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A new campaign has been launched in the U.K. a bid to reduce deaths from lung cancer. The Be Clear on Cancer lung cancer scheme is aimed at the over 50s because they are most at risk of the disease, which claims 28,000 lives a year in England - sometimes because it is often diagnosed too late. The campaign encourages people to not ignore a persistent cough, as this is often a main symptom. Other symptoms...
July 3, 2013
HEALTH -CARE - The percentage of people under age 65 in families having problems paying medical bills decreased from 21 .7 percent in the first six months of 2011 to 20.3 percent in the first six months of 201 2, according to a report from the -Center for Disease Control's - National Center for Health Statistics. The report, "Problems Paying Medical Bills: Early Release of Estimates from the -National...
July 1, 2013
The dog days of summer are here already, and in -San Antonio-, along with the summer comes extreme temperatures. One of the biggest threats posed to children during this time is heat stroke. Playing outside in the sun and the heat can easily make your children sick. Even swimming in a pool, kids can become dehydrated and suffer heat stroke. Brian Bates-, the director of medical services at -Methodist...
June 30, 2013
Vienna (dpa) - New drugs that evade legal bans are being developed at such a rate that they now outnumber illegal substances, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said Wednesday in Vienna. Such "legal highs" mimic the effects of existing drugs like amphetamine, cannabis or khat but can be far more dangerous, as little is known about their side effects and their potential to cause addiction, the...
June 26, 2013
SARS used to be a big deal before it was contained. Now a new virus, MERS-CoV, has taken center stage. The virus, found mainly in the -Middle East- (particularly Saudi Arabia) and a few cases in -Europe- (-United Kingdom-, -France-, and -Italy-), is luckily not yet a threat to the U.S., despite returning American troops and other travelers. The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (-MERS -...
June 26, 2013
Luxembourg (dpa) - Graphic warnings on tobacco products and a phase-out of menthol cigarettes on Friday moved a step closer to becoming reality in the European Union, after health ministers struck a deal on the contentious new measures meant to curb smoking. "We cannot have a situation where we have a product that kills 700,000 Europeans every year, looking to replace those customers with children...
June 21, 2013
Bangkok (dpa) - Health officials in the US and Europe may soon be visiting South-East Asia for updates on the most effective means of fighting dengue fever, traditionally a poor countries' disease. A dengue outbreak was reported at the beginning of this year in Madeira, Portugal, and in 2010 there were cases of dengue recorded in Nice, France. In 2010, there were also a score of reported cases of locally...
June 13, 2013
A new poll suggests men don't mature until they reach 43 - 11 years after women finally grow up, at age 32. Eighty per cent of women surveyed by Nickelodeon UK also believed that men "never stop being childish". Women cited typical male immature behaviour, including breaking wind, burping and eating fast food in the early morning hours. Other signs of immaturity women frowned on included being passive-aggressive...
June 13, 2013
Electronic cigarettes are to be licensed as a medicine in the U.K. from 2016. Britain currently has few restrictions on the use of e-cigarettes, although some countries have moved to ban them. E-cigarettes are to be regulated as medicines when new European tobacco laws come into force. Sales of tobacco-free cigarettes have soared worldwide since bans on public smoking were introduced, but activists...
June 13, 2013
Bangkok (dpa) - Fahad Albusaidi had never heard of Bumrungrad Hospital until he arrived in Bangkok from Oman, accompanying his mother who was booked for treatment. "If you speak to anyone in Arabic and say Bumrungrad, they will not get it," said Albusaidi, while waiting for his mother to receive a check-up. "But if you say American Hospital, they will know exactly." Bumrungrad Hospital started promoting...
June 10, 2013
New research suggests that malnutrition is responsible for 45 per cent of the global deaths of children under the age of five. Poor nutrition leads to the deaths of about 3.1 million under-fives annually, according to the report in the Lancet medical journal, and the first 1,000 days of life - from conception to two years - has lasting consequences for health. Prof Robert Black, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg...
June 7, 2013
At least 14 Californians - including two people in the Bay Area - have been infected in an outbreak of hepatitis A connected to frozen berries, and that number will almost definitely increase in the coming days and weeks, public health officials say. But there's one group of people unlikely to get sick: kids. That's because most of them are vaccinated against hepatitis A. A vaccine to prevent infection...
June 6, 2013
ATLANTA - Prostate screening tests detect prostate cancer early, but questions about whether the tests do more harm than good have made them one of the most hotly debated areas of medicine. Some doctors and researchers believe testing for PSA, which stands for prostate-specific antigen, leads to unnecessary, costly and even harmful medical procedures because so many early diagnoses are slow-growing...
June 5, 2013
A new campaign has been launched in the U.K. to remind smokers of the dangers of second-hand smoke. The TV and online adverts will outline the risk adults pose to children when they light up in cars and homes. Chief medical officer Professor Dame Sally Davies says, "It's well known that smoking kills, but many smokers still don't realise the damage their smoke causes to those around them. Our message...
June 5, 2013
Riyadh (dpa) - Three more people have died in Saudi Arabia from a SARS-like coronavirus, health authorities said Thursday, bringing to 21 the number of deaths from the disease in the kingdom. The three victims of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) were all Saudis and died in the country's Eastern Province, where most cases have been recorded, the Health Ministry said. They...
May 30, 2013
Paris (dpa) - A Frenchman diagnosed last month with coronavirus died Tuesday, becoming the first fatality from the SARS-like illness in France, the health ministry said. The 65-year-old man who presented with symptoms of the respiratory illness after a visit to Dubai and Saudi Arabia died in hospital in the northern town of Lille. Another man who contracted the virus after sharing a hospital room with...
May 28, 2013
Berlin (dpa) - Visual and audible alarms which warn motorists if they are too fatigued to continue driving can actually encourage drivers to stay at the wheel longer, says a doctor in the German capital Berlin. According to psychologist Katja Karrer-Gauss from the Technical University (TU), such tiredness-alert systems can be deceptive. "If such a system suggests a feeling of safety, people are generally...
May 23, 2013
A strain of bacteria has been discovered that can infect mosquitoes and make the insects resistant to the malaria parasite. In the study, in the journal Science, researchers showed the parasite struggled to survive in infected mosquitoes. Since malaria is spread between people by the insects, it is hoped that giving mosquitoes malaria immunity could reduce human cases and experts claim this was a first,...
May 13, 2013
Paris (dpa) - Three suspected cases of the SARS-like coronavirus have been discovered in northern France, health authorities said Friday after confirming the country's first case of the deadly respiratory infection this week. The three cases were believed to be linked to that of a 65-year-old man, who was hospitalized last month after a visit to Dubai and Saudi Arabia. The health ministry confirmed...
May 10, 2013
Paris (dpa) - France has recorded its first case of coronavirus, a deadly respiratory infection related to SARS, the French health ministry said Wednesday. The patient returned to France from a visit to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and was placed in intensive care in an isolation ward, the ministry said. The human coronavirus, or hCoV, was first discovered in 2012 in a man in Saudi Arabia....
May 8, 2013
A leading health organisation claims that there are "alarming variations" in the number of people with asthma admitted to hospital in an emergency depending on where they live. For instance, figures for 2010-11 in England show the admission rate for children in Liverpool was 19 times higher than in the London area of Tower Hamlets. Bosses at Asthma UK allege that good care and management of the condition...
May 8, 2013
Riyadh (dpa) - Five people have died from a SARS-like illness in Saudi Arabia, local media reported Thursday, quoting the country's Health Ministry. All of the deaths occurred in the eastern province of al-Ahsa. Jeddah-based newspaper Okaz said that two other people had been infected in the latest outbreak of the new form of coronavirus, which causes acute respiratory illness, and were in intensive...
May 2, 2013
Phnom Penh (dpa) - The World Health Organization on Thursday announced a 400-million-dollar program to combat a resistant strain of malaria that has emerged in Southeast Asia in recent years. The program, which has already received around one-third of the funding it requires, will seek to prevent the spread of a falciparum parasite that has become resistant to artemisinin-based combination therapy...
April 25, 2013
Taipei (dpa) - The first case of a deadly strain of bird flu recently discovered in humans has been found in Taiwan, the island's Department of Health said Wednesday. It is the first infection to be discovered outside mainland China. The patient who tested positive for the H7N9 strain of avian influenza was a 53-year-old man who went on a two-week business trip to China's eastern coastal province of...
April 24, 2013
Beijing (dpa) - The World Health Organization said Wednesday they needed more evidence to determine if human transmission of a new strain of bird flu had occurred in China. "The evidence so far is not enough to conclude that there is person-to-person transmission," said Keiji Fukuda, WHO assistant director general for health security. But future proof of human transmission "would not be surprising,"...
April 24, 2013
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