Sep 22, 2018, at 07:58 am
New York, Sept 22 (IBNS): New Ebola virus hotspots in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are threatening progress made in tackling the deadly disease and increasing its risk of spreading, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday.
Alcohol abuse kills three million people a year, most of them men – WHO report
Sep 22, 2018, at 07:47 am
New York, Sept 22 (IBNS): More one in 20 deaths in 2016 – 3 million people, mostly men – were caused by harmful use of alcohol, according a report released on Friday by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Mediterranean-style diet may lower women’s stroke risk: Study
Sep 21, 2018, at 06:22 pm
Londo, Sept 21 (IBNS): Following a Mediterranean-style diet may reduce stroke risk in women over 40 but not in men – according to new research led by the University of East Anglia.
Adults with varied sleep-wake times weigh more, have higher blood sugar, risk of disease: Study
Sep 21, 2018, at 05:11 pm
Durham, Sept 21 (IBNS): Sufficient sleep has been proven to help keep the body healthy and the mind sharp. But it’s not just an issue of logging at least seven hours of Z’s.
A Rotarian accounts the success story of Polio Eradication
Sep 21, 2018, at 04:37 pm
Ashok Mahajan, Past Rotary International Director and Past Trustee The Rotary Foundation in conversation with Subhojit Roy
Study shows new technology can predict fatal heart attacks
Sep 21, 2018, at 03:44 pm
London, Sept 21 (IBNS): Researchers at the University of Oxford, working with colleagues in Erlangen, Germany and at the Cleveland Clinic, USA, have developed a new technology based on analysis of computed tomography (CT) coronary angiograms that can flag patients at risk of deadly heart attacks years before they occur.
WHO congratulates India for significantly reducing child deaths
Sep 19, 2018, at 09:29 pm
New Delhi, Sept 19 (IBNS): WHO has commended India for its concerted efforts to reduce child deaths, which have resulted in under-five mortality estimates to have fallen below the one million mark.
Strength-based exercises could help child obesity fight, study finds
Sep 19, 2018, at 03:55 pm
London, Sept 19 (IBNS): Encouraging young people to do strength-based exercises – such as squats, push ups and lunges – could play a key role in tackling child obesity, research suggests.
Sep 19, 2018, at 08:49 am
New York, Sept 19 (IBNS): Countries are not doing enough to end tuberculosis – the world’s deadliest infectious disease – by 2030, warned the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday, at the release of the latest Global Tuberculosis Report.
Sep 18, 2018, at 05:30 pm
New York, Sept 18 (IBNS): A new computer program can analyze images of patients’ lung tumors, specify cancer types, and even identify altered genes driving abnormal cell growth, a new study shows.
The microbiota in the intestines fuels tumour growth: Study finds
Sep 18, 2018, at 03:18 pm
New York, Sept 18 (IBNS): The team of Professor Dirk Haller at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) made an unexpected discovery while investigating the triggering factors of colon cancer
Muscle relaxants increase risk of respiratory complications: Study
Sep 18, 2018, at 03:13 pm
New York, Sept 18 (IBNS): Muscle relaxants are a necessary part of anesthesia during certain major operations. Studies have, however, hinted at respiratory risks connected with these drugs.
Supreme Court lifts ban on sale of Saridon and two other drugs
Sep 17, 2018, at 02:11 pm
New Delhi, Sept 17 (IBNS): Days after the Centre's ban on 328 combinationdrugs, the Supreme Court on Monday allowed the sale of Saridon and two other drugs for now, media reports said.
Landmark study reveals: Can aspirin prolong good health?
Sep 17, 2018, at 09:10 am
Canberra, Sept 17 (IBNS): Three groundbreaking papers published in today’s New England Journal of Medicine, led by a team of Monash University researchers in Melbourne, reveal the results from a seven-year study of the benefits and risks of a low daily dose of aspirin to the lives of people over 70.
Mom's high blood sugar in pregnancy linked to child's obesity: Study
Sep 16, 2018, at 09:00 pm
New York, Sept 16 (IBNS): A pregnant woman’s higher blood sugar level is linked to a significantly greater long-term risk of obesity in her child — even more than a decade later, reports a large new international study led by Northwestern Medicine.
Sep 15, 2018, at 06:51 pm
Melbourne, Sept 15 (IBNS):New research has found children born in the last three months of the year in Melbourne may have a greater risk of developing respiratory diseases such as asthma
DR Congo: new cases of deadly Ebola virus, as UN steps up response
Sep 15, 2018, at 08:44 am
New York, Sept 15 (IBNS): In eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN has stepped up community-based efforts to tackle Ebola disease, following confirmation that the virus has reached the city of Butembo, near the Ugandan border, where it has claimed three lives.
Sep 14, 2018, at 05:00 pm
Kolkata, Sept 14 (IBNS): A Kolkata doctor has urged mothers to breast feed their newborns exclusively for six months, while sounding alert against unscrupulous and misleading advertisement.
Saridon, Corex and 326 other combination drugs banned
Sep 13, 2018, at 06:47 pm
New Delhi, Sept 13 (IBNS) : The Ministry of Health has banned the production, sale of about 328 fixed dose combinations of drugs (FDCs), including Saridon and Corex, two popular drugs in the country, reports said.
Cancer is a growing global threat and prevention is key, UN study shows
Sep 13, 2018, at 08:09 am
New York, Sept 13 (IBNS): More than 18 million new cases of cancer are expected this year and it’s estimated that 9.6 million people will die from various forms of the disease in 2018, the UN’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) said on Wednesday.
Global Preparedness Monitoring Board convenes for the first time in Geneva
Sep 11, 2018, at 09:23 am
Geneva, Sept 11 (IBNS): WHO and the World Bank Group on Monday convened the first meeting of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB), a new body set up to monitor the world’s readiness to respond to outbreaks and other health emergencies.
Change your diet to save both water and your health: Study
Sep 11, 2018, at 09:10 am
London, Sept 11 (IBNS): Shifting to a healthy diet is not only good for us, but it also saves a lot of precious fresh water, according to a JRC study published in Nature Sustainability.
Middle-aged drinkers should have alcohol free days, urges health chiefs
Sep 10, 2018, at 05:58 pm
London, Sept 10 (IBNS): A YouGov poll has found that one in five of UK adults are drinking above the Chief Medical Officer’s low risk drinking guidelines and more than two thirds of these say they would find cutting down on their drinking harder to do than one or more other lifestyle changes - improving their diet, exercising more, or reducing their smoking, if they were smokers.
800,000 people commit suicide every year: WHO
Sep 10, 2018, at 03:27 pm
New York, Sept 10 (IBNS): Every year, close to 800,000 people commit suicide, the second leading cause of death amongst people aged 15-29 in 2016.
'Mindful people' feel less pain; MRI imaging pinpoints supporting brain activity
Sep 08, 2018, at 04:53 pm
New York, Sept 8 (IBNS): Ever wonder why some people seem to feel less pain than others? A study conducted at Wake Forest School of Medicine may have found one of the answers – mindfulness.
Sri Sathya Sai Hospital to hold free medical camp in Kolkata
Sep 08, 2018, at 03:53 pm
Kolkata, Sep 8 (IBNS): Sri Sathya Sai Hospital, part of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Trust, and Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisations in West Bengal will conduct a free of cost medical camp on September 30, 2018 at Khudiram Anushilan Kendra Indoor Stadium, Kolkata.
Countries in WHO South-East Asia to intensify efforts to control dengue, eliminate malaria
Sep 07, 2018, at 07:51 pm
New Delhi, Sept 7 (IBNS) Countries in WHO South-East Asia resolved to accelerate efforts to control dengue which threatens nearly 1.3 billion people with frequent and largescale outbreaks, and control malaria, that continues to be endemic in the Region.
More daytime sleepiness may trigger Alzheimer’s disease: Study
Sep 07, 2018, at 03:44 pm
New York, Sept 7 (IBNS): Analysis of data captured during a long-term study of aging adults shows that those who report being very sleepy during the day were nearly three times more likely than those who didn’t to have brain deposits of beta amyloid, a protein that’s a hallmark for Alzheimer’s disease, years later.
Sep 06, 2018, at 07:04 pm
New Delhi, Sept 6 (IBNS): The World Health Organization on Thursday called upon countries in its South-East Asia Region to strengthen emergency medical teams, to be better prepared to respond to public health emergencies.
Albinism: UN official welcomes latest developments in ‘landmark’ Malawi murder case
Sep 06, 2018, at 09:32 am
New York, Sept 6 (IBNS): The top United Nations representative in Malawi is urging the Government to promptly prosecute those allegedly responsible for the death of a young man with albinism whose butchered body was found earlier this year.