Yaws Disease - Making a Comeback After 50 Years
...rted that it would restart its campaign to rid the globe of the skin and bone wasting disease Yaws. The disease affects over 500,000 people globally. Yaws, a bacterial infection, can cause debilitating deformations, particularly in children under 15. A massive treatment program in the 1950s almost succe...Gardasil – Cervical Cancer Vaccine in UA
...is condition and over 2.3 million women across the globe are claimed to suffer from this disease and around 800 women die everyday due to cervical cancer. This break through vaccine is sure to lift the spirits of medical fraternity all over the world. JYT...Missed Vaccination Caused Largest Measles Outbreak in U.S in 2005
...h as school going kids ,health care personnel, and globe trotters and travellers,to comply with taking requisite immunisation against this highly infectious disease .Currently the vaccination rates against measles is about 90% in the U.S. MST...Developing Nations to Get Gardasil at Lesser Rates from Merck Soon
...in a couple of months. Health experts across the globe have been lobbying to make this vaccine available to all young sexually active women, to get protection against HPV which is a sexually transmitted virus. Statistics show that at least 95% women are never get a cervical smear done, without which a po...More Funds To Fight H5N1 – The Deadly Bird Flu Strai
...ted after the January conference in Beijing. The globe is united in the effort to combat the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain, as it is feared that it could mutate into a human virus that could kill millions. Organizers of the Mali conference had hoped for up to twice the amount pledged on Friday, but are h...Telomerase Expression Linked To Body Mass
... test. She investigated 15 rodents from across the globe to determine what level of telomerase activity each species expressed, to see if there were some correlation she could find. The species ranged from tiny field mice to the 100-pound capybara from Brazil. Lifespans ranged from three years for the mi...Global Polio Eradication: A Campaign to Vaccinate Every Child on the Planet
...e glorified in the history books.// But around the globe it’s a different story. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) is arguably the greatest-ever act in the name of the public good. It has taken 18 years of coordinated effort by millions of healthcare workers and volunteers in every country. I...Tobacco Smugglers are Helping Terrorists: WHO
... currently 1.3 billion addicted smokers across the globe of which five million die every year," he said, adding that more than 800,000 people die due to tobacco related diseases in India. The expert said that a blanket ban on manufacturing tobacco products worldwide is not the solution. "Supply has no...Newly Identified Strains Of Chlamydia Trachomatis – A Gateway To New Disease
...ing.' 600 million people are infected across the globe with Chlamydia trachomatis and 8 million are already blind or severely visually impaired. In some parts of third-world countries, more than 90% of the population is infected. Chlamydia trachomatis has a variety of strains; different strains are respo...WHO Urges Hospital Staffs To Use Alcohol-Based Hand Cleaners
...It is estimated that 1.4 million people across the globe are affected by the infections caused by the hospitals, which are mainly spread by doctors and nurses who forget to clean their hands before visiting a new patient. Didier Pittet, leader of the WHO global patient safety challenge said: 'Around 10% ...Women And Africa Top Priorities For WHO
...rests of the people of Africa and women across the globe on top of her agenda. // Bird flu expert and former Hong Kong director of health, Chan was formally confirmed as the new WHO director-general Thursday by the World Health Assembly of 193 member states. After her election, she told the Assembly s...Tallest man to participate in the Guinness day celebrations
...// The Guinness Day is to be celebrated across the globe on November 9th. Xi will be sent to Brazil to participate in the celebrations. His record will be published in the Guinness Book of Records, 2007, which he will autograph in Rio de Janeiro. He will visit Sao Paulo and enjoy a ride with Sao Paulo's ...Low Iron levels in infants lead to brain defects
... age 19 years. Nearly 25% of the kids across the globe are anemic. Another study in the same journal revealed that iron deficiency is more prevalent among kids past one year of age who drank cow’s milk from bottles than those who drank from cup. Dr. Trenna Sutcliffe of the University of Toronto and h...Bill Gates pours in funds for diarrhea treatment reseach
...t. One World will work with partners across the globe including the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research in Bangladesh it was revealed the Organization’s program director Sue Wilson. MST...Supercentenarian Center to study longevity
...ogy Research Group. Around 300 people across the globe are 110 years old or older, however, the ages of only some were confirmed through public documents. According to the foundation, worldwide, there were 76 people who were 110 or older, of which, 66 were women and 10 were men. "When someone reaches t...New guidelines for global heart patient management
...each cardiologists and other physicians around the globe who don't currently have resources available to help treat their patients suffering with advanced heart failure," said Edoardo Gronda, M.D., ISHLT task force chair and Director of Clinical Cardiology and Heart Failure Unit, Istituto Clinico Humanitas...Air travel restriction could hinder flu
... has a role// in the slow spread of flu across the globe every year. However, the Boston researchers have at last documented it: “The drop in air travel after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks seemed to delay that winter's flu season by about two weeks.” “This is the first time that a study's been able to show...Voices of HIV-positive missing at AIDS conference
...ost affected - marginalized communities across the globe such as women, the poor, sex workers, drug users, migrants, prisoners and gay men. "Look at the presence of the big pharmaceuticals at this conference. They dominate the exhibition hall. The scientific and technical sessions sidelined us. That is th......support, he added. Nearly 30 countries across the globe have already signed the pledge or are planning to do so this year. Source:PTI News...