Health : Page 483
May 20, 2015
According to the latest World Health Organisation (WHO) figures, 50.8 percent of Cook Islanders are obese, as are 45 percent of the inhabitants of Palau and Nauru and 43 percent of those of Samoa, Tonga and Niue.
May 19, 2015
High blood pressure, or hypertension, affects 70 million US adults, and the healthcare costs associated with treating the disease are approximately $46 billion.
May 19, 2015
One-third of people in the UK could contract food poisoning through campylobacter bacteria on chicken in their lifetime, according to UK's Food Standards Agency (FSA).
May 15, 2015
In 2014, rates of infection from a serious form of E. coli and one of the more common Salmonella serotypes decreased compared with the baseline period of 2006-2008.
May 14, 2015
A total of 31,696 cases of malaria were recorded in the first quarter of 2015 in Venezuela.
May 13, 2015
A team of neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center has shown how a protein, known to accumulate in Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, activates the brain's immune response.
May 12, 2015
One of the biggest difficulties faced by worldwide programs aimed at eliminating malaria is that the tests they use are not sensitive enough to detect all people who have the disease and need treatment.
May 11, 2015
Synthetic marijuana - in fact a dangerous chemical compounds called cannabimimetics - caused 2,714 reports to poison centres in the U.S., according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC).
May 8, 2015
Swissmedic has analysed 61 illegally imported slimming products to establish their contents and the outcome is deeply distrubing: More than three quarters of the products contained undeclared active ingredients.
May 7, 2015
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Alzheimer's disease (AD) may affect as many as 5.5 million Americans.
May 7, 2015
Three million people living with HIV/AIDS are receiving antiretroviral treatment in South Africa, meaning treatment coverage for nearly 50 percent of the infected, the health minister has said.
May 5, 2015
As more and more mothers seek better opportunities for their children in urban areas, Save the Children's new report, State of the World's Mothers 2015: The Urban Disadvantage, looks at the real story behind the bright lights of the big city.