Thẻ: Public health

How about instead of adding a pink ribbon to their products this month, companies actually remove the ingredients from their products that cause cancer.

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Pink ribbons don’t stop breast cancer. Removing cancer-causing ingredients does.

Just a friendly reminder for this year’s breast cancer awareness month.

A growing body of research shows that common agents linked to breast cancer are hiding in plain sight — in the products we use each and every day.

Some of these agents are known carcinogens, while others disrupt hormones critical to breast development and cell regulation. Together, these exposures may weaken the body’s ability to repair or destroy damaged cells, increasing cancer risk over time.

Scientists point to compounds like bisphenol A (BPA) in canned foods, PFAS in cosmetics, and flame retardants in electronics as among the many substances with ties to breast cancer. These compounds don’t just affect people through direct contact—they’re found in air, water, and even household dust, accumulating slowly but persistently in the body.

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Vietnam’s vaccine champion

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PATH.org

September 24, 2018 by Katie Regan

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Dr. Le Van Be, director of the Institute of Vaccines and Medical Biologicals (IVAC) in Nha Trang, Vietnam, is driven by a childhood encounter with rabies to improve the health outcomes of the people of Vietnam. Photo: PATH/Hai Trinh.

Dr. Le Van Be, director of the Institute of Vaccines and Medical Biologicals, believes in the power of vaccines. And he is committed to seeing locally made influenza vaccine become a reality. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam’s vaccine champion” →

One man, 441 people, and a community for healthier hearts

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MAY 16, 2017 |

PATH _ Bringing blood pressure monitoring services to the community is transforming access to chronic disease management in Vietnam.

An animated man leans forward on a chair.
“Most people [still don’t know] the risks and complications related to hypertension,” says Mr. Phu. “Some people might feel dizzy and have a headache. They come to me for a blood pressure check and are surprised when [they learn] they have high blood pressure levels. I then tell them to go to a health clinic to confirm the diagnosis.” Photo: PATH.

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World Bank report on Vietnam’s pork safety sparks concern, doubt

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TUOI TRE NEWS

Updated : 04/03/2017 16:28 GMT + 7

Consumers are seen at a pork stall at a small market in Ho Chi Minh City.
A recent World Bank report claiming that up to 40 percent of pork in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City is potentially contaminated with the salmonella bacteria has raised concern and doubt as to whether the ratio is too high compared with Vietnam’s own statistics.

The World Bank data may not truly reflect the meat safety situation in those cities, according to local insiders.

The report, released on March 27, points out several alarming issues in Vietnam’s food safety risk management, such as the fact that 80 percent of pork is sold in wet markets, and 76 percent of meat is slaughtered in small and dirty facilities.

The World Bank also underlined that the most prevalent microbiological hazard in pork in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City is salmonella, with the bacteria found in 30 percent of the pork samples taken at slaughterhouses, and 40 percent of the pork found on sale at local markets. Tiếp tục đọc “World Bank report on Vietnam’s pork safety sparks concern, doubt” →

Disease: Poverty and pathogens

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  • Michael Eisenstein
  • Nature 531, S61–S63  (17 March 2016) doi:10.1038/531S61a
  • Published online
  • 16 March 2016

The growth of slums in the developing world’s rapidly expanding cities is creating new opportunities for infectious disease to flourish and spread.

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Madina market in Conakry, Guinea. Densely populated urban environments are ideal for the spread of infection.

Nature – As Lee Riley read article after article about the deadly 2014 Ebola outbreak, his frustration mounted. “I was seeing all of these newspaper reports and even scientific reports talking about this unprecedented epidemic in West Africa,” says Riley, a specialist in urban public health at the University of California, Berkeley, “and there wasn’t a single mention of the words ‘slums’ or ‘informal settlements’.”

Ebola is feared because of its high mortality and limited treatment options, but generally it has been limited to remote rural regions. The 2014 outbreak was different: flare-ups in cities such as Conakry in Guinea and Monrovia in Liberia revealed the havoc that this lethal virus could wreak in urban environments. The dense and highly mobile populations provided greater opportunities for the infection to spread. And according to Mosoka Fallah, an epidemiologist who was working with Liberia’s Ministry of Health at the front line of the Monrovia outbreak, urban slums bore the brunt. “Wherever there were big outbreaks, most people being infected were among the poor,” he says. “Those that didn’t have basic sanitation, who had the most distrust of institutions — they also had the most disease.” Tiếp tục đọc “Disease: Poverty and pathogens” →

Food firms failing to tackle nutrition crisis

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By Vaidehi Shah

Tuesday 19 January 2016

Rising obesity and malnutrition are indicators that a global nutrition crisis is mounting, but the world’s largest food and beverage (F&B) companies are not doing enough to solve it, a new study says.

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Candy on a supermarket shelf in Edmonton, Canada. One in three people globally is either overweight or undernourished. Image: Tyler McKay / Shutterstock.com

ecobusiness – Rising rates of obesity and malnourishment indicate that a global nutrition crisis is mounting, but the world’s largest food and beverage (F&B) companies are not doing enough to solve it, a new study says.

Released on Thursday in London, the Global Access to Nutrition Index report found that while leading food firms have made some progress towards improving consumers’ diets, there is much more the sector can do to tackle these widespread issues.

The index, which was first launched by the Netherlands-based non-profit Access to Nutrition Foundation (ANF) in 2013 and is now in its second edition, assesses the 22 largest food companies on how well their corporate strategy, product offering and marketing efforts address obesity and under-nutrition. Tiếp tục đọc “Food firms failing to tackle nutrition crisis” →