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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — World governments at a UN meeting on the global drug problem were urged Tuesday to move away from repression, abolish the death penalty for drug offenses and step up treatment. In the first such meeting in nearly 20 years, the UN General Assembly adopted a document that marks a shift away from the “war on drugs” launched in the 1970s, with its heavy-handed approach centered on law enforcement and criminalization. […]
by Fran BLANDY PARIS, France (AFP) –What poses a greater risk to French school children: a potential terror attack, or smoking cigarettes? This is the unusual question gripping France as a result of the jihadist attacks on Paris last November — and a court ruling later this week may point to the answer. Many high schools began letting pupils smoke on school premises as part of security measures introduced after the gun-and-bomb assaults which killed […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The Department of Health gladly welcomes the recommendation of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts or SAGE of the World Health Organization regarding the dengue vaccination being conducted in the Philippines by the DOH. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
Treating cancer that began in the liver or has spread to the liver can often involve months of chemotherapy and painful radiation treatments. But now there’s a new procedure that takes tiny beads that carry a high dose of radiation and sends them straight to the cancer. Credit: Ivanhoe Broadcast News/Reuters
MANILa, Philippines — Senator Cynthia Villar called on the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation to intensify its efforts and reach out to indigent members so that they can benefit from free medical services. Villar made this statement during the Information and Education Awareness Campaign on Philhealth Programs and Benefit Availment program at Villar SIPAG, Pulang Lupa 1, Las Pinas City. While Philhealth is there to take care of our health by providing us medical assistance, Villar […]
A new study is helping to predict a child’s type 2 diabetes risk. Researchers are finding a correlation between a child’s waist size and diabetes. By dividing the waist measurement in inches into the hip measurement, doctors can calculate the waist to hip ratio. If a child’s ratio is 0.9 or above, they may be at risk for diabetes. Reuters (Source: Lindy Moore, Florida Hospital)
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Fish that contain environmental pollutants may harm people who eat them by preventing the human body from doing its natural job of flushing out toxins, researchers said Friday. The study in the journal Science Advances examined 10 persistent organic pollutants (POPs) — including the pesticide DDT and industrial chemicals such as flame retardants — found in yellowfin tuna and human blood and urine. All 10 pollutants studied interfered with the effectiveness […]
Looking into the dengue virus, chikungunya and Zika virus, videographics by AFP TV DENGUE, chikungunya and Zika come from the same family of viruses. They are transmitted by the ‘Aedes’ mosquito, Aedes aegypti and the Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus. Ahedes aegypti is mainly found in the tropics, while the Asian tiger mosquito is found in both tropical and temperate climates, invading the Americas and even Europe. The three illnesses have several symptoms in […]
(AFP) The number of adults with diabetes has quadrupled since 1980 according to the World Health Organisation in its first-ever global report on the disease. Videographic explaining the two types of diabetes.
RAFAH, Gaza (Reuters) – In the Gaza Strip town of Rafah, beekeepers harvest honey as hundreds of bees swirl around them – but the honey isn’t the only thing they’re after. There is a center in Gaza City that treats its patients using bee sting which are said to have healing qualities. “There are (around) 18 or 20 antibiotics in bees. So some doctors opened big centers in the world, some in Germany, some in […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — People who smoke may find it harder to get work, and make less money than non-smokers, according to a US study out Monday. The findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine were based on more than 250 unemployed job-seekers in the San Francisco area. About half smoked cigarettes — on average 13 per day — and the other half did not smoke. Researchers checked in with […]
WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (Reuters) – The spread and impact of the Zika virus is wider than initially anticipated, U.S. health officials said on Monday (April 11). Dr. Anne Schuchat, a deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters at the White House that the type of mosquito in which the virus is carried is present in more U.S. states than initially thought. U.S. scientists now believe the mosquito is present […]
