Oracle's new cloud solutions to help strengthen healthcare supply chains

US software company Oracle has unveiled new healthcare-focused cloud solutions, including specialised supply chain technologies, to support hospitals and clinics that were put under immense pressure by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The new offerings, which aim to drive a more connected patient experience, will help healthcare providers to improve patient care by “optimising planning, automating processes and enhancing visibility across the supply chain”, the company said on Thursday at the Oracle CloudWorld event in Las Vegas.

The solutions will allow hospitals and clinics to improve the quality of patient care, plan more effectively, reduce costs and manage more responsive supply chains, Oracle said.

“When healthcare organisations face supply chain disruptions, it can be a matter of life or death, and that’s why healthcare teams in particular need reliable, efficient and connected supply chain management systems,” said Rick Jewell, Oracle’s executive vice president of applications development.

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Women's rights being trampled by 'deeply ingrained misogyny', says top UN official

The trampling of women’s rights and “deeply ingrained misogyny” are connected in many ways to today’s global challenges, from the proliferation of conflicts to increasing assaults on human rights, the UN deputy secretary general has said.

Amina Mohammed told a UN Security Council meeting on women, peace and security that “despite decades of evidence that gender equality offers a path to sustainable peace and conflict prevention, we are moving in the opposite direction”.

“We cannot separate the perilous state of peace in our world from the destructive effects of patriarchy and the silencing of women’s voices,” she said on Thursday.

Ms Mohammed urged the world’s nations to call out “misogyny as it manifests itself in the abuse and discrimination that women confront on the street, at home, at work, as well as online.”

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Oil prices steady amid tighter crude supply and expected interest rate increases

Oil prices were flat in morning trading on Friday and on track to log a weekly gain amid expectations of tighter crude supply.

Brent, the benchmark for two thirds of the world’s oil, was trading 0.10 per cent lower at $92.29 a barrel at 10.21am UAE time.

West Texas Intermediate, the gauge that tracks US crude, was down 0.12 per cent at $84.41 a barrel.

“Brent seems to now be settling into a new range, perhaps between $90 and $100, a level most may be relatively comfortable with,” said Craig Erlam, a senior market analyst at Oanda.

Investor focus is expected to turn to “the EU’s plan to cut itself off from Russian imports entirely by the start of December, and the potential introduction of a price cap”, said Edward Bell, senior director of market economics at Emirates NBD.

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General who led Syrian bombing is new face of Russian war

The general carrying out President Vladimir Putin’s new military strategy in Ukraine has a reputation for brutality — for bombing civilians in Russia’s campaign in Syria. He also played a role in the deaths of three protesters in Moscow during the failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991 that hastened the demise of the Soviet Union.

Bald and fierce-looking, Gen. Sergei Surovikin was put in charge of Russian forces in Ukraine on Oct. 8 after what has so far been a faltering invasion that has seen a number of chaotic retreats and other setbacks over the nearly eight months of war.

Putin put the 56-year-old career military man in command following an apparent truck bombing of the strategic bridge to the Crimean Peninsula that embarrassed the Kremlin and created logistical problems for the Russian forces.

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Villagers: Myanmar army beheaded high school teacher

The decapitated body of a high school teacher was left on grotesque display at a school in central Myanmar after he was detained and killed by the military, witnesses said Thursday, marking the latest of many abuses alleged as the army tries to crush opposition to military rule.

According to witnesses’ descriptions and photos taken in Taung Myint village in the rural Magway region, the headless body of 46-year-old Saw Tun Moe was left on the ground in front of the school’s spiked gate and his head was impaled on top of it. The school, which has been closed since last year, was also burned.

Neither the military government nor the state-controlled media have released information about the teacher’s death.

Myanmar’s military has arrested tens of thousands of people and been blamed for the deaths of more than 2,300 civilians since seizing power last year from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Why Beirut plays a central role in this year’s Lyon Biennale

When Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath began planning their curation of the Lyon Biennale, in March 2020, the world was just waking up to the dangers of COVID-19.

Naturally, the disruption and damage of the pandemic ended up having a major influence — not just logistically (it was delayed for a year), but thematically.

Bardaouil tells Arab News that the conversations he and Fellrath had with creatives all raised similar concerns. “We’re all so conscious of our fragility and our mortality, how vulnerable these structures we’ve built are — one virus and we’re building from scratch. So there was this sense of hopelessness. But, at the same time, people started to find ways of resisting.

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New Omicron subvariant may cause fresh wave: WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan

Swaminathan informed that WHO is also tracking derivatives of BA.5 and BA.1, which are more transmissible and immune-evasive. As the virus evolves, it is going to become more transmissible, she added.

World Health Organization (WHO) chief scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan on Thursday said that some countries may see "another wave of infections" with the XBB subvariant of Omicron. But the Indian clinical scientist also added that till now no data is available from any country to suggest that these new variants are clinically more severe than the previous ones.

"There are over 300 subvariants of Omicron. I think the one that is concerning right now is XBB, which is a recombinant virus. We had seen some recombinant viruses earlier. It is very immune-evasive, which means it can overcome the antibodies. So slightly that we may see another wave of infections in some countries because of XBB," she said.

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Kidnap and gang-rape of Delhi woman fabricated: Ghaziabad police

The police said they have substantiated the “confessional statements” of the three suspects -- Azad Tehsin, resident of Welcome in Delhi; Gaurav Sharan, resident of Shivam Garden in Badalpur (Gautam Budh Nagar); and Mohammad Afzal, resident of Kaila Bhatta in Ghaziabad -- with forensic and electronic evidences before making the arrests.

The Ghaziabad police on Thursday said the alleged abduction and gang-rape of a 38-year-old Delhi woman was “a totally made up and fabricated case” and arrested three of her friends, who they said were part of the “conspiracy” to nail the five suspects named in the alleged case.

The police said they have substantiated the “confessional statements” of the three suspects -- Azad Tehsin, resident of Welcome in Delhi; Gaurav Sharan, resident of Shivam Garden in Badalpur (Gautam Budh Nagar); and Mohammad Afzal, resident of Kaila Bhatta in Ghaziabad -- with forensic and electronic evidences before making the arrests.

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I had my breasts removed at 28 even though I don’t have cancer

A Florida woman is speaking out about her dramatic decision to undergo a double mastectomy at the tender age of 28.

Stephanie Germino said she signed up for the surgery after testing positive for the BRCA1 gene mutation, which meant she had a higher-than-average risk of developing breast cancer.

“I was already aware there was a history of breast cancer in my family as my maternal grandmother suffered with it twice,” Germino, now 29, explained in a new interview with the Sun.

After receiving the results, she recalled she was “very emotional, but didn’t take it as a death sentence.”

“For me personally, I never really loved my boobs, and I never saw them as a sign of femininity . . . so it wasn’t really a difficult decision to have the double mastectomy,” Germino declared.

According to the National Cancer Institute, about 13% of women will develop breast cancer sometime during their lives, while 55% to 72% of women who inherit the BRCA1 variant will get breast cancer by the time they are 70 to 80 years old.

According to Germino, other genetic factors meant she had an 87% chance of developing breast cancer.

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