GLOBAL SENIOR The slow and inexorable increase in the number of older individuals, will have a considerable impact on healthcare services. Those over the age of 65 currently travel more frequently and more widely than either their parents or grandparents. Another factor contributing to the problem is the way the globe is now so closely [...]Read more

GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY WHO (WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION) NEW REPORT Global health officials are grappling with a “serious lack” of new antibiotics to fight the proliferation of SUPERBUGS. At present, there are a reported 50 new antibiotics in development to treat superbugs- but only a few are classified as treatments that will add value to the [...]Read more

DOES IT SEEM LIKE YOU GET SICK MORE OFTEN? Then when you were younger? Does it take you longer to feel good again? If you find yourself taking more than your fair share of sick days, or you are constantly fighting fatigue and stress, your immune system may need a boost. Even in a healthy [...]Read more

CLIMATE CHANGE Evidence continues to emerge that climate change is resulting in greater numbers of heat waves and flooding events, bringing more opportunity for waterborne diseases such as cholera and for disease vectors such as mosquitoes in new regions. Climate change will increase deaths from heat stress, malnutrition and the spread of infectious diseases like [...]Read more

CIVIL CONFLICT If a country is on the brink of breakdown from civil unrest, the ability to handle an intense and sudden problem like an outbreak could bring its people to their knees and allow the infection to flourish. Outbreaks can completely paralyze countries. Civil unrest leaves economic and health infrastructures in dire need of [...]Read more