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Behold: The World’s 10 Fattest Countries
Shanghai :: China | 13 days ago
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As the world has grown smaller, we’ve all grown larger — alarmingly so. In countries around the world, waistlines are expanding so rapidly that health experts recently coined a term for the epidemic: globesity. The common fat-o-meter among nations is...
Tags: The World Health Organization, China, Shanghai, Health Medical Pharma, Obesity, Metabolic disorders, Hospitality Recreation, Overweight, Epidemiology of obesity, Body shape, Body mass index, Nutrition, Bariatrics
N.S. mulls including sleeping pills in monitor program
London :: United Kingdom | 13 days ago
Credibility A 46-year-old man with no underlying medical conditions is Nova Scotia's sixth death related to the swine flu virus. Nova Scotia is deciding whether to include tranquillizers and sleeping pills in the list of drugs it tracks under a prescription monitoring...
Tags: swine flu, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, Nova Scotia, United States, Tamiflu, Britain, isolated cases, flu virus, The World Health Organization, United Kingdom, London, flu pandemic, Pandemics, Swine influenza, Health Medical Pharma, Influenza, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, Oseltamivir, Tamiflu resistance in the 2009 flu pandemic, Influenza pandemic, Animal virology, Epidemics, Health in the United States, Neuraminidase inhibitors, Influenza vaccine, Vaccines, Keiji Fukuda, Politics, flu pandemic in the United States by state, Social Issues, Communities in the Halifax Regional Municipality
H1N1 vaccine as safe as seasonal flu shot: WHO
Geneva :: Switzerland | 20 days ago
Credibility ET The Associated Press The World Health Organization has ruled out swine flu vaccine as a reason for the death of 41 people who had received the flu shot. WHO vaccines chief Marie-Paule Kieny said Thursday that investigations are continuing into several...
Tags: flu vaccinations, Marie-Paule Kieny, h1n1 vaccinations, swine flu, flu shots, seasonal flu, The World Health Organization, pandemic flu, Switzerland, Geneva, Immunology, Influenza, Influenza vaccine, flu pandemic vaccine, Influenza pandemic, Pandemics, Vaccines, Prevention, Health Medical Pharma, flu pandemic, Influenza pandemics, Swine influenza, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, Animal virology
96% of kidney recipients pay the donor: Survey
Jalīb aš-Šuyūẖ :: Kuwait | 22 days ago
Credibility Under Kuwait's 1987 Organ Transplant Law, the selling and buying of human organs is illegal; the law allows the donation of organs during life or after death for free. According to Dr Mustafa Al-Mousawi, head of Kuwait's Hamad Al-Essa Organ Transplant...
Tags: organ trafficking, Kuwait Transplant Society, Dr Mustafa Al-Mousawi, Francis Delmonico, organ transplantation, kidney recipient, organ donors, The World Health Organization, organ sales, China, Kuwait, Jalīb aš-Šuyūẖ
Culture, communications play role in disease control
Kampala :: Uganda | 24 days ago
Credibility Even villagers who believe a disease is caused by malignant winds have traditions that help them survive epidemics. Vancouver anthropologist Barry Hewlett, who researches cultural practices in central Africa, has lent that perspective to the World Health...
Tags: Bonnie Hewlett, Barry Hewlett, Ebola, Africa, The World Health Organization, central africa, Uganda, Kampala, Tropical diseases, Zoonoses, Outbreak, flu pandemic, Mononegavirales, Viral diseases, Health Medical Pharma
Glaxo study backs simultaneous flu jabs
Geneva :: Switzerland | about 1 month ago
Credibility The research – requested by regulators and keenly awaited by governments tackling the current H1N1 “swine flu” pandemic – should ease international concern about the provision of both vaccines and help accelerate vaccination programmes. It comes at a...
Tags: GlaxoSmithKline, swine flu, flu vaccination, The World Health Organization, GSK, million doses
EU experts say some countries 'ambushe' by H1N1
Geneva :: Switzerland | about 1 month ago
Credibility EU experts say some countries 'ambushe' by H1N1 Some countries have been "ambushed" by sudden severe outbreaks of disease and death from the H1N1 flu pandemic, and have gone over the top in their response, a European flu specialist said on Friday. ...
Tags: Dr. Keiji Fukuda, The World Health Organization, flu virus, swine flu, h1n1 flu, influenza virus, dominant influenza, northern hemisphere, dominant flu, h1n1 virus
WHO pandemic definition too broad, doctor contends
Toronto :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility Last updated on Monday, Nov. 02, 2009 5:03PM EST T he World Health Organization's definition of what constitutes a pandemic is too broad, according to an article published this week. Peter Gross, infectious disease specialist with the Hackensack University...
Tags: Dr. Peter Gross, false alarms, disease specialist, infectious disease, The World Health Organization
WHO chief says Fidel Castro "looks wonderful"
Havana :: Cuba | about 1 month ago
Credibility Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro "looks wonderful," World Health Organization director general Margaret Chan said on Wednesday, after meeting the 83-year-old who resigned the presidency last year due to ailing health. Chan, speaking at the end of her...
Tags: Fidel Castro, Mr Castro, Taylor Mitchell, CIA, Cuban, Dr Margaret Chan, The World Health Organization, Ahmed Wali Karzai, coyotes attack, Hamid Karzai
Outrage on all sides
Ottawa :: Canada | 2 months ago
Credibility O pposition parties all worked to express their outrage in Question Period over a Health Canada move to send body bags to a First Nations community in Manitoba. And the government tried to make sure they expressed even more outrage. Liberal MP Todd Russell...
Tags: body bags, swine flu, Gregory Hartl, Health Canada, spokesman gregory, flu vaccination, million doses, h1n1 vaccination, billion doses, The World Health Organization, Canada, Ottawa
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