Health experts slam Bolsonaro's vaccine comments

Health Canada comments

Failed vaccine campaigns may lead to polio resurgence, experts warn.

823 Experts have said that the failure by the four remaining countries where polio is endemic to wipe out the disease could cause a resurgence of more than 250 000 cases a year. Polio remains endemic in Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. “It would be a humanitarian catastrophe not to complete polio eradication now that we are so close ... to the finish line,” said Robert Scott, chairman...

Health experts' perceptions about health education facilitators in the Iranian health system: A qualitative study

Background & Aim: Given the epidemiologic transition and necessity of educating to individuals, groups and organization for changing lifestyle and adherence, moreover inadequacy of current educational status, identifying health education facilitators in Iranian health system is necessary. Therefore the current study was done with the aim of explaining Facilitators of Health Education in Iranian...

Health care ethics experts in Canadian courts.

Sitting in my office one afternoon, I received a telephone call from a lawyer many miles away. W ould I consider acting as an ethics expert witness in a civil case raising questions about the ethics of a particular physician’s conduct? The question certainly caught me off guard. I had known several individuals who had acted as ethics experts in litigation and had wondered in passing about the n...

Health experts aim to curb potential epidemic.

cancer on the national health agenda. Doctors do know, however, that some 70% – 80% of cancer patients in Africa are diagnosed with late-stage disease. “Very few patients diagnosed with cancer survive their cancer,” said Innocent Nyaruhirira, M.D., the minister of state for HIV/AIDS and other epidemics in Rwanda. The reasons for such late diagnosis vary, ranging from health care providers not h...