News
The total number of registered nurses in the country reached 5.63 million
At a press conference held by the National Health Commission on the afternoon of May 11, Xing Ruoqi, deputy director of the Department of Medical Affairs of the National Health Commission, introduced that by the end of 2023, the total number of registered nurses in the country will reach 5.63 million, the number of registered nurses per 1,000 population will reach 4, and more than 80% of nurses have a college degree or above. In light of the actual situation, various localities have carried out the training of nurses in urgent supply such as geriatric nursing, pediatric nursing, intensive care, and infectious disease nursing, and the overall quality of the nurse team has been significantly improved.
Seven departments: The period of pre-collection of service fees for pension institutions shall not exceed 12 months
The Ministry of Civil Affairs and other seven departments recently issued the "Guiding Opinions on Strengthening the Supervision of Advance Fees for Pension Institutions", which clearly states that pension institutions that adopt the method of advance fees should be publicized and submitted to the civil affairs department. Provincial-level civil affairs departments may, in conjunction with relevant departments, determine the maximum period of advance collection of local pension service fees and the maximum amount of deposits and membership fees, but the period of advance collection of pension service fees shall not exceed 12 months, and the deposit collected for a single elderly person shall not exceed 12 times the monthly bed fee of the elderly.
region
Anhui: Strengthen the allocation of AEDs in public places
A few days ago, the Anhui Provincial Health Office, the Provincial Health Commission, and the Provincial Red Cross Society jointly issued the "Notice on Strengthening the Management of the Configuration of Automatic External Defibrillators in Public Places". The "Notice" requires that, in principle, according to the ratio of 10 units per 100,000 people, automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) should be scientifically configured in public places, and AEDs should be given priority in urban rail transit, long-distance buses, railway trains, airplanes and traffic stations, large enterprises and institutions, factory workshops, city squares, pension institutions, communities, sports and cultural entertainment venues, schools, kindergartens and other public places, as well as emergency vehicles such as police cars and fire trucks.
Ningxia: Implementing the "Six Major Projects" of Party Building in Public Hospitals
Recently, the Steering Committee of Party Building Work of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Hospital issued the "Key Points of Party Building (Guidance) in Hospitals in the Region in 2024", which requires the "Healthy Ningxia, Pioneer Action" as the traction, and the in-depth implementation of the "six major projects" of political guidance, party building pilot, function enhancement, health and clean air, cultural cultivation, and responsibility traction, and lead the high-quality development of public hospitals with high-standard party building.
technology
New targets for the treatment of "superbug" infections have been revealed
A recent study by Professor Zhang Pingfeng's team from the Cancer Center of Wuhan University People's Hospital (Hubei Provincial People's Hospital) verified the key role of DltB protein tetramers in transport and catalysis, and discovered a new mechanism of transport and catalysis of D-alanine in the bacterial cell wall, which provides an important theoretical basis for the development of new antibiotics for the treatment of "superbug" infections. Recently, the related research paper was published in the international journal Nature Communications.
New study: Gene editing therapy improves vision in people with inherited eye diseases
According to Xinhua News Agency, "Lieber's Congenital Maurosis 10 (LCA10)" is a relatively rare inherited eye disease in which patients become blind due to retinopathy. The Oregon University of Health Sciences recently issued a bulletin saying that a gene editing therapy has achieved remarkable results in clinical trials to treat the disease, with about 79% of subjects showing measurable improvement in visual acuity.
international
The U.S. federal government has spent nearly $200 million to contain the bird flu epidemic
According to Xinhua News Agency, the U.S. federal government announced on the 10th that it would provide a total of nearly $200 million in funds to curb the spread of avian influenza on dairy farms in many places in the United States. It is reported that since late March, the USDA has detected the H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in more than 40 dairy farms in nine states. In early April, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a case of human infection with avian influenza.
Kobayashi Pharmaceutical lost more than 3.8 billion yen due to the red yeast rice health supplement incident
According to Xinhua News Agency, Japan's Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. said on the 10th that it lost more than 3.8 billion yen (about 24.4 million U.S. dollars) due to the damage to consumer health caused by health products containing red yeast rice ingredients, and withdrew its previous forecast for this year's sales performance.
Health Tips
There are "three suitables" in summer diet
After the beginning of summer, people are prone to upset, palpitations, insomnia, mouth ulcers, loss of appetite, abdominal distension and drowsiness and other diseases. In terms of diet, there are "three suits".
It is advisable to be light, mainly low-fat, easily digestible and rich in fiber, eat more vegetables and fruits, coarse grains, and eat more sweet or cool products, which are both moist and damp, such as fish, lean meat, duck meat, barley, winter melon, papaya, corn, lotus seeds, lilies, etc., and eat less salty food, animal offal, fatty meat, etc.
Two should be acidic, eat more sweet and sour products, in order to help the liver and stomach, nourish the heart and calm the nerves, such as lotus seeds, lilies, corn, hawthorn, bayberry, cucumbers, beans, etc.
Although it is hot in summer, the diet should still be warm, and eat less cold drinks and chilled melons and fruits, so as not to damage the spleen and yang.
Today's weather
From 20 o'clock on May 12 to 20 o'clock on the 13th, there were moderate to heavy rains in parts of northwest Heilongjiang, southeastern Fujian, southeastern Yunnan, southeastern coastal Guangxi, Hainan Island and other places, among them, there were heavy rains in parts of southeastern Yunnan and central and eastern Hainan Island; There is sleet in the high-altitude areas of eastern Tibet.
Editor: Qin Mingrui
Review: Xu Bingnan