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Do vaccines against pneumonia protect you against COVID-19? 预防肺炎的疫苗能预防COVID-19吗?

Vaccines against certain pneumonias, such as influenza, pneumococcal vaccine and Haemophilus influenza type B (Hib) vaccine, do not provide protection against the new coronavirus. However, these vaccines are important especially if you have some medical conditions that would make you vulnerable to these infections (e.g. elderly, immunocompromised patients, or some patients with certain lung or heart conditions). We are glad that some of these vaccines are covered by MOH’s National Adult Immunisation Schedule (NAIS), and you can discuss with your primary care doctor to learn more.




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COVID-19 appropriate disinfectants use educational leaflet

Find out more on how to maintain good personal hygiene and keeping our environment clean!




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Is the antimalarial agent Chloroquine effective for the treatment of COVID-19? 抗疟药氯喹对COVID-19的治疗有效吗?

The Take-Home Points:

Antimalarials like chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are currently being studied for their effectiveness and safety when used to treat COVID-19. While Chloroquine may be purchased from a licenced pharmacist in Singapore for the prevention of malaria, we do not recommend self-medication for treatment of COVID-19 without proper medical assessment and evaluation. If you suspect that you could have COVID-19 infection or experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, seek medical attention immediately.

关键点:

抗疟疾药(如氯喹和羟基氯喹chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine)目前正用於治疗COVID-19时有效性和安全性的研究。虽然可以从本国药剤师那里购买氯喹来预防疟疾,但我们並不建议您在没有适当医生检验的情况下自行用药治疗COVID-19。如果您怀疑自己可能感染了COVID-19或出现了相关症状,请立即就医。




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Are soap-free cleansers effective for the removal of coronovirus during hand washing?

There is currently no specific study published that addresses this specific question. 

However, there is a wealth of data from various studies on washing with soap (with or without antibacterial agents) on other microbes to suggest that the act of washing with soap and water is an effective measure to reduce contamination and aid infection prevention strategies to stay well.

Of notable mention, one study evaluated the efficacy of soap and water versus alcohol-based hand-rub preparations against live H1N1 influenza virus on the hands of human volunteers. It found that both methods were highly effective in reducing influenza A virus on human hands. In the study, the soap used was with a non-medicated liquid soap (pH-balanced, with emollient and moisturiser, but not containing sodium lauryl sulfate, instead contains other surfactants), which was found to be effective in reducing viral load from the hands after washing for 40 seconds.

Using soap to wash hands is more effective than using water alone, and is postulated because the surfactants in soap lift soil and microbes from skin, and people tend to scrub hands more thoroughly when using soap, which further removes germs.

Thus from the above information, it would be expected that use of such cleansers should still work, esp. for selective individuals with eczema or sensitive dry hands, where frequent hand-washing may increase existing irritation and compromise the skin barrier. The WHO 20-second hand washing technique should be used regardless of the type of soap for effective cleaning.




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Pharmacists in COVID-19 Pandemic

An exclusive supplementary bulletin on what goes behind the scene in the pharmacies that are at the forefront in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Kudos to our pharmacists and pharmacy technicians working tirelessly to ensure that everything is still business as usual for our patients and fellow healthcare workers.




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Do Supplements Work for COVID-19 Prevention or Treatment?

Take home message

Supplements work best if a person has a specific deficiency or need. If you are unsure whether you require a supplement, always speak to your doctor or pharmacist.

Currently there are no supplements that have been proven to treat or prevent COVID-19 infections. In this article, we will discuss some commonly used supplements that are marketed to have immune boosting effects and their presumed effects on common respiratory infections (eg common cold, influenza and pneumonia).


1 – Vitamin C




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Clip-on Devices and COVID-19 Prevention?

Several clip-on devices have been marketed to have protective effects against viruses and bacteria. They claim to release chlorine dioxide and reach concentrations around 0.017 ppm (parts per million)  to create a protective barrier for the user, although the exact mechanism of this release is not specified.




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COVID-19 Vaccination Updates: Clinical and Regulatory Perspectives by IDSIG




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Update on Oral Antivirals for COVID-19 Management




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Complimentary coverage for Covid-19 vaccination side effects

BERJAYA SOMPO INSURANCE BERHAD (Berjaya Sompo) is set to provide complimentary daily hospitalisation income benefits to all SOMPO Health, SOMPO MedicNow, and SOMPO CashNow policyholders to help them navigate uncertainties from possible side effects of Covid-19 vaccination.

Berjaya Sompo policyholders who are covered under the above-mentioned policy can claim up to RM1,000 if they are required to be hospitalised resulting from sickness due to Covid-19 vaccination as advised by a medical practitioner.

Berjaya Sompo has three individual insurance products that cater to different needs - SOMPO Health offers comprehensive medical insurance coverage with higher annual limits up to RM500,000 from as low as RM2.50 per day.

SOMPO MedicNow is a medical insurance that provides coverage for hospitalisation, surgical expenses, kidney dialysis, cancer treatment, and other related benefits up to RM100,000 annual limit from as low as RM1.20 per day. SOMPO CashNow is ideal for customers with a lower budget as it offers basic insurance coverage for death and bodily injury resulting from accident, daily hospitalisation income as a result of injury or illness, and hospitalisation allowance due to Covid-19 from as low as RM0.31 per day.

Berjaya Sompo is committed to caring for and protecting Malaysians who are facing temporary financial setbacks during these challenging times. The brand remains steadfast in providing the necessary health insurance protection for its customers during this pandemic.

For more details on SOMPO Health, policyholders are advised to contact their servicing agents or visit www.berjayasompo.com.my. For SOMPO MedicNow and CashNow which are exclusively available online, you can visit https://online.berjayasompo.com.my/medicNow/ and https://online.berjayasompo.com.my/cashNow/ respectively.




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‘With a hundred men we can move a mountain:’ How an Airbnb host’s love of her job made movie magic. And changed lives

What gets you going? From the moment Alison von During set up her Airbnb in the studio apartment and private, leafy patio of her newly-acquired house in Vredehoek, on the slopes of Table Mountain, this was the question that drove...




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Zendaya, Tom Holland in cast for Christopher Nolan's next movie

Celebrity couple Tom Holland and Zendaya are the highlight names in the cast for Academy Award-winning director Christopher Nolan's next movie.




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Lovi Poe launches 1st makeup collection

Actress Lovi Poe launched her debut makeup collection under local cosmetics line Ready Set Glow.




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Salman Khan took only Rs 1 for movie Phir Milenge

Producer Shailendra Singh shared that Salman Khan voluntarily played the role to spread awareness about AIDS.



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Maryam Nawaz approves increase in provincial border posts, grants Rs1b to police

Special training for officers and provision of armoured vehicles were key directives from the Punjab CM today




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Countrywide poliovirus tally soars to 45 after two new cases detected

Health worker giving polio drops to a child in a city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. — UNICEF/ FileNIH says two new cases of wild poliovirus are of type 1.Poliovirus crippled a girl, boy in Lakki Marwat, DI Khan.Balochistan reports highest number of cases this year.



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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 11/11/2024

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Deadpool & Wolverine' tops the chart, followed by 'Joker: Folie à Deux'. 'The Substance' completes the top three.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.




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Djokovic shut out in new Grand Slam era

He has failed to win a single Grand Slam title this year




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Ariana Grande lauds ‘always adorable' Ethan Slater amid movie 'Wicked'

Ariana Grande lauds ‘always adorable' Ethan Slater amid movie 'Wicked'

Ariana Grande has shared insight into her beau, Ethan Slater's, supportive attitude towards her.

At the Los Angeles premiere of the Wicked, Grande, who portrayed the role of Glinda, candidly shared with...




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'We honour his sacrifice': Dr Usama's fight against COVID-19

It is a national tragedy and we will award him the status of national hero, says G-B CM




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K-P wants revival of tourism hit hard by Covid

CM Mahmood Khan orders early opening of provincial tourism authority




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BFA "Together We Roll" - Full Movie



Together We Roll from Geisi on Vimeo.




The BFA-Crew has worked on their BMX Movie "Together We Roll" by Christian Geisenberger for the last two years, for which the guys traveled to Prague, Copenhagen, Vienna, Hamburg, Budapest, Paris and a lot of more european cities. The Ambition for the Video was mainly to ride so much BMX as possible, to travel and having a great time! The guys put so much energy and motivation into their Video that you'll definitely not be disappointed! Our bro and Sonthofen local André Bodlin got btw his own part, which will absolutely blow your mind!
Check their Mixtape right here!


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Israel smidt ud af Eurovision: Anklager om folkedrab i strid med konkurrencereglerne

Efter et anonymt tip om Den Internationale Domstols igangværende undersøgelser om formodet Folkedrab begået af Israel har EBU øjeblikkeligt udelukket den israelske deltager fra at deltage i aftenens finale. 

Indlægget Israel smidt ud af Eurovision: Anklager om folkedrab i strid med konkurrencereglerne blev først udgivet på RokokoPosten.




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Catholic Woman Awarded $12.7 Million in Religious Discrimination Lawsuit Over COVID Vaccine

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TomTom to Provide Geocoding for Hotel Search Platform trivago

TomTom to Provide Geocoding for Hotel Search Platform trivago




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Movie Review: 'Gladiator II,' with Denzel Washington, goes back into the arena

Rome teeters on the brink in Ridley Scott's "Gladiator II." Its fall is said to be imminent. The dream it once symbolized is dead. The once high-minded ideals of the Roman Empire have deteriorated across a venal land now ruled by a pale-faced emperor.




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Georgetown falls in Cooley's return to Providence as Hoyas coach

Devin Carter scored 11 of his 29 points in the last two minutes, including seven in a row as Providence came from behind to give former coach Ed Cooley a hostile welcome back and beat Georgetown 84-76 on Saturday.




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Mitre provides update on space race for the next president

The White House should not overlook the complex opportunities and challenge of space now and in the future, according to a new "Presidential Transition: Priority Topic Memo" released by Mitre, a nonprofit group established in 1958 and focused on national security, aerospace, artificial intelligence and more.




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Titleholder Novak Djokovic withdraws from ATP Finals due to injury

Novak Djokovic won't defend his ATP Finals title after ruling himself out on Tuesday due to an unspecified injury.




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Undefeated and new look Indiana provides Maryland's biggest challenge to date

Last season, Maryland beat Indiana so bad that the Hoosiers fired their offensive coordinator less than 24 hours later. How much things can change in just one year, as Indiana is at 4-0 in 2024 as they await the Terrapins on Saturday.




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4K Ultra HD movie reviews: 'Signs' and 'Cowboys and Aliens'

Here's a look at a pair of movies -- "Signs" and "Cowboys and Aliens" -- debuting on the ultra-high definition format featuring hostile extraterrestrials on Earth.




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Loving God-Eating Meat

Understanding modern vegetarianism and veganism in the Jewish and Christian contexts. It is right to kill and eat animals or use them in ceremonies?




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NBA suspends Embiid three games for shoving columnist

Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid was suspended by the NBA on Tuesday for three games without pay for shoving a member of the media.




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Jury awards $12 million to woman fired after refusing to get COVID-19 vaccine

A jury awarded more than $12 million Friday to a woman who lost her job at a Michigan insurance company after declining to get a COVID-19 vaccination.




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Growing pollution in Pakistan's Punjab province has sickened 1.8M people in a month, officials say

Worsening air pollution sickened an estimated 1.8 million people in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province in the past month, health officials said Tuesday, as schools across the province were ordered to close for five days to protect children's health.




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New "LinkOut" tool by National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) providing easy link to PubMed and GenBank data

A new "LinkOut" feature introduced by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) NCBI’s allows the easy linking to content on PubMed and GenBank.  Dryad has already introduced the feature benefitting from easy and fast linking of associated content to the two resources.

PubMed and GenBank, from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), are hugely popular resources for searching and retrieving article abstracts and nucleotide sequence data, respectively.  PubMed indexes the vast majority of the biomedical literature, and deposition of nucleotide sequences in GenBank or one of the other INSDC databases is a near universal requirement for publication in a scientific journal. LinkOut allows the data from an article to be distributed among repositories without compromising its discoverability.

Dryad, intends to expand on this feature in a couple of ways. First, it is planned to make Dryad content searchable via the PubMed and GenBank identifiers, which because of their wide use will provide a convenient gateway for other biomedical databases to link out to Dryad.  Second, open web standards will be used to expose relationships between content in Dryad and other repositories, not just NCBI.

Original source: Dryad news and views





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A new article provides a decadal view on the importance and future of biodiversity informatics

A new article "A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities"  published by BMC Ecology focuses on the challenges and perspectives for biodiversity informatics after a decade of development. The authors Alex Hardisty and Dave Roberts alongside 77 contributions from the biodiversity informatics community share experience and set future directions of biodiversity informatics as a tool for addressing conservation and ecological issues.

Biodiversity informatics plays a central enabling role in the research community's efforts to address scientific conservation and sustainability issues. This community consultation paper positions the role of biodiversity informatics, for the next decade, presenting the actions needed to link the various biodiversity infrastructures invisibly and to facilitate understanding that can support both business and policy-makers. The community considers the goal in biodiversity informatics to be full integration of the biodiversity research community, including citizens’ science, through a commonly-shared, sustainable e-infrastructure across all sub-disciplines that reliably serves science and society alike.

The full text of the article can be accessed here.





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Policy windows for the environment: Tips for improving the uptake of scientific knowledge

A new EU BON derived paper looks at the dynamics of science - policy dialogue, offering tips for improving the uptake of scientific knowledge.

Scientific knowledge is considered to be an important factor (alongside others) in environmental policy-making. However, the opportunity for environmentalists to influence policy can often occur within short, discrete time windows. Therefore, a piece of research may have a negligible or transformative policy influence depending on when it is presented.

These ‘policy windows’ are sometimes predictable, such as those dealing with conventions or legislation with a defined renewal period, but are often hard to anticipate. We describe four ways that environmentalists can respond to policy windows and increase the likelihood of knowledge uptake: 1) foresee (and create) emergent windows, 2) respond quickly to opening windows, 3) frame research in line with appropriate windows, and 4) persevere in closed windows. These categories are closely linked; efforts to enhance the incorporation of scientific knowledge into policy need to harness mechanisms within each.

In their new reseach the authors illustrate the main points with reference to nature conservation, but the principles are widely applicable. The open access paper is available here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901117302095

Read also the article published on it by the British Ecological Society: http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/windows-opportunity-influence-policy-four-tips-improve-uptake-scientific-knowledge/

 





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GEO Data Providers Workshop

The GEO Data Providers workshop will take place from 20-21 April in Florence, Italy.

The First GEO Data Providers workshop was held as a side event during the GEO-XIII Plenary in St. Petersburg, to strengthen the dialogue with data providers in order to improve the discoverability, accessibility and usability of GEOSS resources by GEOSS users. Given the high level of interest and success of the first workshop, a more comprehensive event of two days will be hosted by the Italian, National Research Council (CNR) in Florence, Italy, in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA).

More information to follow.





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Where the movie lovers are: A guest post by Matt St. John and Zachary Zahos

A crowd lined up for a screening at the 2024 Wisconsin Film Festival (Source: Wisconsin Film Festival Facebook) KT here: About a month ago, August 17 to be precise, Variety published an essay by Owen Gleiberman. In it he decries the fact that while national grosses of mainstream films, especially blockbusters, have been recovering from […]





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Can biodiversity monitoring schemes provide indicators for ecosystem services?




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An assessment of soil erosion prevention in Mediterranean Europe: current trends of ecosystem service provision





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D1.4 Summary report of operational EU BON services and data provision for the European taxonomic backbone





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Biodiversity data provision and decision-making - addressing the challenges




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Policy windows for the environment: Tips for improving the uptake of scientific knowledge