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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...

AMR Awareness Week November 18-26 (Part 3): how can we as individuals help reduce the risks?

Amongst other things, the WHO proposes that “World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) is intended to encourage “best practices among the...

World Antimicrobial Awareness Week November 18-26 (Day 2): the nature of the threat of AMR

So how big a problem is antimicrobial resistance? AMR is unquestionably a growing problem and indeed was endorsed as such by the WHO at...

World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) November 18-26 (Part 1)

Today is the first day of ‘World Antimicrobial Awareness Week’ and we will be publishing a series of blogs during the week, intending to...

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