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Zimbabwe's health services, once regarded among the best in Africa, are "in a state of collapse" with its main hospitals closed and a cholera epidemic raging, a leading medical body said Wednesday.
The country's four main hospitals, in the capital Harare and the western city of Bulawayo, were "virtually closed,"...
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has demanded the immediate release of 90 schoolchildren it says were abducted in the Democratic Republic of Congo by a notorious Ugandan rebel group.
The agency said local authorities informed them that the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) took 50 children from the village of Kiliwa and 40 from...
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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday appealed for 460 million dollars as a food crisis in Ethiopia and the wider Horn of Africa continued to grow.
"The Horn of Africa region is facing the worst humanitarian crisis since 1984, and Ethiopia is caught in the middle," WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran...
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 An overnight fire killed eighteen children and an adult in
their dormitory at a Ugandan junior school near the capital, Kampala. The students were between the ages
of seven and ten. It is unknown why so many children were sleeping in the room,
which had 63 beds, at the time of the fire. However, survivors claim the death
toll could...
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 Heavily armed Islamist militants took over a central Somali
town Sunday and killed two British and two Kenyan teachers, the Associated
Press reports. It appears that three of the victims are women and the fourth
victim is reported to be a Somali man with British citizenship, returned to his
hometown in order to build a...
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 Over 6,000 Kenyans have fled to eastern Uganda from the on-going
violence after last month's disputed general election that saw
incumbent president Mwai Kibaki re-elected for a second term, UN and
government sources said Saturday.
Most of the displaced are huddled in camps around the border towns
of Malaba and Busia and aid...
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 The release in Sudan of a British school teacher jailed for naming a
teddy bear Mohammed was Monday hailed as a victory for "common sense"
in Britain.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Anglican Church leaders and mainstream
Muslim organizations hailed the decision by Sudanese President Omar
al-Bashir to pardon Gillian...
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 Two Muslim members of the upper house of British parliament met
Saturday with the British teacher who was convicted of blasphemy in
Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Mohammed.
Lord Ahmed, a peer in the House of Lords for the Labour Party, and
Baroness Warsi, of the Conservatives, met with Gillian Gibbons at...
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 Protests erupted in the Sudanese capital Khartoum Friday, with
thousands of angry demonstrators calling for the death of a British
teacher who was convicted of blasphemy for allowing her students to
name a teddy bear Mohammed.
The protestors poured out of mosques following Friday prayers, some
carrying knives and clubs, just a day...
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 A British schoolteacher has been found guilty of insulting religion by
a court in Sudan after she allowed her pupils to name a teddy bear
Mohammed.
Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, was sentenced to 15 days and
would be deported, her lawyer said. Two other charges against her,
which included inciting hatred, were...
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 A British teacher has been charged by Sudanese authorities with
insulting religion and inciting hatred for allowing her pupils to name
a teddy bear Mohammed, the Foreign Office in London confirmed
Wednesday.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was "surprised and
disappointed" at the charges, while Foreign Secretary David...
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 According to a statement given by a local security source,
two children were kidnapped a few days ago of employees of the French energy
group, Total, who were snatched on the way to school in Port
Harcourt.
Young children have become the targets for militants in the
oil-rich Niger Delta region in recent months.
Seven oil...
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 Kidnappings in Nigeria were taken to a whole new level Thursday after a British girl was abducted as she was heading to school by unknown perpetrators in the strife-torn Niger Delta, the police informed.The little girl, Margaret Hill is the daughter of a British expatriate and was snatched after a group of gunmen broke a side window of a...
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 A new study made for the health system in California discovered that because of the state’s high pollution rate, more than $28 billion are spent each year for the 20 million people who live by breathing the worst air in the country. Deaths, chronic illness, hospitalizations and missing days from school and work led the health system and...
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 Being married to a smoker can considerably increase your risk of stroke, even if you’re a non-smoker, suggests a recent study carried out by a team at Harvard University and published in the newest issue of American Journal of Preventive Medicine.It is almost unanimously known the fact that smokers are far more likely to suffer stroke...
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 The teenage pregnancy rate increased in US,
reports from the US Centers for Disease Control and prevention show. On this
ground, a group of 17 girls attending the public high school in the seaside
town of Gloucester, Mass., made a pact to become pregnant and to
raise the children together. At the end of the school year, 17 teenage...
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The American Lung Association’s State of
the Air reported yesterday the rates of air pollution in different cities of
the U.S. between 2004 and 2006, according to Atlanta Journal Constitution.
The researchers have based their study on
three categories of air quality: short-term and year round particle pollution,
the last one...
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 The sexual health of children is being once again a topic of
discussion, this time between parents and teachers of Maine
school district.
Parents and school officials are preparing to battle tonight
in a debate about the sexual health of children at one Maine
school district.
Administrators at a Portland
middle school are...
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 Hugging is no longer allowed in the Chicagoan area schools as
many find it as being inappropriate. You would think that principals would have
better things to do and other directions in which to point their benevolence
but hugging, I mean isn’t that a bit too much.
One example of schools in which such deviant behavior was
noticed...
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 U.S. researchers stated on Tuesday that the widely used Ginkgo Biloba doesn’t help at all in treating or preventing Alzheimer's disease in healthy elderly people or those with mild cognitive impairment. The researchers tracked 3,069 people age 75 or older from five U.S. locations. The study lasted for six years and half of the people...
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 Two important studies published today showed that the supplements taken by millions of Americans as vitamins don’t reduce the risk for many important diseases. The vitamins that people think it could help them fight the diseases don’t reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes or breast cancer.In one of the studies, 14,641 male physicians...
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 The National Center of Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University made a study on 1,002 children aged between 12 and 17 years old. Many of them said they find it easier to obtain prescription drugs illegally than to buy beer, cigarettes of marijuana. Among the prescription drugs that children are interested in there are...
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 A study released today in the Journal of the American
Medical Association discovered that generally used hormone-blocking drugs in
the treatment for prostate cancer did not expand survival likelihood for men
over 65 with early-stage tumors and that in fact, it might be risky.
The analysis found that men who were given the...
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 Since the American
Academy of Pediatrics
issued a recommendation on Monday regarding treating children over the age of 8
with cholesterol drugs, a new debate has been triggered on whether there exists
sufficient scientific proof to rationalize such a move.
Known for their efficacy in decreasing the risk of heart
disease in...
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 A fifteen-year-old Vietnamese girl has a 16-pound facial tumor
which threatens to suffocate her. Now she is in Miami, waiting for surgery to remove the tumor
and to restore her ability to eat and speak. Doctors at the University of
Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center will remove it in a 10-hour laborious surgery.
The little...
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 Three juveniles were arrested Thursday after on April 4 Boulder police had received a complaint by Nevin Platt
Middle School officials
who said a student had brought two prescription drugs to school to give them to
another student in exchange for alcohol.
The prescription drugs were Strattera and Concerta, two
medicines usually...
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 San Diego-based Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc announced that an independent safety monitoring board has concluded that its obesity drug Lorcaserin shows no heart safety issues after one year. The results were awaited eagerly because obesity drugs have created scandals in the past, such as that made by Wyeth which had to be recalled ten years...
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 Studies show that drugs used for fatigue and anemia could actually
do more harm to patients than help them, especially if they are not given in
the correct doses, Reuters informs.
Researchers say that the drugs, erythropoiesis-stimulating
agents or ESAs, raise the risk of death by 10 percent in patients who took them
compared...
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 A public health advisory panel voted on Monday to require
all children in New Jersey who attend preschool or are in day care to get
annual flu vaccinations, despite opposition from numerous parents and
children’s rights advocates.
Before the vote, some parents who believe in a link between
vaccinations and autism spoke against the...
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 According to a U.S. researchers report, the common pain
reliever and anti-inflammatory ibuprofen significantly slows the decline in
lung function seen in children with cystic fibrosis.
A team at Case Western Reserve University School of
Medicine, in Cleveland, found that children with cystic fibrosis who took high
doses of...
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 Hannah Montana created a franchise through the series released worldwide. And everyone would want to see Miley Cyrus live, but what about when it comes to play next to her in the Disney series? Obama’s daughters have received an invitation to the set of Hannah Montana, but it’s still not clear whether the new president of America will...
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 After the sex scandal that involved New York Governor Eliot
Spitzer, the future of call girl Ashley Alexander Dupre appeared promising.
A paid-sex engendered the end of Spitzer’s career in
politics and at the same time opened new (and generous) roads for Dupre. Soon
after the scandal she was proposed a large number of offers,...
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 The bitter divorce that gave tabloid media so much food for
gossip between Beatles’ Paul McCartney and Heather Mills ended with a
settlement with $48.6 million in favor of the former model-turned activist.
According to a document released by the Family Court, Mills
was granted a lump sum of $33 million to which assets worth $15.6...
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 The 26-year-old heiress Paris
Hilton was honored yesterday at Harvard, one of the most prestigious
universities in the world. The event overwhelmed even the most notorious
heiress in the world. Paris couldn’t contain
herself from saying “Harvard is hot!” when she was handed over the Harvard
Lampoon Humor Magazine's Woman of the Year...
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 The 35th edition of American Music Awards had in the center
of the prize-attention two American Idol stars.
Former competitors in the popular show Carrie Underwood and
Chris Daughtry won a hat-trick of awards each, leading in the top
winning artist of the Los Angeles’ Nokia Theater event.
Underwood, who has very recently won...
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 An 8th grade female student and her family are suing a substitute teacher for showing “Brokeback Mountain” in class and allegedly causing the girl psychological distress.
The 12-year-old girl claims to have been deeply disturbed after watching “Brokeback Mountain,” a 2005 controversial and multi-award-nominated...
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 The AIDS epidemic goes on because the Americans seemed to have ignored the piece of advice given by the U.S. health officials to get the HIV testing if they were aged between 13 and 64 years. These testing remain in the shadow for most of the people. And this happens despite the new guidelines and the better testing methods.These results...
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 Researchers announced on Sunday that some genetically engineered immune cells could find the HIV virus in the body. This could offer a wide way to cure the disease that has been said to be impossible to cure. A study made in the laboratory showed that the T-cells, also called assassin cells, can spot the cells infected by the virus and...
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 Researchers said on Tuesday that there is greater risk for obese children to develop clogged arteries just like in middle-aged adults. Dr. Geetha Raghuveer of the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine and Children's Mercy Hospital, stated that if this happens the children can also experience heart attacks or strokes just...
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 Glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate are two supplements used to treat arthritis and joint pain. Still, recent studies have shown that these two popular drugs don’t work properly or don’t do enough to cure neither arthritis, nor joint pain. But the researchers added that their study needed to be revised as some findings were confusing.Dr....
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 On Monday, a guidelines released by the American Heart Association showed that heart patients should be checked for depression because the heart disease can mix up a common complication of depression which can easily produce a second heart attack. Depressed heart patients are more likely to die of a second heart attack and as the...
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 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, also known as COPD, is a treatment used for the lung disease. Researchers have recently discovered that even if the drug is safe for treating the lung disease it could easily cause heart attacks, strokes and death. Still, the drug makers and marketers disagree to the new analysis.The inhaled...
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 Some Canadian researchers discovered that only three weeks of radiation for the women who have an early-stage breast cancer are correspondent with the five weeks or more of the same treatment. The researchers tracked 1,234 women for almost 12 years and noticed that a shorter treatment does the same with the longer one.This study has just...
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 Researchers have stated that if pregnant women get flu shots a month or more before giving birth, they might protect their babies too, in their first six months. Dr. Mark Steinhoff, a pediatrician with the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, said that the study is about "immunize the mother and you protect...
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 Researchers have recently stated that even if genetics play a main role in obesity, this weight problem can be overcame with regular exercise and physical activity. Physical exercise can really decrease the impact the genetics have on obesity. The particular gene known as fat mass and obesity associated (FTO) is also known to be in...
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 Researchers have discovered that the vaccine against MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) doesn’t work for autism too. So the vaccine doesn’t raise the risk for the bipolar disease of autism. Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, director of the Mailman School of Public Health Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University College of Physicians and...
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 Even if researchers have recently stated that the vaccine against chickenpox could diminish its occurrence in children with almost 90%, some doctors and health officials fear that many parents don’t take the disease seriously enough as to get their children vaccinated.A study released in the journal of Pediatrics on Tuesday and made by...
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 An Italian study showed that omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids found in fish oil could reduce the number of deaths caused by heart failure. Still, the cholesterol-lowering statin, which the researchers used to make a comparison, showed no improvement in a parallel heart failure trial.Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, an associate professor of...
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 Measles is caused by a virus and is spread through respiration, commonly through contacts with fluids from an infected person or through aerosol transmission. The virus is very contagious, almost 90%, and people with no immunity who share the same space with an infected person will catch the disease.The period between the time when the...
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U.S. researchers have shown that poor sleep habits influence anger and lousiness. Poor sleep leads to high blood pressure as researchers reported on Monday. The study was made on teenagers who slept less than 6 1 hours a night. They were more likely to have high blood pressure and those with troubled sleep had triple risk of increasing...
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 A team of scientist has discovered that people taking cholesterol-lowering statins are less likely to develop dementia and have memory loss than those who do not take statins. According to the Alzheimer's Research Trust, the findings of the research are "encouraging". The study, published in the July 29 edition of Neurology,...
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 You’ve probably heard the rumor saying that eating soya drops sperm counts. Well, a new study suggest than men can almost carelessly eat the aliment because "there's no reason to panic at this moment,” says lead researcher Jorge Chavarro, at Harvard School of Public Health. It’s too early to determine whether there is a link between...
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 According to a recent research, swollen
veins appeared on men’s scrotum, known as varicoceles – a common cause of
infertility in men – can be treated with a minimally invasive procedure called
retrograde venous embolization. The procedure improves semen quality, as well
as sperm count and motility.
The study conducted by Dr....
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According to a new study led by NYU Langone Medical Center
researchers and involving more than 7,000 subjects, a bacteria that is known to
live in the human stomach may protect children from developing asthma.
Although bacterium helicobacter pylori, which has co-existed
with humans for at least 50,000 years, may also lead to...
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 According to a study introduced at a conference of the
American Society of Health Economists in Raleigh-Durham,
N.C., last month, the growth of
gas prices could be beneficial for some drivers.
Professors Michael Morrisey of the University
of Alabama at Birmingham
and David Grabowski of Harvard
Medical School
said their...
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 A study involving more than 100 families prone to autism
revealed six new genes that seem to underlie the disease, which means
researchers might find new alternative to treat it.
Autism is usually characterized through social isolation,
speech problems and repetitive activities.
The researchers, who published their study in the...
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 A new Harvard study initiated by David
Sinclair of Harvard Medical School and Rafael de Cabo of the National Institute
of aging shows that resveratrol, a compound found in grapes and red wine
provides heart benefits, preventing cardiovascular diseases, reducing heart
inflammation, enabling stronger bones and preventing eye cataracts....
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 Relaxation techniques such as meditation,
yoga, tai chi, breathing exercises and prayer improve health, a new study
suggests. Researchers found that the physiologic state of deep rest could treat
different kinds of pain, as well as infertility, rheumatoid arthritis,
insomnia. The relaxation response affects the expression of genes...
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 A cancer therapy that proved effective in treating several mice with cancer disease will be tested on humans. Clinical tests begin this week at Wake Forest University. The therapy is based on the transfusion of white blood cells from cancer-resistant donors into cancer patients. The idea is to use these white blood cells in the fight...
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 A new study shows people with heart disease
and low levels of vitamin D in their blood have a great risk of dying from different
causes and particularly from cardiovascular disease. According to health
authorities, lack of vitamin D has been blamed for everything from weakened
bones to rickets, but now Harald Dobnig, M.D., of the...
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 Scientists looked at the link between
diabetes and depression and have found that diabetes contributes to depression
and vice versa.
The study, published yesterday in the “Journal
of the American Medical Association,” indicated that people who are treated for
type 2 diabetes had a 52% higher risk of developing symptoms of...
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 Coffee isn’t harmful to your health, says a
new study. Is it true that long term, regular coffee consumption has beneficial
health effects? It appears that the main benefit is that it reduces the risk of
dying from heart disease.
The study research, published in the “Annals
of Internal Medicine,” tracked over 84,000 women and...
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 Men who have low levels of vitamin D are at
higher risk of heart attack, researchers presented their findings in an article
published in the June 9 issue of “Archives of Internal Medicine.”
It has been found that deaths related to
cardiovascular disease are more frequent in higher latitudes and during the winter
months and are...
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a
report which shows that risky behavior among teenagers continues to dwindle. It
seems that fewer adolescents drank, smoked or had sex in 2007 than their peers
did in 1991.
The findings point out that hispanic high school students
are more likely to engage in risky health...
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 Fewer adolescents drink, smoke or have sex
than their fellows did in 1991. Although being a teenager isn’t as risky as it
used to be, too many youths still put their lives and their health at risk, a
report Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
Risky behaviour among US teenagers continues
to decline and...
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 A study conducted by researchers at Cardiff
University’s Welsh School of
Pharmacy at Cardiff University
in Wales
has proven that antimicrobial wipes are often used in ways that favour the
spreading of drug-resistant bacteria and other pathogens instead of killing
them. The findings were released on Tuesday at the 108th General...
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 Aging carries many unpleasant changes with it. One of them is memory
loss, which seriously affects one’s life. A study made by Harvard School of
Public Health (HSPH) pointed out that a satisfying social life in American old
people decelerates the evolution of memory loss.
"We hope this study adds to and advances our...
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A study published in the May 28 online issue of Neurology,
the medical journal of the American Academy
of Neurology, proves that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such
as ibuprofen, naproxen, and aspirin, appear to be equally beneficial in
lowering the risk of Alzheimer's disease. Researchers have analyzed two...
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 Adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
miss, on average, more than three weeks a year in workplace productivity,
according to researchers led by Dr. Ron de Graaf of the Netherlands Institute
of Mental Health and Addiction.
ADHD was first explained in 1845 by Dr. Heinrich Hoffman in
"The Story of Fidgety...
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 The national rate for obesity in children and adolescents
could be moving toward stability after a 25-year increase, according to a study
published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The study involved analyzing data gathered from 1999 to 2006
by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Analysts...
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 High levels of stress in mothers lead to the risk of
developing asthma or allergies in newborns, according to a study conducted by the Harvard Medical
School and presented at a meeting of
the American Thoracic Society in Toronto
on Monday.
"Moms who had elevated levels of stress had children
who seemed to be more reactive...
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A study published in Wednesday’s issue of PloS ONE points
out the difference of rates as regards mortality in well-educated individuals and
people who have finished less than high-school.
The findings reveal that the gap in overall death rates
between these two categories of Americans increased rapidly from 1993 to 2001....
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 Exposure to air pollution from traffic fumes raises risks of
potentially fatal blood clots in the leg; it alters the blood’s coagulation
properties and heightens the risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a Harvard research
study showed.
The Harvard School of Public Health published the results of
the first study focused on air...
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