Somalia and three other countries desperately need aid to save more than 20 million people from starvation and diseases, the United Nations said. UN humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien pleaded with the world to come to the rescue of Kenya, Yemen, South Sudan and Somalia.
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New case of mad cow disease found in Spain
The Ministry of Agriculture had found a new case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy or mad cow disease, which does not pose a threat to the Spanish health system, according to the Europapress news agency. The case was indentified in the village of Horcajo Medianero in Salamanca Province.
Doctors tie Zika virus to heart problems in some adults
The evidence so far is only in eight people in Venezuela, and is not enough to prove a link. It’s also too soon to know how often this might be happening.
Doctors tie Zika virus to heart problems in some adults
The evidence so far is only in eight people in Venezuela, and is not enough to prove a link. It’s also too soon to know how often this might be happening.
Avian influenza global spread raises concerns for next human pandemic
In South Korea 35 million poultry have been destroyed following the worst outbreak of avian influenza ever seen in the country. Various strains of the virus have spread globally over the past two years, creating concern among scientists about the next pandemic.
Somalia on the brink of famine
Last straw: Saida Mousseh Mohammed Hassan, a nomad near the village of Uusgure in the northeast of Somalia, has lost most of her goats to the drought. United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres this week urged the international community to take action to avert famine in Somalia, where a biting drought has left three million people without food.
World Kidney Day: Chronic kidney diseases on rise in sub urban India
… This can be attributed to the fact that 70 percent of our population lives in rural areas and have limited access to health care facilities. This results in the delayed diagnosis of kidney disease. Talking about the causative factors that lead to …
Somalia: ‘People are dying of hunger…there’s no water’
Her three-year-old daughter Shankaron sits on her lap, eyes blank and scared. It is a look that is far too common in these parts.
‘A nightmare:’ UN chief urges help for Somalia hunger crisis
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, right, stands as Somali president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed addresses the media in Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Guterres is conducting high level talks including with Somalia’s new President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, to start of what he calls an emergency visit to highlight the country’s famine crisis.
UN chief in Somalia on emergency visit to focus on famine
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has started what he calls an emergency visit to Somalia to focus on the country’s famine crisis. “People are dying.
Press Digest- New York Times business news – March 7
… long-awaited plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, scrapping the mandate for most Americans to have health insurance in favor of a new system of tax credits to induce people to buy insurance on the open market. nyti.ms/2mv4nG8 – Monday …
South China’s Guangxi reports two more H7N9 cases
Two more human cases of H7N9 bird flu were reported in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Monday, bringing the total number of infections to eight in the region this year. The two patients, from the cities of Baise and Wuzhou, are in critical condition, said a statement issued by the regional health and family planning commission.
More than 100 die from hunger in Somalia
Somalia’s Prime Minister, Hassan Ali Haire, says 110 people have died from hunger in a single region in the past 48 hours amid a severe drought. The figure for the south-western Bay region is the first official death toll announced during the crisis.
Fostering foster care
Foster care for abused, neglected and dependent children is in a “state of crisis” in North Carolina, according to state officials and others studying the issue. Ideally, foster care finds good homes on a temporary basis for youngsters and teens who cannot live with their own families for a variety of reasons – homelessness, parent illness or alcohol and drug abuse.
Severe drought in Somalia leaves 110 people dead from starvation
Somalia’s prime minister said yesterday that 110 people have died from hunger in the past 48 hours in a single region – the first death toll announced in a severe drought threatening millions of people across the country. Somalia’s government declared the drought a national disaster on Tuesday.
AIDS Walk Houston 2017: Red Umbrella Stroll
Thanks to advances in treatment, HIV/AIDS has become a manageable disease, but the fight to end this epidemic isn’t over.
110 people die in 48 hours in drought-stricken Somalia
Somalia’s Prime Minister said 110 people had died from hunger in the past 48 hours in a single region – the first death toll announced in a severe drought threatening millions of people across the country. The United Nations estimates 5 million people in this Horn of Africa nation need aid, amid warnings of a full-blown famine.
Hassan Ali Khaire: Hunger, disease kill 110 in two days
Prime minister calls on citizens to help as hunger resulting from drought leads to rise in deaths in the Bay region. Somalia’s prime minister has announced the deaths of at least 110 people due to hunger and diarrhoea in the country over the past 48 hours amid a drought in the Bay region.
Somalia Says 110 Dead From Hunger in Past 48 Hours Because of Drought
Somalia's prime minister announced Saturday that 110 people have died from hunger in the past 48 hours in a single region as a severe drought threatens millions of people across the country. It was the first death toll announced by Somalia's government since it declared the drought a national disaster on Tuesday.
Somalia: 110 dead from hunger in past 48 hours in drought
Somalia’s prime minister announced Saturday that 110 people have died from hunger in the past 48 hours in a single region as a severe drought threatens millions of people across the country. It was the first death toll announced by Somalia’s government since it declared the drought a national disaster on Tuesday.
Pain pill alternative is being abused
Pain pill alternative is being abused A non-narcotic pain pill that led the state in prescriptions in December is becoming more widely abused. Check out this story on portclintonnewsherald.com: http://ohne.ws/2lmsV55 This week, the Ohio Substance Abuse Monitoring Network issued an alert that abuse of gabapentin, more commonly known by the brand name Neurontin, has been on the rise over the past six months, especially by those with a history of abuse to heroin and prescription pain pills.
UN sees bird flu changes but calls risk of people spread low
The World Health Organization says it has noticed changes in the bird flu virus now spreading in China, but says the risk of the disease spreading easily between people remains low. The genetic mutations have been seen from birds and infected people, but because flu viruses change constantly, experts aren’t exactly sure how significant the differences may be.
‘Make some noise’ for safe, supportive HIV/AIDS care, says UN on Zero Discrimination Day
… UN Programme on HIV/AIDS ( UNAIDS ), in his message for Zero Discrimination Day. “Eliminating discrimination in health-care settings is critical, and we must demand that it become a reality,” Mr. SidibA added. The right to health is …
UN sees bird flu changes but calls risk of people spread low
The World Health Organization says it has noticed mutations in the bird flu virus now spreading in China, but says the risk of the disease spreading easily between people remains low. In a press briefing Wednesday, the U.N. health agency said in about 7 percent of the people infected with the H7N9 strain of bird flu, scientists have identified genetic changes suggesting the viruses are resistant to Tamiflu, the recommended treatment for the disease and the drug that is being stockpiled worldwide in preparation for a flu pandemic.
Drug combination defeats dengue, Ebola in mice, Stanford study finds
… now at Gilead Sciences Inc., and Gregory Neveu, PhD, now at the University of Lyon and French National Institute of Health and Medical Research. The reason the drugs used in the study are able to combat infections by such different viruses is that …
Bowel cancer soaring among younger people
Young adults are facing a bowel cancer “time bomb” because of their unhealthy diets and lack of exercise, scientists warn. ‘Millennials’ – those born around 1990 – are four times more likely to develop rectal tumours, which begin in the large intestine, compared to those born in about 1950.
Bowel cancer soaring among younger people
Young adults are facing a bowel cancer “time bomb” because of their unhealthy diets and lack of exercise, scientists warn. ‘Millennials’ – those born around 1990 – are four times more likely to develop rectal tumours, which begin in the large intestine, compared to those born in about 1950.
Somalia’s new leader declares drought a national disaster
Somalia’s new president has declared a national disaster over a drought that threatens millions of people and is creating fears of a full-blown famine. Displaced Somalis wait to fill plastic containers with water in a camp in the capital Mogadishu Somalia’s new president has declared a national disaster over a drought that threatens millions of people and is creating fears of a full-blown famine.
Somalia’s new leader declares drought a national disaster
Somalia’s new president has declared a national disaster over a drought that threatens millions of people and is creating fears of a full-blown famine. Displaced Somalis wait to fill plastic containers with water in a camp in the capital Mogadishu Somalia’s new president has declared a national disaster over a drought that threatens millions of people and is creating fears of a full-blown famine.
Colorectal cancer rates rising sharply among Gen X and millennials
Rates of colorectal cancer, which overall have been declining for decades in the United States, are instead rising sharply among young and middle-aged adults, according to a new study that startled researchers and is sparking questions about whether screening should start earlier than age 50. The study, published Tuesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, found that between the mid-1980s and 2013, colon cancer rates increased about 1 to 2 percent per year for people in their 20s and 30s. Rates for middle-aged adults also rose, but at a slower pace.
Colorectal cancer rates rising sharply among Gen X and millennials
Rates of colorectal cancer, which overall have been declining for decades in the United States, are instead rising sharply among young and middle-aged adults, according to a new study that startled researchers and is sparking questions about whether screening should start earlier than age 50. The study, published Tuesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, found that between the mid-1980s and 2013, colon cancer rates increased about 1 to 2 percent per year for people in their 20s and 30s. Rates for middle-aged adults also rose, but at a slower pace.
Young people more likely to develop bowel cancer
Unprecedented numbers of young people are being diagnosed with bowel cancer – due to poor diets and lack of exercise, a study warns. Millennials – those born between 1980 and 1995 – are four times more likely to develop rectal tumors stemming from the large intestine compared to those born around 1950.
Young people more likely to develop bowel cancer
Unprecedented numbers of young people are being diagnosed with bowel cancer – due to poor diets and lack of exercise, a study warns. Millennials – those born between 1980 and 1995 – are four times more likely to develop rectal tumors stemming from the large intestine compared to those born around 1950.
Our People: Q&A with Darrin Johnson
… director of a CDC-funded study called the Online Safe Space Initiative and working full-time on his doctorate in Health Services Research. The term “overachiever” doesn’t quite cover it. In the past, Johnson has had a decade of experience working on …
No herbal medicine cures HIV /AIDS – GAC
… ensuring access to care by victims to help reduce viral load. The NSP would achieve its set targets by strengthened health systems, increased health facilities and staff as well as piloting self-testing and peer-led testing for HIV. Currently, the …
McAuliffe signs bills fighting opioid crisis, including measures from Wexton, LaRock
… said Dr. Sean Kelly, who is a practicing emergency physician and the chief medical officer of Imprivata, a health care information technology company. Kelly said that electronic prescribing for controlled substances, or EPCS, helps the health care …
Almost 2,000 opioid-related deaths in Massachusetts show fentanyl dangers rising
The increasing number of opioid-related deaths in Massachusetts show the state is one of the hardest hit in the nation by the growth of the highly-potent opioid fentanyl. The number of deaths related to opioids in Massachusetts has risen exponentially in recent years reaching an estimated 1,979 deaths this year, a sharp rise from 918 deaths in 2013, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health .
A benign circle: how a combination of factors has reduced HIV…
A benign circle: how a combination of factors has reduced HIV infections in one of the hardest-hit parts of Africa HIV incidence has started to tumble in one of the best-studied groups of people in Africa, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections heard in Seattle today. The annual infection rate has fallen 40% in the last four years, the conference was told.
New HIV infections fall in the US, but demographic and geographic disparities persist
Public domain image by the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention www.cdc.gov The number of annual new HIV infections in the US fell by 18% overall since 2008, offering evidence that prevention and treatment efforts are having an impact, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released on Tuesday to coincide with presentations at the 2017 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Seattle. A closer look at the data, however, shows some notable differences across demographic groups and geographic regions.
State lawmakers channel grief into fight against opioids
… of a heroin overdose in 2011. The lawmakers’ personal stories have lent weight to the effort to combat what public health officials have deemed a full-blown epidemic that is fast approaching the severity of the AIDS outbreak of the 1980s and ’90s. …