WHO-OHCHR launch new guidance to improve laws addressing human rights abuses in mental health care: Ahead of World Mental Health Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) are jointly launching a new guidance, entitled “Mental health, human rights and legislation: guidance and practice”, to support […]
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Weighing up risk: home insurance in a changing climate: A UNSW Sydney scientist explains some of the psychological processes that influence our decision making around home insurance and climate change. The world is rapidly changing in the face of global warming. While climate risk was once seen as a problem that existed in the physical […]
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Comprehensive cholera statistics for 2022, published by WHO today, shed light on the scale and extent of the ongoing cholera upsurge. While data for cholera remain inadequate, cases reported to WHO in 2022 were more than double those in 2021. Forty-four countries reported cases, a 25% increase from the 35 countries that reported cases in […]
Recovery colleges help support the global population’s mental health, new study finds: For the first time ever, results from a global survey – spanning 28 countries – reveal how many recovery colleges exist internationally, how they work and how they are supporting people with mental health issues around the world. The results, published today (September […]
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A pioneering programme which is bringing affordable, reliable and portable diagnostics for multiple diseases to sub-Saharan Africa is set to be presented at an event linked to the United Nations General Assembly this week. On Thursday 14 September, members of the Digital Innovations and Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases in Africa project, or DIDIDA, will be […]
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A groundbreaking review of studies involving more than 21 million people worldwide has revealed attention deficit hyperactivity disorder affects a staggering three per cent of the global adult population. Disturbingly, nine out of ten adults diagnosed with ADHD are not receiving the crucial treatment they require. The landmark review led by Curtin University examined 57 […]
New insights on why epilepsy develops, potential treatments in world’s largest genetic study: Specific changes in our DNA that increase the risk of developing epilepsy have been discovered, in the largest genetic study of its kind for epilepsy coordinated by the International League Against Epilepsy, which includes scientists from the University of Melbourne and WEHI […]
A global review which combined results from published studies of more than seven million fathers, including Australians and their children, has confirmed there is a significant link between a father’s depression and an increased risk of mental health issues in their children. The Curtin University-led review looked at 16 international studies undertaken between 2002 and […]
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Saudi Surgeons Save Down Syndrome Child following 3-hour surgery to correct a congenital heart defect. Surgeons in Al Ahsa (eastern Saudi Arabia) performed an urgent surgery on a 1-year-old child suffering from congenital heart defects. Saudi Health stated that specialists at Prince Sultan Cardiac Center succeeded in correcting a birth defect during a 3-hour surgery […]
Heat can cause rapid food insecurity in days: Households hit by very hot weather can struggle to maintain food supplies in a matter of days rather than months, according to a study from Oxford researcher Carolin Kroeger, who reveals for the first time that food security can be rapidly impacted by heat. The specialist in […]
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