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Nigeria Donates $10 Million to Global Fund's Fight Against Pandemics

... assistance to fight against these diseases, which threaten to circumscribe our progress and prosperity". Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

Hospital Equipment Unaffected By Cell Phone Use

...he ECG lead, was turned off. Technology also can threaten implantable rhythm devices such as pacemakers and defibrillators outside the hospital setting, according to a journal report. The report outlines two cases of retail stores’ anti-theft devices causing people’s heart devices to malfunction. The anti...

Bolivian Glacier Melts, Dangerously Fast

...e loss of glaciers in South America and Asia would threaten the water supplies of millions of people within a few decades, experts warned. And now comes more concrete proof of the highly disturbing trend. Latin America analyst James Painter has found the Chacaltaya glacier in Bolivia is melting fast. ...

Stress Increases Inflammation in Pregnancy, Putting Women at Risk

...ma during pregnancy. Uncontrolled preeclampsia can threaten the life of both the mother and the baby. 'Premature labor in itself in not so bad,' Coussons-Read said; rather, 'premature delivery is the problem as it can have lasting effects on infant and child development.' Premature infants can have health p...

Muslim Nations Urged To Address Health Needs

... wiped out in Western countries, they continued to threaten Muslim nations. He said the problem was caused by lack of funding, lack of vaccine production among OIC member states and concerns over the acceptability and quality of vaccines. "We have much to do as many of the world's Muslims live in conditions t...

Muslim Nations Focus on Halal Vaccines

...adicated.In contrast, the polio virus continues to threaten many Muslim countries," he said. He said Muslim nations should band together to develop and produce vaccines which were halal, or permissible under Islam. "We believe that the development of halal vaccines would break new ground for promoting public ...

Georgia Hit With African Swine Fever: FAO

...e fever, a devastating pig disease that could also threaten neighbouring countries, the Food and Agriculture Organisation said Friday. "This is a dramatic development," said Jan Slingenbergh, senior animal health officer at the Rome-based FAO, noting that the highly contagious viral disease "has been almos...

Humans Could Face Greater Bird Flu Risk, Indonesia Warns

... about 15 percent are aware that the disease could threaten their life," he said. The latest bird flu victim in Indonesia was a teenage girl who died last week....

Vaccine-Induced Autism Victims in the Thousands Will Finally Get Day in Court

...the conflicts of interest they believe continue to threaten the safety of vaccines. Among the concerns cited by parents are the close ties between pharmaceutical companies and government regulatory agencies. A July, 2003 UPI investigation revealed the following: - In two cases in the past four years, v...

Optometrists Support AMO's Voluntary Contact Lens Solution Recall

...ccur, however, it can be extremely serious and can threaten a person's vision. Recently, there have been reports of increasing incidences of Acanthamoeba keratitis. Co-infection with a bacterial keratitis is common both in contact lens cases and on the cornea, which can complicate prevention, diagnosis and tr...

Medical Admissions Test Integrity Under Threat

...ell, today said expensive private training courses threaten to undermine the integrity of undergraduate admission testing for entry into medical school. Media reports today suggest prospective medical students are paying as much as $1,700 to attend private training courses purported to increase their chan...

WHO Launches Yellow Fever Initiative for West Africa

...risk of devastating outbreaks that could otherwise threaten the region and the world," Mike Ryan, Director of the WHO Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response said in Geneva, where the World Health Assembly is convened. To prevent yellow fever infections from spreading into an epidemic, immun...

Number of Children Hospitalized With Type 2 Diabetes on the Rise: Research

...e of complicated and costly medical problems that threaten not just to shorten our childrens lives, but to increase medical spending and medical care use of children and young adults. It also diminishes the quality of life and capacity to make contributions to the social capital that propels a nation such as...

Georgia may Lose Most Pigs to Swine Fever: FAO

...swine fever and the devastating disease could also threaten pigs in neighbouring countries, the UN food agency warned Tuesday . "There is strong evidence that the devastating pig disease African Swine Fever is widely spread across Georgia," the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in a written state...

Galapagos on UN Endangered List

...ds is in danger as booming tourism and immigration threaten giant tortoises and blue-footed boobies unique to the archipelago. The 5,000 species of plants and animals create a vast living laboratory for scientists. There is a wide variety of unusual flora and fauna on the islands, much of it found nowhere els...

California Government to Revoke License of LA Hospital

...e and the federal governments response has been to threaten it with pulling crucial Medicare and Medi-Cal funding. Now the state government too seems to have joined the vicious game. Los Angeles County supervisors were notified by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office today that the hospital would be sent a f...

Toxic Algae Pose New Health Scare in China

...m toxic algae that destroy plant and fish life and threaten humans in the country's latest pollution scare, state media reported on Sunday . New satellite pictures of eastern China show the blue-green foul-smelling algae spreading in Taihu and Chaohu lakes, the Workers Daily newspaper said. The toxic algae ...

Disquieting Slow Down in Heart Disease Deaths Among Under 55s

...thors. But rising trends in obesity and diabetes threaten to halt or even reverse the hard fought gains in cutting deaths from heart disease, they warn. And these trends are much more likely to become apparent among younger Britons first, say the authors.A similar pattern has emerged in the United States,...

WBC Selective About Sugar

...oblem of microbial infections, which can seriously threaten human healthparticularly in patients with compromised immune systems. In fact, Rubin-Bejerano co-founded a company called ImmuneXcite to explore this possibility....

Size and Position of Floral Anther Plays a Vital Role in Pollination

...eractions, even as habitat loss and climate change threaten the existence of many plants as well as their pollinators. The Floral Genome Project is a consortium of labs in the United States and abroad whose goal is to construct a database that will contain comparative data on the expression patterns for a l...

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