Commuters in large cities face comparable noise to that of soldiers in combat. Current research shows how short bursts of loud noise affect your hearing, regardless of whether you take mass transit, bike, or walk to work.
The current method for accurately monitoring sleep, a polysomnography, involves the patient sleeping in a sleep clinic, covered in electrodes. With obvious drawbacks to this method, researchers are looking for cheaper, lightweight alternatives that interfere less with patients’ sleep. One such alternative is ear-EEG, here, Dr. Kaare Mikkelsen tells us about this form of sleep monitoring and his research published in BioMedical Engineering OnLine.
With the increasing popularity of “vaping” across the world, a new study from Respiratory Research shows that regardless of flavor, vaping does less damage to the lungs than conventional smoking.
With the arrival of innovative therapies in recent years, elimination of viral hepatitis has become the cornerstone of discussions in the hepatitis community. Here, Tove Frisch, a member of the Committed to Cure coalition, shares her thoughts from The World Hepatitis Summit – a joint initiative from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Hepatitis Alliance (WHA). This year, the summit was held over three days (1–3 November) in São Paulo, Brazil.
Shinyanga is a rural Tanzanian region with an exceptionally high HIV prevalence, located near Lake Victoria and the border with Uganda. Recognising the acute importance of improving and expediting the efforts against mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Shinyanga, World Vision Tanzania, supported by the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, implemented a community-based project to increase antenatal care quality and uptake. This two-year project ran from January 2014 to April 2016.
For people working in refugee camps, secondary trauma, burnout and compassion fatigue can be common occurrences. The Journal of Compassionate Health Care invited guest blogger Emily Hollingsbee to talk about how self-care can safe-guard people against such effects.
In this blog, Thierry van den Berg discusses the importance of the One Health approach for population health and why there is a need for a special One Health collection in the journal Archives of Public Health.