#preventable diseases

[autumn2may]

Johnson & Johnson is currently, like right this minute, trying to extend their patent on the TB drug bedaquiline, keeping it out of generic for another four years. TB killed about 30,000 people last week and is the world's deadliest infectious disease.

If this drug does not go generic now it could affect 6 million people in the next four years (the time it would take the "new" patent to run out). Out of those millions of people who get TB, but can't get bedaquiline, most of them will die. From a PREVENTABLE DISEASE.

Why is this happening? Money. But also, because TB is not an issue in countries like the US. We can afford its $1.50 a pill price. But if you live in a poor country, that's too much money to spend on something you need to take for up to four months.

J&J needs to let this drug go public and do its job in places that can't currently afford it. They need to help people, instead of trying to wring the last few drops of money out of one of their many products, at the cost of human lives. @sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog does a waaaay better job of explaining this than me. Check out the video and the video description for links and ways to help!

#johnson and johnson #j&j #bedaquiline #tuberculosis #preventable diseases #patientsnotpatents #patients not patents #patients #doctors #medical science #medical #medication #science tumblr #health care #health industry #pharmaceutical #TB #healthcare #treatment #medicine #people are dying #help if you can #help plz #do something #booklr #rich people #poor people #Youtube #john green #hank green

[odinsblog]

Willfully, aggressively ignorant antivaxxers will be the reason why The Walking Dead becomes non-fiction

#politics #republicans #antivaxxers #covidiots #childhood vaccines #preventable diseases #preventable illnesses #religious exemptions #bullshit exemptions #childhood vaccinations

[reasonsforhope]

"A new World Health Organization (WHO) report highlights that 5.6 billion people – 71% of the world’s population – are now protected with at least one best practice policy to help save lives from deadly tobacco – five times more than in 2007.

[Note: Going by the math, that means just (roughly) 14% of people were covered by tobacco control policies in 2007. Talk about a huge increase!]

In the last 15 years since WHO’s MPOWER tobacco control measures were introduced globally, smoking rates have fallen. Without this decline there would be an estimated 300 million more smokers in the world today.

This WHO Report on the global tobacco epidemic, supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, is focused on protecting the public from second-hand smoke, highlighting that almost 40% of countries now have completely smoke-free indoor public places.

The report rates country progress in tobacco control and shows that two more countries, Mauritius and the Netherlands, have achieved best-practice level in all MPOWER measures, a feat that only Brazil and Türkiye had accomplished until now.

[Note: In late 2021, the former Turkey changed official its name to Türkiye, shedding the English/Anglicized spelling.]

“These data show that slowly but surely, more and more people are being protected from the harms of tobacco by WHO’s evidence-based best-practice policies,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General...

Smoke-free public spaces is just one policy in the set of effective tobacco control measures, MPOWER, to help countries implement the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and curb the tobacco epidemic.

Smoke-free environments help people breathe clean air, shield the public from deadly second-hand smoke, motivate people to quit, denormalize smoking and help prevent young people from ever starting to smoke or use e-cigarettes.

“While smoking rates have been going down, tobacco is still the leading cause of preventable death in the world – largely due to relentless marketing campaigns by the tobacco industry,” said Michael R. Bloomberg, WHO Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases and Injuries...

Eight countries are just one MPOWER policy away from joining the leaders in tobacco control: Ethiopia, Iran, Ireland, Jordan, Madagascar, Mexico, New Zealand, and Spain...

This report demonstrates that all countries irrespective of income levels can drive down the demand for deadly tobacco, achieve major wins for public health and save economies billions of dollars in health care and productivity costs."

-via World Health Organization, July 31, 2023

#smoking #cigarette #tobacco #cw smoking #nicotine #big tobacco #smokers #world health organization #brazil #turkiye #turkey #netherlands #mauritius #public health #preventable diseases #mortality rate #good news #hope

[yeltsinsstar]

#new zealand #nz #aotearoa #measles #disease #preventable diseases #vaccine #vaccinated #mealses vaccine

[rhodeislandwellnessmedicalcenter]

In the bustling rhythm of life, you can often prioritize everything else over your health. But, stepping back to assess your wellness can have profound benefits. This is where the importance of routine physical exams becomes clear. 

#Health Maintenance #Preventable Diseases #Wellness Assessment

[gracelovepharmacy]

There are many misconceptions and misinformation that surround vaccines. Some people get skeptical about getting immunized because of the wrong notion that vaccines can cause certain diseases. For instance, vaccines are said to cause autoimmune diseases. But in truth, vaccines help people with autoimmune diseases get protected. As your trusted retail pharmacy in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, it is part of our services to discuss these matters.

#Healthcare Information #Pharmacy Services #Preventable Diseases

[studentbyday]

#big pharma #tuberculosis #preventable diseases #developing countries #social justice #world health #accessibility #Youtube #injustice #inequality #inequity #capitalism

[theradicalscholar]

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#politics #rfk jr #antivaxxers #autism #medical racism #childhood vaccinations #preventable illnesses #preventable diseases #robert f kennedy #rfkjr #books to read #popular books #book review #book reactions #reading #TheRealAnthonyFauci #UnmaskingTheTruth #PandemicRevelations #CorruptionExposed #MustReadBook #EyeOpeningExposé #AlternativePerspectives #ChallengingNarratives #DeeperUnderstanding #TruthSeekers #ControversialAnalysis #ThoughtProvoking #HiddenAgendas #BiomedicalScience #PandemicAftermath

[nihilsticpanda]

I work with some really stupid people. There's a colleague who said she's "going a different route" with her kid's shots. I know this person enough to assume what they're saying is actually "I'm not getting my child immunizations for easily preventable diseases because I saw some Facebook posts telling me not to."

I hate this world. Every day I regret that I'm in it and that my son has to grow up in this terrible place with people who don't want to do the bare minimum to protect their children.

#coworkers #anti vaxxers #anti intelligence is more like it though #science #preventable diseases

[wild-neko]

disabled people: we are still dying, can you please just wear a mask to the grocery store and doctor’s offices so we can live

conservatives: no, die or stay inside all day, no one cares

leftists: no 🏳️‍🌈✨💖

#wear a mask #covid #sars cov 2 #disability rights #eugenics #disability pride month #lgbt #it really is like this :') #queer #pandemic #ableism #disabled queer #auspol #me not ever being able to share the same air with anyone ever really does something to your mental health #trying not to die in the ongoing pandemic #wear a fucking mask #we would actually like to access third spaces too #we just lost 100 years of disease prevention bc govt propaganda worked a little too well and gave every single medical person brain rot #they went from 'do no harm' to 'actually i think you should quit complaining and allow me to kill you with airborn aids' #which is happening EVERYWHERE BTW and it made it to the media that an aust hospital COVERED IT UP like this is what we're dealing with #this is what modern day eugenics looks like and no one gives a shit #Ableism #HAPPY NEW YEAR #pride #LGBTQIA #activism #acab

[maryannmccarra-fitzpatrick]

#RocklandCounty

#PublicHealth

#Polio

#ProofOfVaccination

#EdwinJDay

#CountyExecutive

#Schumer

#Gillibrand

#Jones

#Polio #vaccination #vaccinations #measles #proof of vaccination #travelers #travellers #Ed Day #County Executive #Rockland #Rockland County #County Executive Ed Day #disease prevention #prevention #preventable diseases #mumps #rubella #tetanus #pertussis

[juniper-clan]

When did the baby get so wise???

Longpaw??? Great intelligence but what??? /pos

#starclan is giving him game cheats #warrior cats #clangen #clangen warrior cats #jcasks #warriors oc #wc #wc oc #starclan loves him #I think without them they’d both be dead of preventable disease #like…..getting a thorn in their paw

[reasonsforhope]

Cancer

“Starting at home, a study last year found that US cancer deaths had declined by 33% since 1991. This is equivalent to around 3.8 million people alive thanks to various efforts to combat the disease family.

The report was authored by the American Cancer Society, and published in the journal CA. American Cancer Society CEO Karen Knudsen called the drop “truly formidable,” while the report attributed the fall to the development of better treatments, the reduction in smoking habits, and earlier detection methods.

Just between 2019 and 2020, cancer death rates dropped 1.5%, while the deployment of the HPV vaccine was correlated with a 65% drop in cervical cancer rates from 2012 through 2019 among women in their 30s.

The report also found that not only are death rates falling, but 5-year survival rates for detected cancers have increased 68% among all diagnoses made between 2012 and 2018.

Guinea Worm Disease

Cancer research often involves cutting edge medical research, but across West Africa and India where cutting edge medicine is not widely available, human determination has succeeded in nearly eradicating Guinea Worm disease.

There are records of this truly unpleasant parasite affecting human health going back thousands of years, and in 1989, there were nearly 1 million cases globally.

But in 2022, this unwelcome waterborne guest created just 15 cases worldwide—a decline of 99.998%, and almost all 15 of those cases occurred in Chad.

This monumental turnaround was not the result of some experimental vaccine, but simple education, teaching people how to avoid drinking contaminated water, when and where this mostly seasonal parasite is likely to be found, and how to treat water to purify it of the Guinea worm.

Ebola

Other than Chad, Guinea Worm disease was also found in Uganda, which produced another medical milestone with the successful eradication of a recent Ebola outbreak.

The outbreak began in September, driven on by the incurable Sudan strain of the virus. It was the worst outbreak in 20 years, but even though there is no vaccine for the Sudan strain, the health authorities managed to contain it to just two administrative districts, and 142 confirmed cases.

“The magic bullet has been our communities who understood the importance of doing what was needed to end the outbreak, and took action,” said health minister Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng Ocero last Wednesday.

Vaccine trials involving Oxford University are currently underway for the Sudan strain, but until that time, health authorities received congratulations for their swift actions, and were thanked for the “lessons learned.””

-via Good News Network, 1/19/23

#united states #africa #chad #uganda #cancer #cw cancer #infectious diseases #parasite #ebola #sudan #west africa #india #healthcare #disease prevention #global health #good news #hope

[eatclean-bewhole]

#nutrition #phytonutrients #polyphenols #disease management #disease prevention #Disease fighting #antiinflammatory #cancerfighting #eat the rainbow

[stuffbymail]

as a connoisseur of melancholy mid-2000s JRPGs I’m really excited for more people to get to play P3. have an aigis because I love her

#persona #p3 #persona 3 #aigis #mails art #fanart #ITS BEEN FOUR MONTHS NO NEW ART… #I have a disease called college student that prevents me from drawing or feeling motivation to draw #but I’m hoping to draw way more this sem

[plaguedocboi]

Okay serious question. How bad are mosquito bites to most people? Because I always considered them a minor annoyance that I don’t even really notice 90% of the time, but people talk about them like they are the Worst Thing To Ever Happen and having itchy bumps on their body justifies hatred and destruction of an entire species of animal. Are mosquito bites actually that bad? Have I just become numb to it because I attract any bug in a mile radius?

#assuming disease isn’t an issue. bc obviously they can carry disease but that’s not like their fault #we should be more concerned about treatment and prevention than hatred against a species of small bug