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The mainland ushered in the first schistosomiasis control awareness week
Schistosomiasis is a Class B infectious disease stipulated in the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Diseases. Recently, the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention issued a notice on the launch of the 2024 Schistosomiasis Prevention and Control Publicity Week. According to the notice, April 8 to 14, 2024 is the first schistosomiasis prevention and control publicity week in mainland China, with the theme of "inheriting the spirit of blood prevention and accelerating the process of elimination". The notice makes it clear that it is necessary to increase publicity in key areas and key groups, improve the public's awareness of blood prevention knowledge and protection awareness, and jointly implement comprehensive prevention and control measures.
The National Health Insurance Administration is open to select the project undertaking units in 2024
Recently, the National Medical Security Administration issued an announcement that, according to the 2024 project commissioned research work arrangement of the National Medical Security Administration, 14 topics such as big data real-world research on several key issues of medical insurance will be openly recruited from the public. The deadline for application is April 15, 2024, and the list of selected project undertaking units will be announced in May 2024.
region
Zhejiang launched three volunteer service projects of "Passionate Pioneers".
Recently, the launching ceremony of the 2024 Zhejiang Youth "Passionate Pioneer" Blood Donation Volunteer Service Theme Activity was held at Zhejiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. This year, Zhejiang's "Passionate Pioneer" cultivation plan has been upgraded and innovatively launched the "Bloody Series" volunteer service project in colleges and universities. Among them, three volunteer service projects, namely "Bloody University", "Bloody Bank" and "Bloody Panda Alliance", were launched at the theme event.
Liaoning deployed 6 tasks to promote health literacy
A few days ago, the Liaoning Provincial Health Commission issued the "2024 Liaoning Provincial Health Literacy Promotion and Health Literacy Monitoring Project Implementation Plan". The "Implementation Plan" clarifies six key tasks: do a solid job in normalizing health science popularization, do a good job in the prevention and treatment of seasonal high-incidence diseases and related science popularization of health problems of key populations, further promote health promotion actions in rural areas, continue to promote the construction of healthy counties and districts, orderly promote the construction of health promotion hospitals, and carry out health literacy monitoring of residents in accordance with the law.
technology
New study: diet has less effect on the gut microbiota of infants than previously thought
According to Xinhua News Agency, a new study recently published in the American journal Cell Host and Parasite shows that the effect of diet on the composition and growth of infants' gut microbiota is smaller than researchers previously thought, and age plays a more important role. The researchers analysed and found that at 24 months, there was no significant difference in the gut microbiota between the exclusively breastfed and formula-fed groups, and that infant formula supplemented with galacto-oligosaccharides was more effective at promoting sustained levels of bifidobacteria than formula containing bifidobacteria.
Gastric perforation treatment adds a "new weapon"
The team of Professor Fan Chaoqiang and Professor Yang Shiming of the Department of Gastroenterology of Xinqiao Hospital of the Army Medical University, together with the team of Professor Xing Mengqiu, academician of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and University of Manitoba, has developed a natural degradable gastric perforation occluder derived from Bamboo Sun. The occluder can be delivered endoscopically and does not require secondary surgical removal, which provides a new idea for the treatment of gastric perforation. The research paper was recently published as a cover article in the international journal Advanced Science.
international
WHO: Viral hepatitis kills about 1.3 million people a year
According to the "2024 Global Hepatitis Report" released by the World Health Organization on the 9th, viral hepatitis has become the second largest infectious disease "killer" in the world after tuberculosis. According to the latest data from more than 180 countries and regions, about 1.3 million people died from viral hepatitis in 2022, up from 1.1 million in 2019, and 83% of deaths in 2022 were caused by hepatitis B and 17% were caused by hepatitis C.
Argentina has confirmed more than 200,000 cases of dengue fever since the beginning of this year
According to Xinhua News Agency, the Argentine Ministry of Health released the latest report on the 7th, saying that 215885 cases of dengue fever have been confirmed in the country since 2024, and stressed that the outstanding feature of the dengue fever epidemic is "persistent". So far, there have been deaths from dengue fever in all age groups, with the highest mortality rates occurring in people over 80 years of age.
Health Tips
How to avoid acute otitis media
Acute otitis media is closely related to respiratory tract infections, especially if you have rhinitis, you usually sleep with snoring, mouth breathing or breath-holding, etc., and the risk of acute otitis media is higher. Do the following to help prevent acute otitis media.
1. Exercise more, improve resistance, and actively prevent and treat upper respiratory tract infections and respiratory tract infectious diseases.
2. If you have rhinitis/sinusitis, you should actively go to the hospital for treatment. Also, do not blow your nose vigorously to avoid inflammation through retrograde infection of the Eustachian tube and the middle ear cavity.
3. When washing your hair, bathing or swimming, avoid water entering your ear canal.
4. Do not use matches or other sharp objects to pick your ears, so as not to cause damage to the ear canal, which can cause infection and cause acute otitis media.
5. When the plane takes off or descends, you can do as much swallowing as possible to promote the Eustachian tube to open continuously and balance the pressure inside and outside the middle ear.
Today's weather
From 20 o'clock on April 9 to 20 o'clock on the 10th, there was light to moderate snow or sleet in parts of northern Xinjiang and along the Tianshan Mountains, eastern and southern Tibet, central Northwest China, northern Sichuan Plateau, and northwest Heilongjiang, among which there was heavy snow in northern Xinjiang. There was light rain in parts of central Inner Mongolia, eastern Jilin, northern Xinjiang, southeastern Tibet, eastern Qinghai, eastern Northwest China, central and northern North China, Jianghan, northern and western Jiangnan, northern Sichuan Plateau, northeast of Southwest China, most of Chongqing, northwest Yunnan, Hainan Island, Taiwan Island and other places, among which, moderate rain in parts of northern Shanxi and northern Sichuan Basin.
Editor: Guan Zhongyao
Review: Qin Mingrui, Xu Bingnan