The volcanic eruption in Iceland could affect people with respiratory problems, reported yesterday the World Health Organization (WHO). The health agency of the United Nations have not established health risks of this specific eruption, but once the clouds dissipate its effects could be dangerous, said spokesman Daniel Epstein. “Any particular matter that is deposited, breathed [...]
Yesterday, the researchers presented in Oviedo, Spain a breakthrough against tumors. In fact, scientists and medical experts, the same as yesterday spoke of the genetic pathway to combat this evil named, estimated that the number of cancer cases diagnosed worldwide in 2007, 12 million, will grow relentlessly to reach 27 million annual diagnoses around the [...]
Women who gain excessive weight during pregnancy, especially in the first trimester, may increase their risk of developing diabetes later in their pregnancy, according to a study by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research that appears online in the current issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Watch a video of the study author explaining her study: [...]
After a decade of remarkable growth, total annual funding for biomedical research in the U.S. has decelerated and may have even fallen when adjusted for inflation. That is the conclusion of a study today published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. “The era of rapid expansion in biomedical research funding that began in [...]
Health and Development Groups Applaud Clinton Speech; Call for Action A broad coalition of organizations representing millions of Americans applauded statement by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the United States unequivocally supports the worldwide consensus that achieving universal access to reproductive health is critical for individual health, family well-being, broader economic development and a [...]
For more than 400 years, scientists have studied the amazing regenerative power of salamanders, trying to understand how these creatures routinely repair injuries that would usually leave humans and other mammals paralyzed — or worse. Now, fueled by a highly competitive National Institutes of Health Grand Opportunity grant of $2.4 million, a multi-institutional team of [...]
but Are Skeptical Healthcare Will Improve in 2010 A majority of Americans support a “public option” in healthcare reform legislation, but most lack confidence that the cost, quality, value or accessibility of medical care will improve in the next year, according to a survey released today by Thomson Reuters. Sixty percent of survey respondents said [...]
On December 31, 2008, a reported 20,606 state prisoners and 1,538 federal prisoners were HIV positive or had confirmed AIDS, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, announced. At yearend 2008, an estimated 5,672 inmates in state and federal prisons had confirmed AIDS, down from 5,762 [...]
Lethality of H1N1 Virus Drops to “Non-Epidemic Resting Levels” in Current Cycle – Virus’ Infectivity Remains Increased; New Faster-Developed Synthetic Replikin Vaccines Found Effective, FluForecast(R) Gives Advance Warning of Strain-Specific Outbreaks and Cessation Biotech firm Replikins Ltd., which has analyzed the H1N1 virus’ genomic data from the 1918 pandemic through the prediction, outbreak, and progress [...]
ASTMH Symposium Considers Evidence of Effects of Climate Change on Climate-Sensitive Diseases An emerging body of evidence suggests that the changing global climate is already affecting infectious disease transmission patterns. As noted in a symposium at the 58th annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), such changes are expected to [...]