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Growth of Smoke-Free Air Laws Worldwide; More Than 200 Million Found "Fully Protected"

...tion. Tobacco use is the worlds leading cause of preventable death, claiming the lives of an estimated 4.9 million people each year. This death toll is expected to rise sharply to 10 million deaths a year by 2020, due to the rapid growth in smoking rates in low-income nations. The WHO estimates that more than ...

Bush Announces Request for $30B, Five-Year Extension of PEPFAR

...ing them, while millions more are contracting this preventable virus every year." Natasha Bilimoria -- executive director of the Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria -- said that PEPFAR "has made a lifesaving difference to millions of people suffering from HIV/AIDS around the world"...

World No Tobacco Day Focuses on Secondhand Smoke

...n should take to address tobacco as the number-one preventable cause of death. In the United States alone tobacco kills more than 400,000 people every year, and secondhand smoke claims another 50,000 lives. By 2020, nearly 10 million people worldwide could lose their lives every year to tobacco consumption if cu...

Pregnancy and Alcohol - a Dangerous Cocktail Warns BMA Scotland

...he reality is that these conditions are completely preventable by not drinking any alcohol during pregnancy. Th...y can act responsibly and save their children from preventable life-long disabilities. According To Dr Bruce Ritson, chair of Scottish Health Action on Alcohol P...

Iowa to Receive Grant Funding for Youth Suicide Prevention, Early Intervention

...ne dies by suicide every 17 minutes. "Suicide is a preventable tragedy for individuals, for families and for communities," said SAMHSA's Administrator Terry Cline, Ph.D. "This grant is an important part of the solution to preventing suicide in the state of Iowa. Education about suicide risk factors, such as depr...

Muslim Nations Focus on Halal Vaccines

...roducing "halal" life-saving vaccines to eradicate preventable diseases, officials said Thursday in Malaysia . Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, the Malaysian prime minister and chairman of the 57-member Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), said children in Muslim countries faced the highest risk of catching infec...

Major Mental Disorders Cut Life Span by Ten to Fifteen Years

...nd suicide rates, about 3 out of 5 die from mostly preventable diseases, he says. Obesity is a serious problem. These patients often get little exercise, and many take a newer type of anti-psychotic, on the market for 18 years, that can cause drastic weight gains, promoting diabetes and heart disease, Parks sa...

Indoor Air Pollution Biggest Heath Threat

...cooking and heating. According to the UN 5% of the preventable deaths and diseases are caused by the indoor air pollution. This study is based on a new estimate done in each country. Indoor air pollution is the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of air in the indoor environment within a home,...

UN Agency’s Checklist on Health Care Erro

...ly identified, and improving hand hygiene to avoid preventable infections. Unsafe medical injections, with reused and unsterilised equipment, are believed to occur most often in South Asia, the Middle East and the Western Pacific, a region including China, Japan, Vietnam and Australia. In sub-Saharan Africa,...

Today Cancer is the Deadliest Killer

...tor of Public Health and Environment. "Known and preventable exposures are clearly responsible for hundreds of thousands of excess cancer cases each year. In the interests of protecting our health, we must adopt an approach rooted in primary prevention, that is to make workplaces free from carcinogenic risks."...

Artificial Tanning Causes Concern

...y at this time of year to raise awareness”. “It is preventable and it's important to get the message out.” He was talking of a campaign to coincide with the second annual Cancer Prevention Week from April 23-29. "That so many young people choose to expose themselves to dangerous levels of ultraviolet radiatio...

Texas Lawmakers Give The Boot To Cervical Cancer Vaccine

...died due to cervical cancer, which is argued to be preventable by the vaccine in question. “We did not want to be the first in offering young girls for the experiment to see if this vaccine is effective or not,” says Dennis H. Bonnen, a Republican from Angleton, who sponsored the ban in the House. Merck manuf...

Anemia Eradication During Adolescence

...s. Anemia is a silent epidemic; however it is a preventable condition. 12 by 12 initiative for controlling adolescent anemia is an implementable, effective and sustainable nation building exercise with far reaching benefits in terms of safe motherhood and healthier future generations. Source-PIB...

Women Struck By Smoking Diseases

...ucing this health burden,” he says. “As COPD is preventable and treatable, a strong public health message and funding commitment are warranted. “There is a need for higher prioritisation of COPD, including policies to reduce smoking in women, and medical practice initiatives to support primary and secondar...

Smoking on Television is Harmful to the Health of the Nation's Youth: BMA

...alth if she didn’t smoke. Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in Wales, and the risk of disease increases the earlier in life smoking begins. The prevalence of smoking among Welsh adolescents continues to rise, especially amongst teenage girls. The percentage of 15 to 16 year old boys in Wales...

Asian Smokers in Danger

...cco is said to be the major cause of premature and preventable deaths in the world. It is currently responsible for the deaths of five million people worldwide, yearly. Health professionals predict that if current smoking patterns continue, it will cause some 10 million deaths annually by 2020. Half the pe...

Hospital Errors Rise 3 Percent -- HealthGrades Patient-safety Study

...e to rise in American hospitals, with 1.16 million preventable patient-safety incidents occurring over the three ...f 2.86 percent. · 247,662 deaths were potentially preventable over the three years, and Medicare patients who had one or more patient-safety incidents had a one-i...

Campaign To Combat Medical Errors

One in every thirteen Canadian patients faces a preventable nosocomial infection or incident. ‘Safer Healthcare Now’ (SHN) in Canada has been focusing// on six areas which can be worked well to bring beneficial effects to patients in the hospitals. The campaign team has come up with these measures working wit...

Vitamin A Deficiency Leads to Large-scale Blindness in North East

... blindness was the most common cause and the major preventable cause identified during the study. Gpl...

Indian Parliamentarians Join to Fight Against TB

... join the movement in creating awareness about the preventable disease in their constituencies. They have also decided to join the British Parliamentary Group on Global TB, which has been working in this field for some time. "Though TB is curable yet thousands of people die every year due to lack of awareness....

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