Author Archives: health

Bangladesh charges nine with attacking former US ambassador Bernicat’s car

Local activists of the Awami League carried out the attack alleging anti-government conspiracy, according to the charge-sheet. Abdur Rauf, an inspector at the police’s Detective Branch, recently submitted the charge-sheet to Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrates Court, said Zafar Hossain, a deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.     The nine people named in the charge-sheet are Naimul… Read More »

Study finds link between coronavirus mortality risk and obesity

The World Obesity Foundation released a new study Thursday that found a link between a country’s COVID-19 mortality and obesity prevalence in its population.  The researchers found “high mortality rates only in countries where overweight prevalence exceeds around 50% of the adult population.” “Globally, at the end of 2020, COVID-19 mortality rates were more than ten… Read More »

The Most Relevant Companies in Health Care – Learning From the W2O Group

Five years ago, in 2016, the W2O Group said that, “Relevance is reputation.” That year the firm began to study the relevance of, well, relevance for organizations especially operating in the health/care ecosystem. 2020 changed everything, the W2O team asserts, now issuing its latest look into the issue through the Relevance Quotient. Relevance is built… Read More »