More than half of family doctors in Canada use outdated methods to measure blood pressure and it’s leading to a misdiagnoses in a number of patients, a Canadian study found. According to researchers at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre , about 20 per cent of people getting treatment for hypertension don’t actually have it, and it’s mainly due to improperly measured blood pressure with older instruments.
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Sewage plague threatens Jones Town
If an epidemic broke out it in a poor section of Kingston, it would quickly affect the better-off areas as the poor people go to work in those communities and work as cleaners and domestics. There is real danger that the untreated sewage flowing on to Benbow Street in Jones Town could lead to an outbreak in cholera that might trigger the deaths of Jamaicans.
Vienna zoo puts down its pelicans because of bird flu
In this undated photo provided by the Schoenbrunn Zoo a flock of pelicans is pictured at the zoo in Vienna, Austria. The zoo has euthanized its flock of 20 Dalmatian pelicans after examinations showed them infected with bird flu.
Malaysian poultry banned over deadly avian flu
Imports of poultry meat and eggs from a region of Malaysia has been banned immediately as a result of an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 avian flu, food safety authorities said. The Centre for Food Safety announced that it had been informed by the World Organisation for Animal Health about an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in Kota Bharu District in Kelantan State, Malaysia.
UN Rights Chief Decries Trump’s US Immigration Policies
Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein chronicled a litany of human rights concerns worldwide, including “chilling indifference” among some leaders in the European Union toward migrants, a crackdown on lawyers and activists in China, and a new Russian law that may have been used “arbitrarily” to curb free expression. The US was among more than 40 countries examined in a wide-ranging speech on Wednesday, where the United Nations was warned that 2017 could prove to be a “pivotal year” for human rights amid terror attacks, security crackdowns, populism and the rise of “authoritarian-minded leaders”.
UN Rights Chief Decries Trump’s US Immigration Policies
Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein chronicled a litany of human rights concerns worldwide, including “chilling indifference” among some leaders in the European Union toward migrants, a crackdown on lawyers and activists in China, and a new Russian law that may have been used “arbitrarily” to curb free expression. The US was among more than 40 countries examined in a wide-ranging speech on Wednesday, where the United Nations was warned that 2017 could prove to be a “pivotal year” for human rights amid terror attacks, security crackdowns, populism and the rise of “authoritarian-minded leaders”.
Ex-minister Mayanja Nkangi dies aged 85
Former justice and constitutional affairs minister Joash Mayanja Nkangi has died at the age of 85, according to his family. His daughter, Josephine Mayanja, later confirmed his passing to New Vision on phone on Monday.
Bird Flu Found at Commercial Chicken Farm in Tennessee, USDA Says
A strain of bird flu has been found in a commercial chicken farm in Tennessee, the US Department of Agriculture and state government agencies said Sunday. The H7 strain of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, or HPAI, was found in a flock of 73,500 chickens in Lincoln County, in the central part of the state on the border with Alabama, the USDA said.
Bird flu found at commercial chicken farm in Tennessee, USDA says
A strain of bird flu has been found in a commercial chicken farm in Tennessee, the US Department of Agriculture and state government agencies said Sunday. The H7 strain of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, or HPAI, was found in a flock of 73,500 chickens in Lincoln County, in the central part of the state on the border with Alabama, the USDA said.
Art exhibition donates A 62,000 to Suffolk cancer charity
From left to righ, Karen Hare, CEO CCiS, Tim Cutler and Jonny Ripman , Trustees of CCiS, Emma Lloyd, Adrian Melrose and Belinda Gray, all directors of Art For Cure, at the presentation of the cheque for A 62,000. Organisers of one of the region’s biggest charity art events have donated 62,000 to Cancer Campaign in Suffolk.
A contagious common cold is spreading across Oman.
Muscat: A contagious common cold is spreading across Oman, doctors said on Tuesday. Dr Pradeep Maheshwari, specialist of internal medicine at the Atlas Hospital, Ruwi, said patients suffering from cough, cold and fever are crowding the hospital.
A contagious common cold is spreading across Oman.
Muscat: A contagious common cold is spreading across Oman, doctors said on Tuesday. Dr Pradeep Maheshwari, specialist of internal medicine at the Atlas Hospital, Ruwi, said patients suffering from cough, cold and fever are crowding the hospital.
The Christian Charity Bringing Syrians Children To Israel For Lifesaving Heart Surgery
It’s an interfaith effort: a Christian charity funded by private donors is bringing Syrian refugee children into Israel for heart surgery. Shevet Achim , whose name means “brothers dwelling together,” has been quietly arrange transport for Syrian youngsters from their countries of refuge into Israeli hospitals.
Rihanna Named Harvard’s Humanitarian of the Year
Rihanna attends the BRIT Awards 2016 at The O2 Arena on February 24, 2016 in London, England. Harvard announced Wednesday that she’s being honored as its humanitarian of the year.
New manager Dion Webster at the Oxford Wellbeing Centre in New Inn Hall Street
A ‘FAST access’ centre for young people facing mental health difficulties to get treatment has opened its doors in the heart of Oxford. Independent provider The Priory Group, which runs private mental healthcare hospitals and clinics across the UK, has set up a ‘Wellbeing Centre’ in New Inn Hall Street.
‘I really want my story to prove ADHD isn’t what people stereotype it to be, it’s so much more’
A MAN with Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is aiming to raise awareness of the condition with the launch of a charity single. Ryan Swain, who lives in Malton with his partner Natalia and identical twin girls Ivy and Isla, who are nearly two, said he was 18 years old before he was officially diagnosed with ADHD.
‘I really want my story to prove ADHD isn’t what people stereotype it to be, it’s so much more’
A MAN with Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is aiming to raise awareness of the condition with the launch of a charity single. Ryan Swain, who lives in Malton with his partner Natalia and identical twin girls Ivy and Isla, who are nearly two, said he was 18 years old before he was officially diagnosed with ADHD.
‘I really want my story to prove ADHD isn’t what people stereotype it to be, it’s so much more’
A MAN with Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is aiming to raise awareness of the condition with the launch of a charity single. Ryan Swain, who lives in Malton with his partner Natalia and identical twin girls Ivy and Isla, who are nearly two, said he was 18 years old before he was officially diagnosed with ADHD.
Kenyan pastors offer young people a token of love
The Rev. Geoffrey Wanjala Munialo hands a rose and gift to Mary Mutua, a youth living with HIV, on Valentine’s Day in Nairobi, Kenya, on Feb. 14, 2017.
B.C. Appeal Court orders province to give up data in smoking lawsuit
The British Columbia government must hand over information about patients that tobacco giant Phillip Morris International says it needs to fight the province’s efforts to recover health-care costs from tobacco-related diseases. In a unanimous decision released Tuesday, the B.C. Court of Appeal upheld a lower court order that Phillip Morris be given access to the raw data used by the province in 2001 when it filed its lawsuit against 13 tobacco companies.
Mithra Granted EUR 1.9 million in Non-Dilutive Funding
Mithra Pharmaceuticals , a company focused on women’s health, today announces that it has been granted EUR 1.9 million in non-dilutive funding1 from the Walloon Region. The grant follows a decision by the VicePresident and Minister for Economy, Industry, Innovation and New Technologies, Mr Jean-Claude Marcourt.
South Korea to import 4.8 million vaccines against foot-and-mouth disease
A health officer checks a cattle in a farm in Gimje as a preventive measure against foot-and-mouth disease after South Korea on Monday confirmed a case of food-and-mouth at a dairy farm elsewhere in the country, South Korea, February 6, 2017. Moon Yo-han/News1 via South Korea’s agriculture ministry said on Monday it will import 4.8 million doses of foot-and-mouth vaccine by the end of this month in an effort to prevent further spread of the viral disease.
Tom Price sworn in as health and human services secretary
Rep. Tom Price of Georgia was sworn in Friday as health and human services secretary, setting the stage for the conservative to play a leading role in dismantling President Barack Obama’s health care law. Vice President Mike Pence administered the oath to Price hours after he won Senate confirmation on a narrow 52-47 vote early Friday.
Researchers call this year’s flu vaccine effectiveness ‘decent’
This season’s influenza vaccine is estimated to have been more than 40 per cent effective in preventing illness with the dominant H3N2 viral strain in Canadians who got their shots, a national network of infectious diseases experts says. The Canadian Sentinel Practitioner Surveillance Network determines vaccine effectiveness by analyzing how many inoculated people tested positive for the flu virus compared to those who were unvaccinated.
Researchers call this year’s flu vaccine effectiveness ‘decent’
This season’s influenza vaccine is estimated to have been more than 40 per cent effective in preventing illness with the dominant H3N2 viral strain in Canadians who got their shots, a national network of infectious diseases experts says. The Canadian Sentinel Practitioner Surveillance Network determines vaccine effectiveness by analyzing how many inoculated people tested positive for the flu virus compared to those who were unvaccinated.
U.S. officials stop vetting Nauru refugees for resettlement – Wed, 08 Feb 2017 PST
In this Sept. 21, 2001, file photo, men shave, brush their teeth and prepare for the day at a refugee camp on the Island of Nauru.
Family doctors looking to end perscriptions for minor illnesses to save money
PATIENTS are set to be told to pay for their own medication in a bid to save hundreds of thousands of pounds. Plans have been unveiled by Blackburn with Darwen CCG to recoup A 663,000 per year by refusing to prescribe everything from pain relief and indigestion medication to head lice treatments, anti-histamines and sun creams.
Study finds new bacterial strain can contaminate shellfish
Scientists studying oysters along the Atlantic Coast have discovered a critical clue to understanding why more seafood lovers are getting sick from eating shellfish. Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have found a new strain of the bacteria Vibrio parahaemolyticus, the world’s leading culprit of contamination in shellfish that, when eaten, causes diarrhea, vomiting and abdominal pain.
No smoking
Year 8 pupils from Cyfarthfa High School in Merthyr Tydfil have designed posters to try and stop people smoking outside their hospitals On a crisp afternoon a group of school children stand outside Prince Charles Hospital holding their handmade no smoking posters. As ambulances pull up outside the Merthyr Tydfil A&E department, the 10 and 11 year-olds watch as patients and visitors light up, puffing smoke into the air.
Spring Festival a bitter time for China’s – shidu’ parents
CHINA: The English language has no term to describe a parent whose child has died. When fathers and mothers die, their children are called orphans.
Diabetes or its rapid deterioration can be an early warning sign for pancreatic cancer
Patients and their doctors should be aware that the onset of diabetes, or a rapid deterioration in existing diabetes that requires more aggressive treatment, could be a sign of early, hidden pancreatic cancer, according to research presented at the European Cancer Congress 2017 today . Ms Alice Koechlin, from the International Prevention Research Institute in Lyon, France, told the meeting that an analysis linking nearly a million patients with type 2 diabetes in Lombardy and Belgium with recorded cases of pancreatic cancer showed that 50% of all pancreatic cancers cases in the two regions were diagnosed within one year of patients being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and being given their first prescription to control it.
Flu is breaking out; surprising studies reveal the cause and how you can protect your child
Watching for the first dip in temperature could protect your family from the annual influx of illness. Here’s what you need to know: Here are the facts Seasonal flu breaks out after the winter’s first cold spell.
In Enugu: HIV cases decreasing
The Enugu State Agency for the Control of AIDS has disclosed that the number of those living with Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus has reduced from 5.1 per cent to 4.9 per cent in the state. “As at 2010, the prevalence rate was 5.1 per cent but today, it has come down to 4.9 per cent from the study carried out recently.’
Examining Finland’s tobacco-free plan
The Finnish government has set an ambitious goal for residents in a bid to benefit their health — and their bank balances. Officials plan to make the country tobacco-free by 2040, meaning they want less than 2% of their adults to consume tobacco — in any form — by that deadline.
The Royal College of Surgeons has said there is ‘no clinical justification’ for their plans
The Royal College of Surgeons has hit out at cost-cutting plans to ration who can receive hip and knee replacements. Three Clinical Commissioning Groups in the West Midlands have proposed slashing the number of people who qualify for hip replacements by 12% and introducing a 19% cut over who is eligible for knee replacements.
Vicki Jellie, the unsung cancer widow turned Australia Day Local Hero keeping families together
Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer View text version of this page Help using this website – Accessibility statement Join today and you can easily save your favourite articles, join in the conversation and comment, plus select which news your want direct to your inbox. As her husband Peter lay dying of oesophageal cancer, Vicki Jellie wasted too many hours driving from their home in regional Victoria to be at his bedside in hospital.
With Trump’s swearing-in, Israel pushes ahead on settlements
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton says he’s been diagnosed with prostate cancer but will finish the final two years of his term Stark contrasts in U.S. cancer death rates were found in an exhaustive new analysis that suggests where you live contributes to your fate One black bear cub has been rescued by Virginia wildlife officials after it was discovered in a den without its mother Dippin’ Dots has apparently found a way to begin thawing out its relationship with President Donald Trump’s press secretary, Sean Spicer, who has been sending critical tweets about the company since 2010 The wife of the founder of a ramshackle Oakland artists’ colony where dozens of people burned to death in a fire last month says she’s sorry about what happened but is angry about what she called “pretty terrible”… The partner of the founder of an Oakland artists’ colony where dozens of people burned to death in a … (more)
With Trump’s swearing-in, Israel pushes ahead on settlements
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton says he’s been diagnosed with prostate cancer but will finish the final two years of his term Stark contrasts in U.S. cancer death rates were found in an exhaustive new analysis that suggests where you live contributes to your fate One black bear cub has been rescued by Virginia wildlife officials after it was discovered in a den without its mother Dippin’ Dots has apparently found a way to begin thawing out its relationship with President Donald Trump’s press secretary, Sean Spicer, who has been sending critical tweets about the company since 2010 The wife of the founder of a ramshackle Oakland artists’ colony where dozens of people burned to death in a fire last month says she’s sorry about what happened but is angry about what she called “pretty terrible”… The partner of the founder of an Oakland artists’ colony where dozens of people burned to death in a … (more)
Health Alert (Australia) January 23, 2017
Commonwealth. Federal Court 13 January 2017 – Selia v Commonwealth of Australia [2017] FCA 7 – ADMINISTRATIVE LAW – Judicial Review – Professional Services Review Scheme under Part VAA of the Health Insurance Act 1973 – where Professional Services Review Committee found applicant dentist engaged in ‘inappropriate practice’ as defined in s 82 – meaning of ‘initiating’ in s 82 – where applicant billed Medicare for dental services in advance of rendering – where dental services provided by dentists employed by applicant were billed using applicant’s medicare provider number – where Determining Authority directed applicant should be reprimanded, counselled and required to repay amount to first respondent – whether pre-billing can constitute ‘inappropriate practice’ – whether conduct of applicant in billing services provided by employees under his medicare number can constitute ‘inappropriate … (more)
Health Alert (Australia) January 23, 2017
Commonwealth. Federal Court 13 January 2017 – Selia v Commonwealth of Australia [2017] FCA 7 – ADMINISTRATIVE LAW – Judicial Review – Professional Services Review Scheme under Part VAA of the Health Insurance Act 1973 – where Professional Services Review Committee found applicant dentist engaged in ‘inappropriate practice’ as defined in s 82 – meaning of ‘initiating’ in s 82 – where applicant billed Medicare for dental services in advance of rendering – where dental services provided by dentists employed by applicant were billed using applicant’s medicare provider number – where Determining Authority directed applicant should be reprimanded, counselled and required to repay amount to first respondent – whether pre-billing can constitute ‘inappropriate practice’ – whether conduct of applicant in billing services provided by employees under his medicare number can constitute ‘inappropriate … (more)