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The grey area of fertility tech being mis-sold as contraception

Chelsea Polis, who won the 2023 Maddox prize early career award, explains how she was sued for identifying a mis-sold medical device and why, in an age of disinformation, researchers and clinicians must call out wrongdoing when they see it. Mun-Keat Looi reports When Chelsea Polis questioned the evidence behind a fertility tracking thermometer, she soon found herself a defendant in a lawsuit. In 2020 Polis, an epidemiologist, was sued for publicly sharing her scientific and regulatory concerns about the marketing of Daysy, a fertility device marketed as a contraceptive.1 The case was eventually dismissed, a flawed paper was retracted from the scientific literature, and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) forced the manufacturer of Daysy, Valley Electronics, to change its marketing language. Polis now advocates for laws to protect free speech for scientists and others. In November 2023 she was awarded the Maddox prize early career award for “her courage in challenging false m

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The European healthcare workforce crisis: how bad is it?

Europe is facing a staggering shortage of doctors and other healthcare workers. Mun-Keat Looi looks at the extent of the problem and what is being done to tackle it “There is no health without a health workforce,” says Hans Kluge, regional director for Europe for the World Health Organization. But this is exactly what the European Union is facing. In 2022, a WHO report drawing on data from over 50 countries showed the overwhelming extent of the health workforce shortage in the region.1 “We could face a crippling shortage of nearly 1.8 million healthcare workers, and the numbers are climbing,” Kluge told the European Health Forum Gastein in September 2023. “In some countries there are just 2.4 doctors for every 1000 people. That’s not a gap. It’s a gulf.” “A shortage of specialist medical practitioners has been identified in 16 out of the 31 countries we are investigating,” says Irene Mandl, head of information and the EURES European employment service unit at th

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Health spending is driving people into poverty in Europe and central Asia

A new WHO report outlines the financial hardship many people fall into because of the cost of healthcare and explains the political tweaks that could help them. Mun-Keat Looi reports “Is it acceptable that people become poor as a result of ill health?” asks Tamas Evetovits, head of the World Health Organization’s Barcelona Office for Health Systems Financing. “Acceptable or not, this is what we see across the European region.” Increasing numbers of people in Europe and central Asia are having to spend so much on healthcare that they don’t have enough money left for their other essential needs so called “catastrophic health spending,” which occurs when the amount a household pays out of pocket exceeds a certain level of capacity to pay. And this is becoming more and more common, says a WHO report published this week.1 “It means that once they’ve spent that much out of pocket they probably don’t have enough left to meet their other basic needs such as food, housi

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The mosquito factory fighting disease

Mosquitoes infected with bacteria are becoming a cost-effective way to stop some of the greatest disease threats in the world, including dengue, chikungunya, and Zika viruses. Mun-Keat Looi visits the sites where these are “made” The stench of pond water is overwhelming. In this room in a nondescript warehouse, millions of tiny dots squiggle across drawer upon drawer of water packed almost as high as the ceiling. This is the World Mosquito Programme’s (WMP) breeding facility in Medellin, Colombia, one of several all over the world. A door opens to another room full of nets. Multiple sleeves, big enough for an arm but tied like a tourniquet, hang from each side. The roof of each net is stained with dried red patches. Our guide points to the top and invites us to peer over as she lifts up a blood bag the remnants of a tasty meal for the 30 million mosquitoes the facility breeds each week (video 1).1 Video 1 Inside a mosquito factory WMP, a non-profit research institute, has

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People reporting night-time symptom thanks to new Covid strains

People reporting night-time symptom thanks to new Covid strains
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