Today is World Lung Day
Today is World Lung Day (September 25th) This important day was first conceived and created during the 2016 Assembly of the Forum of...
'Our own Donald'
In many Buddhist traditions it is customary to mark the 49th day after death. Today is the 49th day since we lost Donald Eadie, a...
This is what a Political Declaration on TB should look like...
It remains impossible to get our heads around how little those folk who are unlucky enough to be infected with TB (who also...
Happy World Moxa Day! – with a neurological explanation for why St36 is so effective with moxa
We came across this paper recently, and found it intriguing, and figure it’s worth discussing on this World Moxa Day (May 9th) because of...
The 75th Birthday of the World Health Organisation – and World Health Day 2023 ('Health for All')
On April 7th, 1948, the World Health Organisation was officially formed as a specialist agency of the recently formed United Nations....
World TB Day 2023 – getting back ‘on track’
The optimistic theme of this year’s World TB Day is ‘YES - WE CAN END TB!’ and of course we could do (although realistically it will take...
AMR Awareness Week (Day 7): how can we as individuals help reduce the risks to ourselves?
Well, welcome to the last day of WAAW week, taking note as before of a particular part of the official blurb, this time that “World...
AMR Awareness Week (Day 6): MDR-TB, the existing anomolous AMR pandemic
The emergence and spread of multidrug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MDR-TB) represents one of the most daunting...
AMR Awareness Week (Day 5): the lack of new antibiotics, and the dubious role of Big Pharma
Once again, we begin by quoting a section of the official blurb for AMR Awareness Week: “World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) is a...
AMR Awareness Week (Day 4): "One Health Stakeholders’ Best Practices" – what's that all about?
The WHO state that World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) is intended to encourage (amogst other things “best practices among … One...
