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Drop in global deaths from measles

...1 percent fewer than in the previous year. Data on deaths beyond 2000 was not available. The WHO is concen...sles and hopes to cut the number of annual measles deaths to 437,500 by 2005.Africa has about 10 percent of the world's population and accounted for 58 percen...

World Health Organisation Takes a Historic Decision and Approves Treaty to Discourage Smoking

...co Control (FCTC) aimed at curbing tobacco-related deaths and disease on 22nd May 2003. The Convention requires countries to impose restrictions on tobacco advertising, sponsorship and promotion, establish new labelling and clean indoor air controls and strengthen legislation to clamp down on tobacco smuggl...

World Health Organisation Takes a Historic Decision and Approves Treaty to Discourage Smoking

...co Control (FCTC) aimed at curbing tobacco-related deaths and disease on 22nd May 2003. The Convention requires countries to impose restrictions on tobacco advertising, sponsorship and promotion, establish new labelling and clean indoor air controls and strengthen legislation to clamp down on tobacco smuggl...

Hope for 11 million children facing death from illnesses

...ings together crucial elements to reduce childhood deaths and long term disability. It also aims to reduce the 1.4 million adolescent deaths each year. Last year, the number of children and adolescents who died was double the total number of...

Childhood Sunburn Can Lead to Skin Cancer Later

...ncer will be diagnosed in 2003, and some 7,600 new deaths will occur from this disease this year. One way to protect your children is to make certain they wear a sunscreen with a sun protection factor (SPF) of at least 15, and to make sure they use the product correctly.Although sunscreen can go a long way...

Pharmacist’s Role in Medication Error

...ecent study by researchers found as many as 98,000 deaths occur each year from medical errors, fand many of these are medication errors...

Preventing Childhood Deaths

... rate of decline peaked in 1980. About half of the deaths in children under 5 take place in six countries (I...ust 42 countries.// Forty percent of all childhood deaths occur in infants under 1 month of age. Children under age 5 most often succumb to diarrhea, pneumoni...

Traffic Violations Result in Safer Drivers

...rcement, therefore, may contribute to thousands of deaths each year worldwide." As road deaths rise up the global burden of disease, interventions for prevention are also rising up the internatio...

SARS-Free Taiwan to Mark End Phase of Global Fight

...thorities in Taiwan, where nearly 700 cases and 84 deaths over the past three months curbed travel and dealt a blow to the economy, are expected to give a warm welcome to the decision. But with some 200 people worldwide still in quarantine and a good chance that some cases may have slipped through the net,...

Smoking and Oral Contraceptives:

...titute of Health Sciences in England looked at the deaths associated with oral contraceptives use and cigarette smoking.// The women in the study were between 25 and 39 years old. They either used oral contraceptives, a contraceptive diaphragm or an intrauterine device. Follow-up information was available o...

How Much Should Athletes Drink?

...al outcome. The warning follows reports of several deaths from a severe lack of salt in the blood due to excessive drinking known as hyponatremic encephalopathy. Since the cause of the condition is now known, Timothy Noakes, from the Sports Science Institute of South Africa, says it is preventable.// Noake...

How to Improve Life Expectancy

... deficiencies. They found 47 percent of premature deaths and 39 percent of total diseases around the world in 2000 resulted from a combination of risk factors. Some of the health problems that resulted were diarrhea, lower respiratory infections, lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart di...

S. Africa AIDS in 'death phase'

...tarts to plateau at about 33 percent, sickness and deaths are on the increase. Activists say AIDS kills about 600 South Africans each day -- a number that seems sure to grow as more people enter late stages of the disease without drug treatment. Reports have shown, that in one major South African hospital...

HRT: A Difficult Decision

...of them were diagnosed with breast cancer, and 637 deaths from breast cancer were reported. The study found women on all types of HRT including estrogen-only, combined estrogen-progestagen, and tibolone were at an increased risk of breast cancer compared with those who never took HRT. The use of combined H...

Early Detection of Lung Cancer

...th worldwide, accounting for more than 1.3 million deaths a year. Since the disease is hard to detect in early and treatable stages, most cases are found only after the cancer has spread. Five year survival rates are low; in Europe, only about 10 percent of patients live that long. Studies have shown CT sca...

Return of SARS possible this fall

... care systems. In this case, SARS could cause more deaths than did the first outbreak.A quick response from national and international authorities is critical to containing the disease, the report says. SARS disrupted business worldwide but hit Asian economies and people the hardest, the report says. Canad...

Reducing Medication Errors

Around the world, deaths from medical errors are common, people who are hospitalized face the largest risk for medical mistakes.// Studies show in adults, adverse drug events occur in five of every 100 medication orders. A new study led by researchers at Ottawa, shows compu...

Drug Users and Risk of Death

...k of death. Researchers looked at the drug-related deaths in Scotland in 2000 and 2001. Results show 292 drug-related deaths in 2000 and 332 drug-related deaths in 2001. Researchers say, of the 332 people who died in 2001, 65...

The 'forgotten epidemic' killing millions

...-- of those victims died. The vast majority of the deaths were in Africa. "Malaria is something that we tho...-- of those victims died. The vast majority of the deaths were in Africa. "Malaria is something that we thought we had conquered years ago. But more and more...

Sudden Cardiac Death due to inherited Heart Disease

...h day in the United States.// Most of these sudden deaths involve middle-aged or elderly individuals with heart problems. While sudden deaths in young people are rare, experts say they do have a tremendous impact on the medical community and ...

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