(2023-02-13). Mayo Clinic opens patient information office in India. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A Mayo Clinic concierge assists a visitor. MUMBAI, India — Mayo Clinic has opened a patient information office in Mumbai to assist patients who wish to make appointments at Mayo Clinic locations worldwide. The office staff, fluent in Hindi and English, will help patients, their families and physicians who refer patients to make appointments at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota; Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona; Jacksonville, Florida; and Mayo Clinic Healthcare in London. "We are pleased…
(2023-02-12). Nation's LNG tanker construction steams ahead. ecns.cn The need for China-made liquefied natural gas tankers will remain high and generate profound changes within the global market landscape, driven by burgeoning demand for LNG in many countries such as India, Japan, France and Brazil.
(2023-02-12). Daily Round-Up | Lula and Biden discuss climate and democracy and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode, we bring you stories of Brazilian President Lula's visit to the US, the continuing drama over the Chinese weather balloon, and the latest from the Indian farmers' struggle…
(2023-02-13). Mayo Clinic opens patient information office in India. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A Mayo Clinic concierge assists a visitor. MUMBAI, India — Mayo Clinic has opened a patient information office in Mumbai to assist patients who wish to make appointments at Mayo Clinic locations worldwide. The office staff, fluent in Hindi and English, will help patients, their families and physicians who refer patients to make appointments at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota; Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona; Jacksonville, Florida; and Mayo Clinic Healthcare in London. "We are pleased…
(2023-02-12). Nation's LNG tanker construction steams ahead. ecns.cn The need for China-made liquefied natural gas tankers will remain high and generate profound changes within the global market landscape, driven by burgeoning demand for LNG in many countries such as India, Japan, France and Brazil.
(2023-02-12). Daily Round-Up | Lula and Biden discuss climate and democracy and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode, we bring you stories of Brazilian President Lula's visit to the US, the continuing drama over the Chinese weather balloon, and the latest from the Indian farmers' struggle…
(2023-02-12). As real wages fall, Indian government remains blind to plight of rural labor. peoplesdispatch.org 
According to the calculations done by the government's own economists, real wages — that is, wages adjusted to inflation — of rural laborers are either stagnating or showing a marginal fall over the past over two years…
(2023-02-12). German Workers Across Sectors Protest Fall In Real Wages. popularresistance.org On Thursday, February 9, public service workers from sectors, including health care, day-care, city administration, public transport, water distribution, universities, and municipal waste management, went on a warning strike protesting low wages and poor working conditions. The protest took place in the States of Berlin, North Rhine Westphalia (NRW), and Hesse, among others, | Over 3,500 people, including professionals from the state-owned Vivantes Hospitals, Charite-Berlin University of Medicine, Berlin Waste Management (BSR), and other public sector enterprises demonstrated at Oranienplatz in Berlin on Thursday…
(2023-02-13). Sri Lankan workers require a socialist strategy to fight Wickremesinghe's class-war policies. wsws.org Wickremesinghe justified already-imposed IMF demands, declared that there would be no reduction in the new pay-as-you-earn taxes, and outlined future attacks.
(2023-02-13). National immigration body honors 15 dogs. ecns.cn Fifteen police dogs were awarded by the National Immigration Administration as the first batch of merit dogs and their trainers were given citation for merit class III, Xinhua reported.
(2023-02-13). Wild giant panda captured in Sichuan. ecns.cn A wild giant panda is captured by infrared cameras walking at Laohegou area of Giant Panda National Park in Pingwu, Mianyang, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Jan. 15, 2023.
(2023-02-13). Reparations United 2023 Unity Tour – Sacramento – The Mission, the Mandate, the Method. indybay.org Laying the Foundation For Local Reparations: A Guide for Providing National Symmetry for Local Reparation Efforts by Kamm Howard…
(2023-02-13). Sunday 2/26: Advice for a Happy Life. indybay.org 6701 East Mountain Ranch Road, Williams, AZ 86046…
(2023-02-13). Consumer Health: Cancer education at Mayo Clinic. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org February is National Cancer Prevention Month, and Saturday, Feb. 4, is World Cancer Day, which is a global initiative to raise awareness, improve education and promote action to create a cancer-free world. This is a good time to learn more about cancer education at Mayo Clinic. Patients with cancer who come to Mayo Clinic benefit from the knowledge of Mayo Clinic's specialists and the integrated approach to treating each patient. Mayo Clinic's approach to medical care means that…
(2023-02-13). World Cancer Day wish from a Mayo Clinic oncologist. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Cancer affects people worldwide, regardless of age, gender or socioeconomic status. That's why Mayo Clinic joins the Union for International Cancer Control and other global organizations on World Cancer Day, Feb. 4, to close the gap and reduce inequities in cancer care. Many marginalized groups and disadvantaged populations worldwide often have limited access to preventive measures, early detection and treatment, which leads to higher mortality rates. And they are often not represented in research and clinical trials. "My hope…
(2023-02-13). What's National Wear Red Day? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org National Wear Red Day is an annual event held each first Friday of February, dedicated to raising awareness about heart disease in women. It's the leading cause of death among women in the U.S. That's why it's crucial for women to take charge and be proactive in their heart health. Women with heart disease more often have delayed or missed misdiagnoses biases, insufficient research, and symptoms and risk factors that are different than men. "There…
(2023-02-13). Mayo Clinic Minute: A surgery option when epilepsy treatments don't work. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org For people living with epilepsy who have tried various epilepsy treatments to control their seizures with little success, there is another option. It's a surgery called resection of an epileptic focus, or resective surgery — where surgeons remove or disconnect the area in the brain that is no longer properly functioning and is generating seizures. Dr. Jonathon Parker, a Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon, explains how this surgery works. Feb. 13 is International Epilepsy Day, a way to provide…
(2023-02-13). France: In the movement to defend pensions, will Macron be beaten? greenleft.org.au Demonstrations in more than 260 towns took place across France on February 11, the fourth day of action to defend pensions, as the Pensions Bill began its four-week debate in the National Assembly, reports John Mullen.
(2023-02-12). In Douma Cover-Up, OPCW's New Smoking Gun Backfires. popularresistance.org In the latest chapter of an international cover-up scandal, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has directly accused Syria of committing a deadly chemical attack in the town of Douma. A new report from the chemical watchdog's Investigation and Identification Team (IIT) alleges that Syrian forces dropped two chlorine gas cylinders and killed 43 civilians on April 7, 2018. | The report received an immediate and from the US Department of State, the British Foreign Office and French Foreign Ministry — the diplomatic branches of the countries that rushed to bomb Syria in response to t…
(2023-02-12). Ukraine Unveils New Suicide Drone (Video). southfront.org Screengrab. Via Twitter. | On February 12, video footage surfaced online showing the first successful launch of a new type of Ukrainian suicide drones. | The drone was reportedly developed by the National Aviation University in Kiev. In the footage, the drone, which is powered by a back propeller, can be seen taken off from an improvised launcher mounted in the back of a mini truck with help from a rocket booster. | Military experts noted that the suicide drone is similar in design to the RZ60 aer…
(2023-02-12). Global Economic Forecast Reveals The Perils Of US Addiction To War. popularresistance.org The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has updated its global economic outlook for the current year and the predictions for the West remain grim. U.S. economic growth is set to slow to just 1.4 percent in 2023. The situation is worse in Europe, where leading EU countries will experience near zero growth. The IMF cited high interest rates in the U.S., as well as the economic shocks of the Ukraine crisis as reasons for the West's economic slowdown. Nonetheless, this only tells a part of the story. | Economic growth is determined by much more than momentary shifts in the world situation. Inflation, wage stagnation an…
(2023-02-12). U.S. restrictions on Chinese property ownership violate international trade rules: Chinese FM. ecns.cn The generalization of the concept of national security and the politicization of economic and trade investment of the U.S. side violate the principles of the market economy and international trade rules, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said at a regular news briefing on Friday.
(2023-02-12). Dying by Killing: The US and its Manifest Destiny. libya360.wordpress.com Marcos Roitman Rosenmann The fear of disappearing as a hegemonic power awakens the survival instinct. The United States (US) has entered a dangerous drift, the end of which puts the future of humanity at risk. If a nuclear holocaust is on the horizon, it is no coincidence. The cultural reason of the West is facing…
(2023-02-12). Evil and "Terribly Normal People" libya360.wordpress.com Rosa Miriam Elizalde The new banality of evil is tourism, capable of turning a Nazi concentration camp, where 200,000 people were interned between 1936 and 1945, into an object of consumption. In Sachsenhausen, near Berlin, more than 30,000 died from disease, starvation, medical experiments, torture or the gas chamber. It was a center conceived by…
(2023-02-12). Wilson Center Think Tank Reloads the US Roadmap Against Venezuela. orinocotribune.com By Misión Verdad Feb 5, 2023 | The recent teachers' protests in Venezuela took place in a climate where, along with the inflationary pressure of the beginning of 2023, they seem to be linked to a type of mobilization that has been gradually getting expressed, at the national level, with unions and other "visible" platforms of "civil society," in the background of the advances and tensions around the government-opposition dialogue process in Mexico. | In the midst of this, the definitive collapse of the "Guaidó project," the reckoning of Voluntad Popular with the G3 [other main parties of the opposition], an…
(2023-02-12). Who will finance pandemic preparedness and response? peoplesdispatch.org Nicoletta Dentico from Society for International Development and Geneva Global Health Hub talks about the recent discussions of the WHO Executive Board on the financing of the organization, and what the pandemic has taught us about funding models…
(2023-02-12). Havana Congress Plans Technological Sovereignty For Global South. popularresistance.org The Congress brought together over 50 delegates – scholars, diplomats, parliamentarians, and policymakers from 26 countries across all six inhabited continents, including Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla. | Following deliberations over two days on geopolitics, climate, finance, technology and trade through panels and keynote speeches, including from Andres Arauz, Clara Lopez and Yanis Varoufakis, the Congress agreed to focus on science, technology and innovation in the next 18 months. The Congress, part of the Progressive International's project for a New Internation…
(2023-02-12). Roger Waters United Nations Speech: Ceasefire Now! socialistproject.ca Roger Waters Addresses United Nations February 8, 2023. | "The invasion of Ukraine by The Russian Federation was illegal. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms. Also, The Russian invasion of Ukraine was not unprovoked, so I also condemn the provocateurs in the strongest possible terms. | "We the people, want universal human rights for all our brothers and sisters all over the world irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or nationality. To be clear, that would include but would not be limited to the right to life and property under the law, for instance, Ukrainians, and for instance Palestinians.