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MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health advised candidates and their supporters to have a break or rest period during their campaign in order to avoid heat stroke. The DOH added that the hours between 10 in the morning to 2 in the afternoon should be avoided due to the high amount of ultraviolet radiation. Said department also added that the candidates and their supporters should also regularly consume water. (Eagle News Service Described by […]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) – Researchers in Argentina say they have genetically modified an adenovirus – which can cause colds, conjunctivitis and bronchitis – to home in on cancer, killing tumor cells in patients without harming healthy tissue. Scientists have long been intrigued by the idea of using viruses to alert the immune system to seek and destroy cancerous cells. That interest has taken off in recent years as advances in genetic engineering allow them […]
Reuters – The number of adults with diabetes has quadrupled worldwide in under four decades to 422 million, and the condition is fast becoming a major problem in poorer countries, a World Health Organization study released on Wednesday (April 6) showed. In one of the largest studies to date of diabetes trends, the researchers said ageing populations and rising levels of obesity across the world mean diabetes is becoming “a defining issue for global public […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The death of a life partner may trigger an irregular heartbeat, itself potentially life-threatening, said new research Wednesday into the risk of dying from a broken heart. A trawl of data on nearly a million Danes showed an elevated risk, lasting about a year, of developing a heart flutter. Under-60’s whose partners died unexpectedly were most in peril. The risk was highest “8-14 days after the loss, after which it gradually […]
BY AMRUTHA PENUMUDI The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s staff reviewers did not raise any major red flags over Intercept Pharmaceuticals Inc’s liver drug on Tuesday, sending the stock up as much as 19 percent. The drug, obeticholic acid (OCA), is being reviewed for use in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis, a rare liver disease resulting from an autoimmune destruction of the bile ducts. Several analysts said the documents released by the staff leaned towards […]
BY ANDREW M. SEAMAN (Reuters Health) – The cost of the hormone insulin, one of the most important treatments for diabetes, rose nearly 200 percent between 2002 and 2013, according to a new study. While other diabetes medications also increased in price, total spending on insulin in 2013 was greater than the combined spending on all those other drugs, researchers report in JAMA. “The large increase in costs can largely be explained (by) much greater […]
CHICAGO | BY JULIE STEENHUYSEN (Reuters) — Top Zika investigators now believe that the birth defect microcephaly and the paralyzing Guillain-Barre syndrome may be just the most obvious maladies caused by the mosquito-borne virus. Fueling that suspicion are recent discoveries of serious brain and spinal cord infections – including encephalitis, meningitis and myelitis – in people exposed to Zika. Evidence that Zika’s damage may be more varied and widespread than initially believed adds pressure on […]
SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) – Further to the outbreak of the Zika virus, Brazil is battling an increase in cases of flu with anticipated vaccination services, despite sweeping budget cuts for health. State health authorities in Sao Paulo initiated their annual vaccination services early this year to protect some 3.5 million people who are most at risk. An extra round of vaccinations began on March 23, ahead of the start of planned services mid-April. The […]
MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health is open to the proposal of using different dengue vaccines in the future. Although the DOH will use a single brand in its free vaccine program for the next 20 months, said department welcomes the development of other brands. According to the World Health Organization, five more dengue vaccines are under development. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — US researchers announced Thursday the first three-dimensional map of Zika, an advance that some hope will speed efforts to develop a vaccine against the mosquito-borne virus which has been linked to birth defects. The findings in the journal Science describe a virus that is in many ways similar to other in its family of flaviviruses — including dengue, West Nile, yellow fever, and Japanese encephalitis — but also […]
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, United States – Doctors at Johns Hopkins Medicine announced on Wednesday (March 30) the first ever liver transplant from an HIV positive donor to an HIV positive recipient, as well as the first kidney transplant in the United States from an HIV positive donor to an HIV positive recipient. Transplant surgeon Dr. Dorry Segev said he had already been performing successful organ transplants for HIV positive patients using organs from HIV negative donors […]
MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health will start its dengue vaccination program on April 4 despite questions in the medical community regarding said vaccines safety and effectiveness. According to Health Secretary Janet Garin, the World Health Organization guaranteed that said vaccine passed stringent tests. The DOH is aiming for the vaccination of 1.4 Grade IV students in Metro Manila, Central Luzon and Calabarzon. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by […]
