World Health News

French authorities said yesterday they were calling in the army's health services to meet a surge in demand for vaccinations against swine flu, which has killed 30 people in the country. Mass vaccination centres opened on November 12 but "since...

NEW advice on treating HIV patients at an earlier stage will inevitably present "an enormous challenge" to the international community, a British minister has warned. The World Health Organisation (WHO) is also recommending for the first time that breast- feeding...

An official World Health Organization press release is warning that there could be a "reassortment" in which the H1N1 flu combines with the H5N1 virus to produce a completely new strain . A top Chinese scientist is warning that if...

As members of the federal government discuss and debate over the issues universal health care in the United States, researchers at the University of Chicago have released a health warning related to diabetes in America. Currently it is estimated that...

A new mutation of the swine flu, H1N1, a variant, in which the virus uses D225G as a receptor binding domain, causes bleeding in the lungs. Another H1N1 mutation results in the resistance to treatment with antiviral medication. With flu...

Khartoum: Said the latest statistics issued by the traffic management in Sudan, said incidents roads rose to more than 18 thousand incidents were reported during the period from January until late October. Sources confirmed that the number of deaths amounted...

Two dogs in Beijing have tested positive for swine flu in the second case of animals catching the disease in China along with pigs in the northeast, Chinese media said Sunday. The A(H1N1) virus detected in the dogs was 99...

Many patients need another service they're even less likely to get than routine prescription counseling: medication therapy management. This review of all the medications a patient is taking -- including over-the-counter medications, herbal products and dietary supplements, as well as...

Ontario cancer patients fighting colorectal tumours will now have extended access to a pricey drug. Two months after the province's ombudsperson said the previous 16-week cap on Avastin treatment "verges on cruelty," the Ministry of Health announced it was extending...