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Bird flu Alert in Kenya after Outbreak in Southern Sudan

...st year Kenya banned poultry imports from affected nations in October saying that arrangements had been made with the World Health Organization for access to anti-viral drug Tamiflu in case of an avian flu outbreak. NLA...

Can 'Designer' Cities Keep Citizens Physically Fit?

One of the most advanced nations of the world today, Britain had to face the embarrassment of being labeled as the most 'obese nation in Europe' last week. //In a recent report by CABE it was brought to light that more than one –fourth of the nation's population can be declared obes...

Accessibility of cancer-treatment is Variable throughout EU

...to their population size, whereas Eastern European nations have fewer specialist units. "This is a failure for Europe," said the president of ESMO, Dr Hakan Mellstedt, referring to thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths each year due to lack of care. In Europe cancer is one of the bigg...

Anti-smoking efforts bring down cancer death rates

...ction in heart attack was found in the neighboring nations without smoke-free laws. GT...

Red Cross and Red Crescent Go the Extra Mile to Fight HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa

...and evolved methods to combat HIV/AIDS, the poorer nations and vulnerable regions are still not able to reap the benefits of the technological advancements due to handicapped reach of these initiatives. Therefore the crux of this partnership is to walk the last mile in ensuring that informational and technol...

Different Techniques Can Help Ease Chronic Pain, Return Patients’ Smile

...s’ missionary work to spread the Gospel to foreign nations fulfilled his heart’s passion for decades, but it left his head pounding.// Beginning in 1998, he experienced severe headaches that eventually forced him to return home. Medicine provided little relief for the Garland resident’s cluster headaches,...

Make Preschool Available To All Kids - AMA

...ed in Italy today, which found that out of 20 OECD nations Australia had the lowest spending on preschools an...r.” The United States, Britain and many European nations spend at least five times as much on preschool as Australia. “We need to invest in the future now....

Obesity on a high in France

...izes.However, this problem is more severe in other nations like the US than in France. The increase in severe obesity needing medical care is stable. "There is a small hope that a favourable trend is starting," Marie Aline Charles, head of research at the National Institute of health and medical research (...

Child death reduction needs five times more funds

...ol of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, last year the nations with highest death rates were given $1.36bn (￡725m), or nearly $3 a child by the donor countries. Around $7bn extra will be required to attain the child mortality millennium development goal (MDG) by 2015. "The current level of overseas development...

The need for cancer warnings on alcohol packaging

...okesman Gerard Byrne, Australia exports alcohol to nations where it is mandatory to have health warnings on alcohol packaging."We actually print the labels here, put them on the alcohol, send it overseas to these countries, yet we don't do that for our own citizens," he said."It's something that the Australi...

Influenza Guidelines of Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong applauded by experts

...ncet on August 22. They have cautioned that poorer nations may not share important information and may not cooperate with the rest of the nations unless there is a fair distribution of drugs. "If this (equitable drug distribution) were to prove...

Obesity on the high

...of starving people worldwide. All of the world's nations -- regardless of economic status -- have failed to...t lack any real nutrition." According to Popkin, nations that had previously enjoyed a relatively healthy population are likely to have an overweight populat...

India and China Agrees to Promote Healthcare Jointly

...year, such an initiative will certainly bring both nations closer. SGRH, a leading private hospital in Delhi, is co-organising the second International Stroke Summit from Aug 17-20 in Nanjing, in collaboration with the International Stroke Society, Jingling Hospital and Nanjing Medical Association. Jian...

Waxing And Waning Of Dengue Epidemics Attributed To Cross-Immunity

... expand its range. Population growth in developing nations is pushing more people into substandard housing in mosquito-infested areas. And the ease of travel brings the virus to areas that were previously dengue-free when a mosquito bites an infected traveler and then spreads it to others. According to the C...

Obesity Hinders Medical Diagnostic Tests

...tyle in the United States and other industrialized nations that facilitates a poor diet and lack of exercise has led to our current obesity crisis. In the short term, the medical community must accommodate these patients by investing in technology to help them,' Dr. Uppot explained. In the long term, this ...

Inculcating Positive Thoughts Could Eliminate Depressive Mood

...isation says 15 percent of people in most affluent nations suffer from severe depression. While antidepressants are commonly used to treat the disease, they work for as little as 30 percent of the population, according to studies that link standard antidepressant medications to higher rates of suicide, vio...

Health Minister Ramadoss Honoured for his Exemplary Work

...alth and Family Welfare as "a model to which other nations may aspire" and given it the award for Exemplary Leadership by a Government Ministry. Ramadoss received the Luther L. Terry Award, named after a former US surgeon general who authored a landmark 1964 report connecting tobacco use to lung cancer and...

Global Health Issues To Take Priority In The Current G8 Summit In Russia

The Group of Eight (G8) industrialised nations summit, which begins on Saturday in St. Petersburg, Russia, is to have the global health issues high on its list// of priority. Gennady Onishchenko, Russia's chief public health officer, addressing the press stated that the G8 members would be sign...

India To Fight Spread Of Health Care-Associated Infections

India today joined other nations in a campaign to fight spread of health care-associated infections which affect hundreds of millions of patients worldwide. // A statement pledging India's support was signed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in the presence of World He...

Indian Health Ministry Bags US Award for Health Promotion and Tobacco Control

...r Society, the ministry "is a model to which other nations may aspire". "The ministry has demonstrated its unrelenting stance on health promotion and tobacco control through its support of a comprehensive national tobacco control policy and an effective FCTC. "The ministry's vision for tobacco control ext...

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