The risks of bird flu epidemic remain. Its transmission among humans is still being examined as a new transmission finding was alarming. Recently, a Chinese man had been infected with the H5N1 virus coming from contaminated birds. Soon after, his...
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In terms of statistic, global abortion numbers have dipped a bit from 46 million in 1995 to 42 million in 2003 but the rate of unsafe abortions remains high, especially in developing countries like India and Pakistan. To be precise, about half of all.
Popular for being the Hollywood diet, or the so-called 'fad diet,' the grapefruit though is known to reduce insulin levels, affecting blood sugar regulation, excessive of it may risk breast cancer!
Yes, the US researchers warn that eating the...
Neuroscientists in a recent report have said that moderate drinking has a positive effect on the mental health of a person. Moderate consumption, is frequently defined as the consumption of one to four alcoholic drinks in a day, depending to a large..
In US alone, astonishingly there were a total of 553,400 cancer deaths in 2001, according to the American Cancer Society.
But, this scary figure was only to rise through years, especially with cardiovascular disease as the number one cause of death...
The already poverty-and-drought-hit West Africa witnesses the sufferings of 25,000 to 2,00,000 people from meningitis epidemic every year.
Its spatial distribution is thus named "Meningitis Belt" -- and are said to be closely linked to climatic...
When the world is terrorized with H5N1 avian flu virus and other emerging new infections, the health watchdogs need to get equipped with a quicker detection procedure. Cuing on this line of concern, U.S. researchers have developed a new device –...
The number of patients with deadly cancer is likely to double by the year 2030, especially in poorer countries. The director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer threw up this shocking prediction.
The agency, which is a part of World...
For years, global program, aimed at keeping the spread of tuberculosis bacteria checked, is on the move. However, the recent spread of a particular form of tuberculosis in South Africa has raised question that how far we have we have been successful in...
Just two months and nearly 16,000 cases of meningitis, including 1,670 deaths, in Africa. This dreary revelation by the World Health Organization (WHO) has come questioning the health situation in these countries.
However, WHO with the help of other..
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