Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network
9 year old calls out McDonald's
Hi everyone, During its annual shareholders meeting yesterday, A 9-year-old girl called out the McDonald's CEO for their marketing practices towards children:…
NCDFREE Europe Challenge
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NCDFREE Europe Challenge: Launched Today!
Hello to you all, Exciting NCDFREE news! Launched today to coincide with the 66th World Health Assembly, is our new NCDFREE Europe Challenge. Watch our new video here… We would love your support in spreading the word – as well…
UDSMA-Ghana Conference: IFMSA
" Under the theme PROFESSIONALISM AND RESEARCH; THE KEY TO ADVANCEMENT IN THE HEALTH SECTOR... The University for Development Studies Medical Students Association (UDSMSA) a member of the Federation of Ghana Medical Student Associations’ (FGMSA) under the…
NEJM | Government's Role in Protecting Health and Safety
Thanks for sharing this interesting article Sandeep. We have had similar 'health and safety', or rather 'health vs safety' discussions about salt in the past with our Food Standards Agency: namely that the UK government had an agency to protect against…
Call for Volunteers: HLA population analysis in Kenya and Ghana
Thanks for the mail.I will put you in contact with someone who will be of immense help. Mr Samuel blankson, email :
Problems of Creating Bone Marrow Donor Registries in Emerging Economies
Dear all, I want to share with you an article recently published in The BMJ by a colleague, Dr. Sushrut Jangi at Harvard Medical School. http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f2976 It's a fantastic case study for anyone seeking to enhance healthcare…
Major Awards | Seun Adebiyi & Gaurav Singal |
Dear Sunny, Thanks so much for sharing this news with the YP community, and congrats to Seun for his inspirational work. Machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) have allowed us to do a wide range of things within our own institution, ranging…
Active transport
Exercise/active transport is not a full proof protection against anything, but it's hard to think of other ways to get a significant chunk of the population doing some exercise on daily basis without using active transport as a strategies. Rural areas do…
| How Austerity Kills | Stuckler & Basu
And if you've read the book and enjoyed it, do share your review with the public e.g. on Amazon! There are always those who might misunderstand the work or be hostile to it on ideological grounds so we should be sure to engage with them in a healthy,…