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Refugee Children Fleeing IS Receive First Vaccinations
An aid organization in Iraq has begun a vaccination campaign for children of refugees who fled Islamic State rule in Mosul. VOA’s Kawa Omar reports.
WHO on the Hong Kong H7N9 case
On 20 December 2016, the Department of Health , Hong Kong Special Administrative Region notified WHO of a case of laboratory-confirmed human infection with avian influenza A virus. The case is a 75-year-old man who travelled to Dongguan, Guangdong province from 28 November to 9 December 2016.
Brave Bury St Edmunds boy is chosen to be Ipswich Town’s Boxing Day mascot
A brave Bury St Edmunds boy who is undergoing treatment for cancer has been chosen to be Ipswich Town Football Club’s mascot at their Boxing Day match. Oliver Turner, aged five, was diagnosed in March with kidney cancer Wilms’ tumour and has had surgery to remove the tumour and his kidney.
Nail-painting cancer fundraiser goes viral
THE HAGUE: A terminally ill Dutch six-year-old, who hoped to raise a few hundred euros for other sick children by daring people to paint their nails in garish colours, had raised more than a 1 million by Friday. Tijn Kolsteren, who was diagnosed with brain cancer in May, launched the appeal only two days ago but it has quickly fired the imagination of the Dutch public who have donated 1,270,000 so far.
Nail-painting cancer fundraiser goes viral
THE HAGUE: A terminally ill Dutch six-year-old, who hoped to raise a few hundred euros for other sick children by daring people to paint their nails in garish colours, had raised more than a 1 million by Friday. Tijn Kolsteren, who was diagnosed with brain cancer in May, launched the appeal only two days ago but it has quickly fired the imagination of the Dutch public who have donated 1,270,000 so far.
Kidney Cancer Therapeutic and Drug Pipeline Review H2
PUNE, INDIA, December 23, 2016 / EINPresswire.com / — GET SAMPLE REPORT @ Summary Pharmaceutical and Healthcare disease pipeline guide Kidney Cancer – Pipeline Review, H2 2016, provides an overview of the Kidney Cancer pipeline landscape. Kidney cancer also called renal cancer is a disease in which kidney cells become malignant and grows out of control, forming a tumor.
Angola declares end to world’s worst yellow fever epidemic in decades
… More than 15 million Angolans and 10 million Congolese were vaccinated under a campaign coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO). In a statement entitled “The end of the epidemic of Yellow Fever in Angola”, the health ministry in Luanda …
Sunshine Coast, a Leading Drug Rehab and Alcohol Treatment Center,…
Sunshine Coast Health Centre is a leading drug rehabilitation and alcohol treatment program, serving patients in Powell River, British Columbia. The Centre welcomed a new counsellor to the staff last month.
City firefighter dies of cancer related to the line of duty
Funeral services as set for this Friday for the Lethbridge Fire Department Captain John Wagontall who died on Sunday after a battle with cancer related to the work of firefighting. Herald file photo by Ian Martens @IMartensHerald In 2006, he rode nearly 8,000 kilometres across Canada during a Cycle For Life campaign, raising awareness about prostate cancer and the importance of early detection – and raising almost $25,000.
We’re all in this together
… for planning permission. Another organisation to benefit was the Male Bag Foundation, known for promoting men’s health via road trips on old postman motorbikes. The donated funds went towards a prostate cancer biopsy machine probe, which would …
China confirms second human bird flu infection this week
Workers wearing protective suits cull ducks after some tested positive for H5 bird flu at a poultry farm in Aomori, northern Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo on Nov 29, 2016. – Reuters BEIJING: Chinese authorities have confirmed a second case of human bird flu infection this week, state media reported late on Wednesday, as South Korea and Japan battle to control outbreaks of the deadly virus.
China confirms second human bird flu infection this week
Workers wearing protective suits cull ducks after some tested positive for H5 bird flu at a poultry farm in Aomori, northern Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo on Nov 29, 2016. – Reuters BEIJING: Chinese authorities have confirmed a second case of human bird flu infection this week, state media reported late on Wednesday, as South Korea and Japan battle to control outbreaks of the deadly virus.
RAGE regulates key signaling pathway that promotes acute and chronic inflammation
… Editor-in-Chief, of DNA and Cell Biology and Professor, Departments of Biology and Neural Science, and Global Public Health at New York University, NY. “By developing new drugs to block the interaction of RAGE with its receptor, in the future, there …
RAGE regulates key signaling pathway that promotes acute and chronic inflammation
… Editor-in-Chief, of DNA and Cell Biology and Professor, Departments of Biology and Neural Science, and Global Public Health at New York University, NY. “By developing new drugs to block the interaction of RAGE with its receptor, in the future, there …
Research shows men have fewer children than women
Research on men’s birthrates have so far been rather a blind spot. Max Planck researchers have now calculated the missing age data for men using statistical methods.
Research shows men have fewer children than women
Research on men’s birthrates have so far been rather a blind spot. Max Planck researchers have now calculated the missing age data for men using statistical methods.
BRIEF-Health Platforms Inc says raises $5 mln in equity financing
* Health Platforms Inc disclosed in form D with the U.S. SEC that total offering amount was for $7 million Source text ( bit.ly/2hUrWE8 ) Dec 21 A U.S. jury in Ohio on Wednesday ordered DuPont to pay $2 million to a man who said he developed …
Bone Therapeutics Announces Its Financial Calendar for 2017
This schedule is indicative and subject to change. The calendar is also available on the Bone Therapeutics website under the heading Investors .
Blog: Where is the TV camera?
With Christmas fast approaching, the inflation of charitable events has been taking over Slovakia. Yes, it’s that time of the year when I wish people noticed that children’s hospitals have more wards than the “oncology” one.
Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: a mendelian randomisation study.
… HDL cholesterol will uniformly translate into reductions in risk of myocardial infarction. US National Institutes of Health, The Wellcome Trust, European Union, British Heart Foundation, and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. …
Chiropractor returns to Stawell
WELCOME: Ararat and Stawell Chiropractic receptionists Shelly Wadge and Carmen MacDonald welcome Dr Tyler Humphris back to Stawell. PICTURE: Anthony Piovesan Doctor Tyler Humphris has returned to Stawell after five years of study at the world renowned New Zealand College of Chiropractic in Auckland.
Chiropractor returns to Stawell
WELCOME: Ararat and Stawell Chiropractic receptionists Shelly Wadge and Carmen MacDonald welcome Dr Tyler Humphris back to Stawell. PICTURE: Anthony Piovesan Doctor Tyler Humphris has returned to Stawell after five years of study at the world renowned New Zealand College of Chiropractic in Auckland.
Dentists not smiling 5 years after fluoride removed from Moncton water
With the exception of dental fluorosis — which can cause white specks on an individual’s teeth — scientific studies have not found any credible links between adding fluoride to drinking water and adverse health effects. Dentists in Moncton, N.B., want city councilors to acknowledge a marked increase in tooth decay since they voted to stop adding fluoride to the municipal drinking water supply five years ago.
Dentists not smiling 5 years after fluoride removed from Moncton water
With the exception of dental fluorosis — which can cause white specks on an individual’s teeth — scientific studies have not found any credible links between adding fluoride to drinking water and adverse health effects. Dentists in Moncton, N.B., want city councilors to acknowledge a marked increase in tooth decay since they voted to stop adding fluoride to the municipal drinking water supply five years ago.
Threshold Pharmaceuticals and National Cancer Institute to Collaborate on Drug Candidate TH-3424
Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapies for cancer, today announced that it has entered into a collaboration with the National Cancer Institute , part of the National Institutes of Health , to study TH-3424, the company’s new drug candidate for the treatment of cancer. The collaboration will explore the effects of TH-3424 against T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia xenograft cell lines with high AKR1C3 expression.
South Korea, Japan step up poultry cull to contain bird flu
South Korean health officials disinfect a stream which migratory birds stay in winter temporarily, to prevent spread of bird flu in Pohang South Korea and Japan have ordered fresh culls of poultry stocks to contain outbreaks of avian flu, authorities in the two countries said. The South Korean Agriculture Ministry said on Monday it had ordered the cull of an additional 2.4 million birds, taking the total number to a record 18.4 million since the first outbreak of avian flu was reported at a farm on Nov. 18. It has called the outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N6 strain of bird flu more severe than the H5N8 strain that spread across the country in 2014 and 2015 before being brought under control.
[Kosdaq Star] Daehan New Pharm seeks growth in anti-cancer market
This is the 32nd in a series of articles analyzing major companies by market capitalization traded on the tech-heavy Kosdaq market. — Ed Daehan New Pharm, a Seoul-based pharmaceutical and animal health product provider, will start selling an anti-cancer supplement next year, entering the market for the first time.
Special cancer hospital in limbo
… cancer at a very early stage, spending several crores of rupees for the proposed hospital. On August 18 this year, health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the 200-bed cancer hospital at the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital would be inaugurated …
Deendayal katha
For the past three days, several ministers and key leaders in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh sat through two-hour-long recitals on Deendayal Upadhyaya’s life and philosophy, almost along the lines of the Ram katha , underscoring the Jana Sangh ideologue’s status within the parivar. Among those who sat and heard Alok Kumar, a senior RSS functionary, narrate the story of Upadhyaya’s life were chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Assembly Speaker Sitasharan Sharma, state party chief Nandkumar Chauhan and several ministers.
Sharp rise in premature kidney deaths
… failure deaths in adults with diabetes still in their 40s and 50s,” Prabhat Jha, director of the Centre for Global Health Research at the University of Toronto who led the study, told The Telegraph . “This suggests diabetes in Indian adults is …
Bruce Springsteen opens up about two important people – his wife and his father
… rug Helpline (open 24/7) – 0800 787 797. You can also text 8691 for free. For further information, contact the Mental Health Foundation’s free Resource and Information Service (09 623 4812).
Patient with cystic fibrosis records crying doctor showing up to…
… complains about how much paperwork he has to type up when Mr Williams is admitted to the hospital. Waikato District Health Board chief executive Nigel Murray said they would be ‘urgently contacting’ the physician to ‘take action and offer the …
South Korea: Zoos shut down as H5N6 bird flu approaches Seoul
… in the country’s disease control system. As a result, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said that health authorities are entitled to close any chicken farm or cote if necessary. On Sunday, a chicken farm in Gimpo, Gyeonggi …
Clean rivers campaign ramps up for summer
… Management, set in 2014, included a requirement for regional councils to manage freshwater bodies so people’s health is safeguarded, and carries a bottom line that applies to “wading” and boating. Smith told the lecture audience the Government was …
Japan culling 210,000 birds amid spreading avian flu
Japan has begun slaughtering about 210,000 farm birds in northern Hokkaido to contain another outbreak of a highly contagious strain of avian flu, an official said Sunday. It is the fifth mass cull this winter in Japan with hundreds of officials working to prevent the spread of the virulent H5 strain, which has been detected at several farms across the country.
Weslaco city leaders consider smoking ban
If approved, Weslaco would join Brownsville, Harlingen, Pharr, Mission, Edinburg and Alton as the seventh Rio Grande Valley community to adopt such regulations within its city limits.
ICED 2017 to bring global professionals together for improving lives of people with eating disorders
… features a keynote address by Professor Vikram Patel (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Public Health Foundation of India) titled Psychological Treatments for the World: Lessons from Global Mental Health for Eating Disorders. It …
Bird flu strain may have jumped from cat to human
… this would be the first known transmission of this bird flu strain from cat to human, officials said. New York City health officials said the vet has recovered from a mild illness, and there’s no sign that the flu has spread to shelter workers or …
Effects of Vascular and Nonvascular Adverse Events and of…
From the Health Economics Research Centre and Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit , Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. From the Health Economics Research Centre and Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit , Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.