warned 1 1

Tag: "warned" at medical news

UN Calls for Pedal Power to Reduce Environmental Damage

...onth. A key UN report released earlier this year warned that billions would face a higher risk of water scarcity and millions more would likely go hungry as damage to the Earth's weather systems from greenhouse gases changed rainfall patterns, powered up storms and increased the risk of drought, flooding ...

Annual Tobacco-related Deaths to Reach 8.3 Million by 2030

...ontrols on the trade, international health experts warned Monday. "The only two epidemics that are encountering a major increase in the next 20 years are the tobacco epidemic and the HIV/AIDS epidemics," said Douglas Bettcher, director of the World Health Organisation's Tobacco Free Initiative. According...

Jharkhand Village Shocked to Know About Its Huge HIV Positive Population

...il Kumar, a counsellor. In 2004, the World Bank warned that the disease would become the single largest c...cy and progress made on prevention. The UN has warned that nations are faced with a disaster, the devastating effects of which go much beyond our imaginat...

China Fears Show Food Export Quality Key: WHO Official

...n Pacific for the World Health Organisation (WHO), warned that countries which failed to monitor food export quality would hurt their economies. "In the long-run, it will undermine the reputation of the economy. Other countries should take lessons from this one," he told reporters on the sidelines of a co...

Dengue Surge in Singapore, Man Prosecuted for Breeding Mosquitoes

...he hotter months of July and August. He had also warned that households found to have mosquito breeding sites would be fined. According to a weekly government report on infectious diseases, the number of dengue fever cases recorded in the city-state last week rose to 381, exceeding 378 infections in a w...

Young Girls Turning to Speed for Losing Weight

...s used by girls as replacements for meals. Herne warned that the drug can lead to binge eating, which in turn would result in eating disorders. There is anecdotal evidence that girls sometimes use speed as a meal substitute. Once the drug wears off the stomach realises it is empty. This induces periods ...

For Bangladeshis, a Nutritious Diet Would Cost 1,700 Pounds Per Week

... A joint report from the UN and the OECD yesterday warned that high commodities prices could last over the next decade, predicting grains would rise by as much as 50 per cent between now and 2016....

EU Aims to Shake Up Wine Industry With Root-and-branch Reform

...roducers. Farm Commissioner Mariann Fischer-Boel warned that the European Union's annual wine budget of 1.3 billion euros (1.8 billion dollars) was currently spent in "a very inefficient way" despite huge challenges facing the sector. "We are now actually losing market share to dynamic producers in othe...

New York, the City That Roars 24/7, is Forced to Quiet Down

...ations approved by the city council in 2005. She warned that noise can cause health problems that range from hearing loss to psychological and behavioral problems. "The revised Noise Code will help make the City that Never Sleeps a little more comfortable for those who occasionally do," the environmenta...

Dinner Guest Recover Bodies in Freezer

...it could have happened earlier. For my part I have warned the police on a number of occasions following aggressive behavior towards me and my son....

Irish Outsourcing of Smear Test may Result in Cervical Cancer Being Undetected

The Well Woman Centre of Ireland has warned that outsourcing of smear may result in cervical cancer being undetected in some patients. It could also lead to lead to inconsistencies in the interpretation of results by Irish doctors. The Well Woman Centre has criticized the Health Service Ex...

Discourage Less Educated Women from Conceiving , Says New Zealand Academic

...d-ranked expert on intelligence. He has solemnly warned that unless the authorities acted in time to prevent the less desirable births, the country ran the risk of dumbing-down its future population. if it does not act to boost the birth rate of its most highly educated women, says a world-ranked expert ...

Africa's Men Urged to Step Up AIDS Fight

South Africa's top female politician warned Saturday that men must get fully involved in the war against HIV/AIDS if the disease is to be defeated. "There aren't enough men who are taking enough responsibility to go for tests and live responsibly, and that kind of (behaviour) compromises th...

Doctors Not Exempt from Competition Law, Australian Commission Warns

...ian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has warned doctors against operating closed shops and told them firmly they are not above the competition law .The Commissionss chairman Graeme Samuel last week brushed aside as untenable the claims that patient care somehow overrode other laws. He also cal...

Botox Offers Via Mail Order Enrages Plastic Surgeons

...ish Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons have warned the public about buying the non-surgical treatments, which include Botox, lip fillers, skin microdermabrasion and facial peels. Says Douglas McGeorge, BAAPS president: "I'm surprised that any cosmetic surgery company claiming to provide quality of c...

Food Colour in Sausages, Burgers Could Trigger Cancer

Food specialists have warned that a dye, used sometimes to colour meat for sausages and burgers, could trigger cancer . The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) recently announced that it could no longer guarantee a safe daily limit for consumers to eat meat with the colouran...

Miraculous Recovery for Australian Child Whose Throat was Speared

...spital, Randwick, for emergency surgery. Doctors warned the family Hugo might have brain damage or spinal injury and could suffer stroke, intestinal infection and eye problems. "I could put my index finger in the wound right through to the knuckle," pediatric surgeon Vincent Varjavandi said last week. ...

Evidence Underlying Repeated Courses of Steroids for Preterm Birth may Be Unsound

Scientists have warned that giving repeated courses of steroid drugs to mothers at risk of preterm delivery may be based on unsound evidence . Babies born before 32 weeks of pregnancy often have neonatal lung disease, a major cause of illness and death. Several previo...

Rivers in China Shrinking Due to Climate Change

...ate change linked to the contraction of wetlands, warned the country's leading scientists. The China Daily quoted scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) as saying after an analysis of aerial photographs and satellite pictures, that the wetlands on the Tibetan Plateau had shrunk by over 10 pe...

Right Foods Could Improve Drug Effectiveness, Lower Drug Costs

...absorption of the drug. Previously experts have warned of the potential dangers of interactions between f...ency and severity of diarrhea." But the authors warned patients against trying these experiments on their own, calling instead for more research to gauge t...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10