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In an outstanding new study, investigators from the University of Edinburgh, in the United Kingdom, have been able to discover a molecule that is common to a large number of different malaria strains. All of these microorganisms have the potential to induce severe infections.
Malaria accounted for 2.2 percent of al... |
23 April 2012
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Official statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that as many as 20 million people are left with various types of cardiac damages following heart attacks. With the help of a newly-proposed, stem cell-based treatment, these negative effects could be eliminated for the most part.
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14 October 2011
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In a new study, researchers demonstrate that not all obese individuals are unhealthy, or got so as a result of an unhealthy diet, combined with a sedentary lifestyle. At the same time, the work reveals that fatter people are at lower risks of developing certain conditions than their thinner peers. The new investigati... |
17 August 2011
08:45 GMT |
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Pandemic flu viruses are in the nasty habit of striking their human targets in two-step blows. Experts say that this is very likely to happen with the 2009 H1N1(swine) flu virus that affected the world. Generally, flu viruses tend to hit once, subdue for a year or so, and then come to strike again in some mutated for... |
9 March 2011
09:32 GMT |
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In spite of being an area where a huge number of studies has already been performed, the use of cell phones is still making scientists uneasy. The long-term threats on people's safety have not yet been fully and accurately assessed, experts say, therefore they cannot whole-heartedly sanction their use just yet. ... |
13 November 2009
02:42 GMT |
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is planning to draft its first sketch of a global plan of acting out against alcohol. Between now and January 2010, options will be analyzed and stitched together, providing the agency with the first-ever plan of combating the world's fifth leading cause of premature death. Th... |
15 October 2009
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In a statement made today, October 12, Marie-Paule Kieny, the head of Vaccine Research at the World Health Organization (WHO), announced that the United Nations agency plans to start sending H1N1 influenza vaccines to the developing world as early as next month. Most of the drugs will be donated by big pharmaceutical... |
12 October 2009
18:11 GMT |
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Chinese authorities have recently reported that the city of Ziketan has been sealed off from the rest of the world, after two people died of pneumonic plague. Ten other individuals, who are thought to have made contact with the victims, were also quarantined, and are kept under close observation by health officials. ... |
3 August 2009
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As the World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced the swine flu outbreak to be a pandemic, it has brought more attention than ever before to the dangers that the influenza virus holds. Although it's generally regarded as a mild disease, which does not cause any real damage to humans, from time to time it... |
30 June 2009
03:35 GMT |
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Experts can relax a bit now, the World Health Organization said on Thrusday, the Influenza A type H1N1 viral strain is not currently mutating, and it keeps a constant configuration for the moment. In the midst of a global swine flu pandemic, the world is in fear over the fact that the viral agent might mutate in the ... |
26 June 2009
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The current swine flu pandemic has also drawn attention to a very worrying fact – throughout the world, millions of people could lose their lives because they don't have access to affordable supplies of antiviral drugs and vaccines. In fact, statisticians estimate, more than 90 percent of the world's ... |
15 June 2009
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The World Health Organization (WHO) announced yesterday that it had lifted the warning level on the swine influenza outbreak from five to a maximum of six, which means that the contagion is now officially classified as a pandemic, the first since 1968. Thus far, the disease has spread in some 74 countries, and the WH... |
12 June 2009
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Keeping in tune with the bleak tone of its recent statements, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned countries that they should be prepared for more widespread and devastating flu epidemics in the future. The concern is prompted by the fact that, in some parts of South America, Africa and Asia, the swine flu viru... |
24 May 2009
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According to a new estimate released by the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday, the number of confirmed swine flu cases around the world continues to rise, despite authorities' best efforts to contain the situation. The H1N1 influenza A strain has thus far infected some 10,243 people, an... |
20 May 2009
10:37 GMT |
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The swine flu pandemic, which has recently taken the world by surprise with more than 130 people dying in Mexico and the United States, can no longer be contained, a top United Nations World Health Organization announced a few days ago. This means that nations are now forced to fend for themselves, and should focus o... |
28 April 2009
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The World Health Organization (WHO) says that one of the main causes for the incredibly large number of car crashes that occur in the world yearly is poor street lighting, in that, in some places, even the basic light poles are missing, or have never been there. A new study from Cochrane Researchers shows that some o... |
21 January 2009
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Accidental deaths among children total a whopping 830,000 each year, a new World Health Organization (WHO) report recently revealed. Most of these deaths occur in Africa, or in the poorest regions of the globe, where children are offered inadequate protection against car traffic, or are not safeguarded from falling i... |
11 December 2008
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Official estimates of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) say that cancer will surpass heart diseases as the most fatal condition on the planet by 2010. The incidence of cancer cases is growing exponentially by the decade, with as much as 12.4 million people being diagnosed with some form of the condition this yea... |
10 December 2008
08:51 GMT |
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They are everywhere around us. And I mean everywhere. I believe they're even addictive. The MP3 mania has some devastating drawbacks. How come? Well, for starters, there are some really freighting rumors that explain the damage that they can actually do. This ain't no joke, since according to the Royal Inst... |
10 September 2007
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