Sabine Torgler Staff Nurse University Hospital Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) Director English for Nurses Ltd. Board member, European Nurse Directors Association UK My Dear Readers, Happy April to you all. I hope my words find you well. It's time for thoughts from the island. The title of this...
READ MOREReal men don't cry – or at least that is what society has made us believe. Hypermasculinisation refers to a gender role that makes men feel crying is weak or feminine. Unfortunately, the trend has produced men who cannot express themselves, and bottling up these emotions leads to depression and harms mental health. Everyone has their...
READ MOREToday during World Health Worker Week, the World Health Organization (WHO) published guidance on Bilateral agreements on health worker migration and mobility . The guidance was developed by WHO and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, with the International Labour Organization, as part of the Working for Health programme....
READ MOREThe patient lies still on the operating table, softly inhaling the anesthetic gases that keep her safely sedated during surgery. Then she breathes out, and the anesthesia that wasn’t metabolized by her body—roughly 95 percent of the gas flowing through the anesthesia machine—is exhaled, unused and unchanged. That gas is then vented through the...
READ MOREThe top supplier of nurses globally, the Philippines is hit with a shortage of nurses at home. Retention strategies could involve creating a positive working environment that boosts nurses’ work satisfaction and career development The Philippines has been known as a major – if not the largest – exporter of nurses globally. It was estimated...
READ MOREClinical trials are how we discover new cures, and they can be a life-saving form of treatment. Paradigm is breaking down barriers in the healthcare industry with technology that brings clinical trials to more people, such as cancer patients, while reducing the paperwork burden for doctors and nurses to address clinician burnout. Clinical...
READ MOREStatement by Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe. My professional involvement with HIV goes back 30 years, to 1994 when I joined MSF-Belgium working on TB and HIV in Somalia. The world was a very different place; an HIV diagnosis was practically a death sentence, getting tested was a lengthy ordeal and treatment...
READ MOREPutting a computer inside someone’s brain used to feel like the edge of science fiction. It’s a reality . Academic and commercial groups are testing “brain-computer interface” devices to enable people with disabilities to function more independently. Yet Elon Musk’s company, Neuralink, has put this technology front and center in debates about...
READ MOREBy Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus , Director-General of the World Health Organization; Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber , President-designate of COP 28 United Nations Climate Change Conference; and Dr Vanessa Kerry , WHO Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health, CEO of Seed Global Health In the face of one of the greatest health threats...
READ MOREMy dear readers, Happy New Year to you! 2024 is here! FINALLY! I hope you have had a good start so far. Well, well, well... another year, new thoughts, new challenges, and the good old resolutions? Hang on a minute- what are those? I have been out of the resolution department for years. In the past, I had made resolutions for...
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