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Suggestions to reduce global heart disease burden

...accept these measures is to make them aware of the global figures on the potential impact of interventions....

WHO Travel Advice to prevent spread of "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

...tant assessment by WHO in collaboration with three global networks of experts. The new advice is issued as part of a series of measures that will change as more information about SARS becomes available. This is the first time in the history of WHO that such travel advice has been issued for specific geograp...

Guangdong health official says SARS can be prevented and treated

...recover. China is the worst affected nation in the global health crisis which has affected some 32 countries. Total cases in the country reached 1,268 with 53 deaths....

Answer on SARS 3 to 4 weeks away

... syndrome - SARS, accounting for about half of the global total. The WHO teams are working to have access to information in Guangdong province, where the epidemic began in November. // They also said it isn't clear whether SARS is transmitted through feces, urine, blood or a combination and why some suffe...

WHO Declares Vietnam First Country to Control SARS

...ote that a new disease had surfaced of potentially global proportions. He died of SARS later. After Mr. Urbani noted a new disease had struck and after it was dubbed SARS, the WHO determined that it had first surfaced in November in China's Guangdong province in November where officials at the time said peo...

Scientists review SARS

...ound the world immediatelyafter it declared SARS a global health risk on March12. The teams quickly identified the virus that W.H.O.believes causes SARS and the ways it can be spread. Yesterday, the agency added China's Hebei Province tothe agency's list of places to which people withouturgent business shou...

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

... generations to come. This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on,” said Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General of the WHO to the 56th World Health Assembly. “Now we must see this Convention come into force as soon as possi...

Drop in global deaths from measles

... for Disease Control and Prevention has reported a global fall in the worldwide death toll from measles. Measeles is a contagious disease and is the fifth leading cause of death for children under the age of five.This has largely been possible due to improved vaccination programs in Latin America and southe...

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

... generations to come. This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on,” said Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General of the WHO to the 56th World Health Assembly. “Now we must see this Convention come into force as soon as possi...

Key step forward on International Health Rules

The global health community has taken a key step towards ensu...ARS which acknowledged the "intensive regional and global collaboration, effective strategies and additional resources" which have been required to bring SARS...

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

... generations to come. This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on,” said Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General of the WHO to the 56th World Health Assembly. “Now we must see this Convention come into force as soon as poss...

Traffic Violations Result in Safer Drivers

... each year worldwide." As road deaths rise up the global burden of disease, interventions for prevention are also rising up the international health policy agenda, hence more studies such as this one are needed to assess the effectiveness of interventions aimed at curtailing traffic accidents....

SARS-Free Taiwan to Mark End Phase of Global Fight

...on cold, quickly spread to 30 countries, helped by global travel, and prompted the WHO to issue a global alert in March. Its virulence startled the health community which is still trying to establish its o...

In Chronic Diseases - Poor compliance of Patients with drug treatment

...S and tuberculosis combined represented 54% of the global burden of illness in 2001 and are expected to exceed 65% in 2020. "Better adherence will not threaten health care budgets. On the contrary, adherence to those medicines already prescribed will result in a significant decrease in the overall health ...

ICMR along with other International Research organisation with drug development for Neglected Diseases

...in developing countries and account for 90% of the global disease burden however ironically, a mere 10% of global health research is devoted to these diseases.// In a laudable initiative, the Indian Council of Med...

Return of SARS possible this fall

...he national intelligence officer for economics and global issues. It adds that "many health experts fear it could return again in the fall when cooler temperatures return in temperate areas. We remain vulnerable." The World Health Organization, the U.N.'s health agency, fears the disease could become seaso...

Reducing HIV Transmission

...have a justifiable place in the front lines of the global struggle against HIV/AIDS. It is up to all of us to focus on development of equitable distribution and effective use of these agents now....

Lasers for Acne

...itiatives to prevent the development of widespread global antibiotic resistance, the routine use of long courses of antibiotic treatment for acne should be re-assessed." Authors of the study say this laser treatment may be developed as a new therapeutic approach to treating acne. They noted during the stud...

WHO and UNAIDS unveil plan to get 3 million AIDS patients on treatment by 2005

...ound the world are infected with HIV, and that the global AIDS epidemic shows no signs of abating. Five mill... UNAIDS are taking another big step forward in the global movement to increase access to prevention and treatment services. "The lack of HIV treatment is wi...

Reducing Number Of Cigarettes Not Enough

...only complex, but also remains one of the greatest global public health challenges. Given the strong evidence, NCI researchers say the most dramatic health benefits in the next half-century will happen when the number of smokers who quit significantly increase....

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