(2024-01-03). Country's tourism market off to a robust start in 2024. ecns.cn China's tourism market got off to a robust start in 2024, with the just-concluded New Year's Day holiday witnessing a surge in travel to domestic and overseas destinations, surpassing pre-pandemic levels in both visitor numbers and revenue.
(2024-01-02). Life Expectancy in US Climbed After Declines Related to COVID-19. jamanetwork.com US life expectancy has risen by 1.1 years, from 76.4 years in 2021 to 77.5 years in 2022, according to provisional data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. Yet the increase does not cancel out the 2.4-year decrease in life expectancy that occurred between 2019 and 2021, due in large part to excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic.
(2024-01-02). Long COVID in Nursing Home Residents Manifests as Functional Decline. jamanetwork.com People living in nursing homes tended to need more help with activities of daily living, such as bathing and dressing, for months following infection with SARS-CoV-2 compared with their peers who were not infected, a retrospective cohort study found. Nursing home residents also experienced modest declines in cognition after COVID-19 infection.
(2024-01-02). WHO: Surge in Respiratory Infections in China Not Due to New Pathogens. jamanetwork.com Respiratory illnesses—including Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and influenza—have been on the rise among children in China over the past several months.
(2024-01-03). Israeli Assault Causing Disease, Hunger to Rapidly Spread Across Gaza. globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-02). Israel's Genocide Betrays The Holocaust. popularresistance.org Israel's lebensraum master plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazi's depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear. Destroy infrastructure, medical facilities and sanitation, including access to clean water. Block shipments of food and fuel. Unleash indiscriminate industrial violence to kill and wound hundreds a day. Let starvation — the U.N. estimates that more than half a million people are already starving — and epidemics of infectious diseases, along with the daily massacres and the displacement of Palestinians from their homes, turn Gaza into a mortuary. The Palestinians are being forced to choose betwe…
(2024-01-02). Abortions Rose in 2020 Despite Prior Downward Trend. jamanetwork.com The number of abortions provided increased by 5% between 2020 and 2021, with a total of about 626‚ÄØ000 abortions reported in 2021, according to new surveillance data collected by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, abortion numbers, rates, and ratios have declined overall during the period between 2012 and 2021.
(2024-01-02). Phasing Out Fossil Fuels Could Reduce Millions of Excess Deaths. jamanetwork.com New estimates suggest that air pollution might contribute to about 8 million additional deaths worldwide per year, with fossil fuels accounting for the most fatalities. The majority of excess deaths from air pollution, defined as particulate matter with a diameter smaller than 2.5 μm, were linked with cardiometabolic conditions such as ischemic heart disease, stroke, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to results from a model based on 2019 data.
(2024-01-02). West Bank: 5 Palestinians Martyred in Violent IOF Raids. english.almanar.com.lb 
Five Palestinian youths were tragically killed by gunfire from Israeli occupation forces (IOF) during a series of raids in the West Bank. The incident occurred in the Safha area, west of the town of Azzun, and east of Qalqilya. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, known as the Louyouth al-Majd or Lions of Glory, have mourned the loss …
(2024-01-02). ED conducts fresh searches in money laundering case against AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan. muslimmirror.com New Delhi : The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday undertook fresh searches at about four-five premises in the national capital as part of a money laundering probe against AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan linked to alleged irregularities in recruitment of staff for the Delhi Waqf Board, official sources said. The raids are being carried out under …
(2024-01-03). Wuhan hospital fined $7,011 for insufficient real-name verification for pregnant women. ecns.cn Wuhan Puren Hospital in Central China's Hubei Province, which is suspected of involvement in surrogacy practices, has been fined 50,000 yuan ($7,011) and received a warning due to several violations, including inadequate real-name verification procedures for pregnant women during treatment, according to media reports on Tuesday.