Healthcare

• [New] The United States should work to concentrate global attention on common issues such as climate and health, which will have knock - on benefits for U.S. competitiveness and influence. / Foreign Affairs Magazine
• [New] Disruption is costly to the healthcare supply chain, as Gartner reports that 37.7% of the total cost of patient care comes from healthcare supply chain costs to serve. / KORE Wireless
• [New] The reported numbers might not be representative of actual Covid cases in villages because rural India lives with low health awareness, crumbling basic health care and infrastructure, and low testing. / The Financial Express
• [New] Parks Canada is putting appropriate measures in place to help Canadians stay safe, and visitors are expected to follow the recommendations of public health officials. / en
• [New] Global public health officials have been urging wealthy nations to start distributing their donations soon, rather than releasing extra doses all at once later in 2021, so that countries could administer doses as they arrived. / The New York Times
• [New] Bahrain has freed some prisoners considered at risk, such as pregnant women, in response to the health crisis. / Middle East Eye
• [New] In 2021 Cycling UK is focusing on the mental health and wellbeing improvements that cycling brings - lowering your risk of developing cancer by 45% and of cardiovascular disease by 46%. / Metro.co.uk
• [New] Due to high morbidity and mortality, ischemic cerebrovascular disease has gradually become a serious threat to human health worldwide. / Frontiers
• [New] In Eastern Uganda, unintended pregnancies soon after childbirth are common, leaving the health and wellbeing of women and children at risk. / ideas42
• [New] $200bn + combined total addressable market materially expands opportunity to reinvent healthcare with a focus on improving health outcomes and managing rising costs. / Accolade, Inc.
• [New] Datavant will now provide data services to more than 2,000 U.S. hospitals, 15,000 clinics, 120 health plans and 100 health data analytics companies as well as more than 75 state, local and federal government agencies and a number of life sciences companies. / FierceHealthcare
• [New] In the last decade, climate campaigns have alerted people to the danger of plastic and human health. / Plastic Soup Foundation
• [New] The voice and speech recognition tech market is anticipated to be worth $31.82 billion by 2025, driven by new applications in the banking, health care, and automotive industries. / VentureBeat
• [New] With alcohol consumption accounting for around seven percent of early deaths, the World Health Organization recommended in 2018 that Member States should aim for a reduction of harmful alcohol use by at least ten percent by 2025. / The George Institute for Global Health
• [New] Counterfeits pose risks to human health and safety, erode U.S. economic competitiveness and diminish the reputations and trustworthiness of U.S. products and producers. / Transport Times
• [New] The CACHC will share project materials with community health centres in provinces without a CHC Association so that communities across Canada can benefit from equitable COVID-19 vaccination resources. / Government of Canada
• [New] The appropriate use of health data is an important part of health and care research and planning in England, and better sharing of health data could offer substantial benefits. / ComputerWeekly.com
• [New] NHS and care staff in England are so burnt out that it has become an emergency and risks the future of the health service. / BBC News
• [New] All UN bodies and agencies including the World Health Organization have a role and responsibility in supporting civil society participation, protecting civil society actors from threats and attacks, and promoting an enabling environment for their work at national and international level. / policydialogues2021
• [New] Advanced pharmaceutical ingredients: The Department of Health and Human Services will use authority granted under the Defense Production Act to commit approximately $60 million to develop novel platform technologies to increase domestic manufacturing capacity for API. / CNBC

Last updated: 13 June 2021