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#FYI #US #USA #disease #diseases #AMA #AmericanMedicalAssociation #climate #relisiency

AMA live 24 July at 18:00 (UTC+2): "Will your hospital be able to provide care during a #wildfire, #hurricane, or extreme #heat event? How do you know if your #healthcare facility is ready for a flood or other #extremeweather? Health care facilities need to plan for and respond to a wide array of climate-related #emergency situations so they can maintain care for patients..."

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YouTubePlanning for Climate Resiliency in the Health Care SectorTo register and submit questions visit https://edhub.ama-assn.org/science-medicine-public-health/video-player/18983016Will your hospital be able to provide c...

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Not sure if these people have stopped being #human already. #Technology or #money haven't been the main problems in helping the needy - we have #food and #medicines and #water and #construction material and #money; but still people are #starving or dying from preventable #diseases or #homeless. #AI is not what solves this problem but #empathy

The #foodsystem contributes to #climatechange, #biodiversity loss & #landuse change while chronic #diseases increase. Plant-based #diets could protect planetary & individual #health. In hospitals, #nudging (listing #plantbased dishes first) can improve dietary choices: doi.org/10.1186/s129...

Exploring nudging strategies f...

BioMed CentralExploring nudging strategies for plant-based dietary choices in hospital patients: a quasi-experimental study - International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical ActivityBackground The global food system is responsible for climate change, biodiversity loss, and land-use changes. At the same time, the prevalence of diet-related, chronic diseases is increasing worldwide. A dietary shift to a plant-based diet could protect both planetary and individual health. Nudging can positively influence dietary choices. We investigated how different nudges influenced inpatients’ choices of plant-based menus. Methods A quasi-experimental study was conducted across three consecutive four-week phases at the University Hospital Essen, Germany. In the baseline phase, inpatients chose meals from a standard menu without any intervention. In a second phase, an order nudge was applied by listing the plant-based dish first on the menu. In the third phase, a combined nudge was applied, adding a verbal recommendation to the order nudge. Data from 6,575 inpatients (mean age: 57.3 ± 18.7; 50.6% female) covering 26,949 meal choices were analyzed using logistic regression and generalized linear modeling. Results Independent of nudging, female sex and younger age predicted plant-based menu choices (p <. 001, respectively). Controlling for the effects of sex and age, patients were nearly twice as likely to choose the plant-based menu during both intervention phases compared to baseline (order nudge: OR = 1.95; 95% CI [1.55–2.45]; p <.001; combined nudge: OR = 1.95; 95% CI, [1.56–2.44]; p <.001). However, there was no significant difference in plant-based menu selection between the two nudges (OR = 1.00; 95% CI [0.80–1.25]; p =.992). Subgroup analyses further revealed that both women and men as well as middle-aged (36–64 years) and older adults (≥ 65 years), but not younger adults (18–35), were significantly more likely to select plant-based menus during the interventions compared to baseline. Among both sexes and across all age groups, no differences in plant-based meal selection were found between the order and the combined nudge (all p >.001). Conclusion Centrally implemented nudging is a simple and effective strategy that can increase patients’ choice of plant-based menus, which in turn may promote patient health and contribute to positive environmental outcomes. Trial registration DRKS00036763. Registered 29 April 2025.

Medical wax museum in #Spain showcasing 19th-century #diseases is set to close.
Spain’s wax museum of dermatology, once a treasured teaching tool for medical students, will be closing its doors. Founded in the late 19th century, it contains hundreds of life-sized models of people infected with cutaneous and venereal diseases.
theworld.org/stories/2025/07/1 #globalmuseum #museums

Ancient DNA reveals farming led to more human diseases

"Humans' close cohabitation with domesticated animals—and large-scale migrations of pastoralists from the Pontic Steppe—played a decisive role in the spread of these diseases...We've long suspected that the transition to farming and animal husbandry opened the door to a new era of disease—now DNA shows us that it happened at least 6,500 years ago. These infections didn't just cause illness—they may have contributed to population collapse, migration, and genetic adaptation."
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"Today, zoonoses account for more than 60% of newly emerging infectious diseases."
Martin Sikora, The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia, Nature (2025).
nature.com/articles/s41586-025
#pastoralism #farming #diseases #zoonosis #pathogens #livestock #cattle #domestication #civilisation #animal #husbandry #SettlerSociety #meat #pandemics #IndigenousPeoples

Phys.org · Large-scale DNA study maps 37,000 years of disease historyBy University of Copenhagen
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…Some Americans know the reality of these #preventable #diseases all too well. For them, news of #measles outbreaks & rising #WhoopingCough cases brings back terrible memories of lives forever changed – & a longing to spare others from similar pain.

[I can speak to this personally. The Spanish Influenza (which BTWs did not originate in Spain — much like #Trump labeled #COVID “the China virus”) orphaned my grandmother as a toddler killing both her parents & her baby sister.]