Award-winning actresses Edie Falco and Cynthia Nixon appear in a new Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) public service campaign (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9avVoQB2_rQ) to educate cancer patients and their loved ones...
created by ESKCSG | 7 wks ago 49 views | 14 recommendations | 1 comment
More than 100 high school students and 17 teachers has infected with swine flu in Hungary. The school temporary closed. This is the biggest multitudinous infection here, still swine flu appeared around the world. Vaccine under tests. The producer says it will be ready in...
opinion by jigo | 8 wks ago | updated 8 wks ago 154 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
The UK Family Education Trust has issued a report that claims that parents will have no say in their children's sex education under plans by the British government to introduce compulsory sex and relationships...
British airlines have begun their “war on swine flu” by instructing the check-in staff to watch out for swine flu symptoms in passengers. Passengers with suspected H1N1 infections can be prevented from...
created by yuls.source | 16 wks ago | updated 16 wks ago 525 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
" MANILA -- The Department of Health (DOH) recorded Monday two new deaths related to influenza A (H1N1) or swine flu infection. Dr. Yolanda Oliveros, head of the DOH-National Center for Disease Control Prevention,...
HIV infection rates in South Africa seem to be levelling off at an infection rate of 10.9% for residents over two according to a new study released today. The same study said the rate of infection in teenagers and children could be decreasing as well, perhaps due to the use...
created by amyjudd | 21 wks ago | updated 21 wks ago 127 views | 6 recommendations | 1 comment
It seems that the culprit may have been a specific pathogen: Nosema ceranae (Microsporidia). Researchers in Spain apparently identified the pathogen in professional apiaries and treated it with antibiotics in...
created by mgmirkin | 29 wks ago | updated 29 wks ago 810 views | 109 recommendations | 15 comments
The fallout from the Pope's words on condom use last week is starting to reach across the globe. I wonder if the Pope realizes how his words can devastate public health worldwide, and fuel more HIV...
A casserole has been identified as the source of a food poisoning outbreak that sickened 200 inmates in a Wisconsin jail. The CDC identified the bacterium to be Clostridium perfringens, which may remain in...
created by Terri Potratz | 36 wks ago | updated 36 wks ago 153 views | 12 recommendations | 2 comments
Twenty-year old Brazilian model Mariana Bridi da Costa who was supposed to compete in Miss World Beauty Pageant is fighting for her life after having had her limbs amputated as the result of a bacterial infection...
created by yuls.source | 41 wks ago | updated 41 wks ago 3155 views | 26 recommendations | 6 comments
While all eyes are focused on the shower of violence and despair drenching the Gaza strip, the inauguration of America's first black American, and the crumbling global economy, the Zimbabwean fight against cholera...
The authorities in Cape Town are on high alert after a 4-month old baby was admitted to hospital with cholera. According to the provincial health department of the Western Cape, the case is probably not related...
On World AIDS Day 2008, The American College of Physicians is recommending that all patients over age 13 get tested for the HIV virus which causes AIDS."The organization, which represents more than 126,000...
created by Terri Potratz | 48 wks ago | updated 48 wks ago 382 views | 22 recommendations | 6 comments
This is a first in the world. An opportunity to seal incisions using a new method that discourages infection by its application and procedure."Surgeons of the future may have to learn welding rather than sewing,...
Work done by British and Indian scientists, have found oregano to be an effective antibacterial, may work to eradicate the untreatable MRSA. Oregano is a super-herb that can treat almost anything. Sounds too...