamaica-gleaner.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 00:14:49 -0500 Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) general secretary Dalton Wint says that any potential changes to the Concacaf hexagonal round for the FIFA World Cup qualifiers could present challenges to the nation’s aim of qualifying for Qatar 2022. Wint’s... Full Article
i Great leap backwards - austerity measures are hitting the vulnerable hardest By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:19:43 +0000 The UK’s austerity programme has disproportionately affected children and people with disabilities, says David Taylor-Robinson, a senior clinical lecturer in public health at the University of Liverpool. He joins us to discuss why the evidence shows the vulnerable are hit hardest by the cuts to public services, despite the UN conventions on... Full Article
i Musical (operating) theatre By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:15:02 +0000 One hundred years ago, Pennsylvanian surgeon Evan Kane penned a brief letter to JAMA in which he declared himself a rigorous proponent of the “benefic [sic] effects of the phonograph within the operating room.” Now David Bosenquet, a surgeon from University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff has written a Christmas editorial about the evidence for the... Full Article
i Men are idiots By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 16:02:30 +0000 Winners of the Darwin Award must eliminate themselves from the gene pool in such an idiotic manner that their action ensures one less idiot will survive. Ben and Dennis Lendrem, and colleagues, have reviewed the data on winners of the Darwin Award over a 20 year period and they join us to discuss why men are idiots, and why their team is not the... Full Article
i Operating theatre time, where does it all go? By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 15:45:21 +0000 Waiting times in theatre can be a source of friction – but is the delay due to mandatory anaesthetic faff around time (MAFAT), or AWOL surgeons? Elizabeth Travis, and orthopaedic house officer in New Zealand and colleagues, have been trying to create and evidence base to argue the toss, and she joins me now to discuss her study, Operating... Full Article
i Is the Hep C screening expansion justified? By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 11:56:33 +0000 Until recently, hepatitis C screening was offered to people at increased risk of infection - such as intravenous drug users - but now, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended screening all people born between 1945 and 1965. Kenny Lin, associate professor of family medicine at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and... Full Article
i Rabies in animals By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 17:42:59 +0000 Rabies is the archytypical zoonotic disease, and only by vaccination in animals will we prevent infections in people. In two podcasts linked to our latest clinical review "The prevention and management of rabies" we'll be discussing how we can get there. In this podcast Sarah Cleaveland, professor of comparative epidemiology at the University of... Full Article
i WHO needs exercise? By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 13:10:58 +0000 Philipe de Souto Barreto argues that, to reduce premature mortality, policies should focus on getting fully inactive people to do a little physical activity rather than strive for the entire population to meet current physical activity recommendations. Read the full analysis paper: http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h23 Full Article
i Managing multimorbidity in primary care By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:56:24 +0000 Multimorbidity presents a number of different challenges, for the patients living with the conditions, but also for the health professionals caring for them in systems that often are not designed with these more complex needs in mind. Emma Wallace, general practice lecturer, and Susan Smith, a professor of general practice at the Royal College of... Full Article
i Management of cancer induced bone pain By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 17:07:05 +0000 Bone pain is the most common type of pain from cancer and is present in around one third of patients with bone metastases, currently, improvements in cancer treatments mean that many patients are living with metastatic cancer for several years. Christopher Kane, NIHR academic clinical fellow in palliative medicine at Leeds University School of... Full Article
i International donations to the Ebola virus outbreak: too little, too late? By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 11:19:32 +0000 Karen Grépin, assistant professor of global health policy at New York University, has been examining the pledges made by the international community to help fight the ebola virus outbreak - was it really too little, too late? Read her full analysis: http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h376 Full Article
i Patient spotlight - Doing it for themselves By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 11:45:45 +0000 In our accompanying roundtable discussion,we hear views from a group of patients and clinicians based largely in the UK on the actions required to advance progress towards providing patient centred care. To extend the conversation we talked to members of the BMJ's international patient advisory panel and other patient advocates - and what... Full Article
i Patient spotlight - How can we get better at providing patient centred care? By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 12:04:46 +0000 Participants in our discussion on person centred care in January agreed that a change in culture and better use of technology could benefit both patients and doctors. At the roundtable: Fiona Godlee (chair), editor in chief, The BMJ Tessa Richards, senior editor, patient partnership, The BMJ Rosamund Snow, patient editor, The BMJ Navjoyt Ladher,... Full Article
i Mark Folman GP - time pressure and patient care By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 16:17:24 +0000 Mark Folman, a GP in Nottinghamshire, is concerned that more and more work, with more and more patients, means less time with those who really need him. BMJ Voices is a collection of readers’ experiences of working in the NHS. For this, The BMJ is seeking short audio submissions from UK listeners. These submissions will be published on... Full Article
i Michelle Sinclair GP - surgery buildings are not up to scratch By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 16:17:25 +0000 Michelle Sinclar, a GP in Hampshire who is concerned that GP premises aren't fit for purpose and limit her ability to provide fully rounded patient care. BMJ Voices is a collection of readers’ experiences of working in the NHS. For this, The BMJ is seeking short audio submissions from UK listeners. These submissions will be published on... Full Article
i Jackie Applebee GP - the funding formula is hurting deprived practices By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 16:27:24 +0000 Jackie Applebee is a GP in Tower Hamlets in London, and is concerned that the way the GP funding formula is working doesn't take account of the earlier health needs of people in deprived areas. For more about the Tower Hamlets Save Our Surgery campaign, visit their facebook page https://www.facebook.com/SaveOurGPsurgeries BMJ Voices is a... Full Article
i Overdiagnosis in breast cancer - 45 years to become a mainstream idea By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 10:34:35 +0000 In this podcast Alexandra Barratt, professor of public health at the University of Sydney, discusses how questions about overdiagnosis in breast cancer screening programmes were first raised 45 years ago, and why it has taken so long for the concept to become mainstream. Read her full analysis: http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h867 Full Article
i Nuffield summit - Bastiaan Bloem on parkinsons.net By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 16:22:29 +0000 Bastiaan Bloem, consultant neurologist at Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Netherlands, discussing his revolutionary approach to patient centred care. Read more from the summit: http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h1172 Full Article
i Has the balance of screening for AAA tipped towards harm? By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 16:32:30 +0000 Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) are usually asymptomatic until they rupture, which is fatal in more than 80% of cases. Screening aims to detect the aneurysm before it ruptures, enabling preventive surgery and hence reducing morbidity and mortality. However, preventive surgery has a mortality of 3.9-4.5%. As the prevalence of risk factors, ie... Full Article
i Patrick Keating GP - under pressure to increase list size By feeds.bmj.com Published On :: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 14:55:51 +0000 BMJ Voices is a collection of readers’ experiences of working in the NHS. For this, The BMJ is seeking short audio submissions from UK listeners. These submissions will be published on thebmj.com. Patrick Keating, a GP from Enfield, is concerned that small practices are under pressure to increase list size, but aren't able to muster resources to... Full Article