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Bangkok (dpa) - Health officials in the US and Europe may soon be visiting South-East Asia for updates on the most effective means of fighting dengue fever, traditionally a poor countries' disease. A dengue outbreak was reported at the beginning of this year in Madeira, Portugal, and in 2010 there were cases of dengue recorded in Nice, France. In 2010, there were also a score of reported cases of locally...

2013-06-13T09:05:00Z2013-06-19T14:20:20Zuuid:9ebbaa7b-a076-4830-8a73-13957cc7e57d;id=3

A new poll suggests men don't mature until they reach 43 - 11 years after women finally grow up, at age 32. Eighty per cent of women surveyed by Nickelodeon UK also believed that men "never stop being childish". Women cited typical male immature behaviour, including breaking wind, burping and eating fast food in the early morning hours. Other signs of immaturity women frowned on included being passive-aggressive...

2013-06-13T04:17:10Z2013-06-19T14:20:20Zuuid:9ebbaa7b-a076-4830-8a73-13957cc7e57d;id=4

Electronic cigarettes are to be licensed as a medicine in the U.K. from 2016. Britain currently has few restrictions on the use of e-cigarettes, although some countries have moved to ban them. E-cigarettes are to be regulated as medicines when new European tobacco laws come into force. Sales of tobacco-free cigarettes have soared worldwide since bans on public smoking were introduced, but activists...

2013-06-13T04:17:07Z2013-06-19T14:20:20Zuuid:9ebbaa7b-a076-4830-8a73-13957cc7e57d;id=5

Bangkok (dpa) - Fahad Albusaidi had never heard of Bumrungrad Hospital until he arrived in Bangkok from Oman, accompanying his mother who was booked for treatment. "If you speak to anyone in Arabic and say Bumrungrad, they will not get it," said Albusaidi, while waiting for his mother to receive a check-up. "But if you say American Hospital, they will know exactly." Bumrungrad Hospital started promoting...

2013-06-10T13:05:00Z2013-06-19T14:20:20Zuuid:9ebbaa7b-a076-4830-8a73-13957cc7e57d;id=6

New research suggests that malnutrition is responsible for 45 per cent of the global deaths of children under the age of five. Poor nutrition leads to the deaths of about 3.1 million under-fives annually, according to the report in the Lancet medical journal, and the first 1,000 days of life - from conception to two years - has lasting consequences for health. Prof Robert Black, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg...

2013-06-07T04:17:04Z2013-06-19T14:20:20Zuuid:9ebbaa7b-a076-4830-8a73-13957cc7e57d;id=7

At least 14 Californians - including two people in the Bay Area - have been infected in an outbreak of hepatitis A connected to frozen berries, and that number will almost definitely increase in the coming days and weeks, public health officials say. But there's one group of people unlikely to get sick: kids. That's because most of them are vaccinated against hepatitis A. A vaccine to prevent infection...

2013-06-06T04:40:00Z2013-06-19T14:20:20Zuuid:9ebbaa7b-a076-4830-8a73-13957cc7e57d;id=8

ATLANTA - Prostate screening tests detect prostate cancer early, but questions about whether the tests do more harm than good have made them one of the most hotly debated areas of medicine. Some doctors and researchers believe testing for PSA, which stands for prostate-specific antigen, leads to unnecessary, costly and even harmful medical procedures because so many early diagnoses are slow-growing...

2013-06-05T23:20:00Z2013-06-19T14:20:20Zuuid:9ebbaa7b-a076-4830-8a73-13957cc7e57d;id=9

A new campaign has been launched in the U.K. to remind smokers of the dangers of second-hand smoke. The TV and online adverts will outline the risk adults pose to children when they light up in cars and homes. Chief medical officer Professor Dame Sally Davies says, "It's well known that smoking kills, but many smokers still don't realise the damage their smoke causes to those around them. Our message...

2013-06-05T04:17:07Z2013-06-19T14:20:20Zuuid:9ebbaa7b-a076-4830-8a73-13957cc7e57d;id=10

Riyadh (dpa) - Three more people have died in Saudi Arabia from a SARS-like coronavirus, health authorities said Thursday, bringing to 21 the number of deaths from the disease in the kingdom. The three victims of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) were all Saudis and died in the country's Eastern Province, where most cases have been recorded, the Health Ministry said. They...

2013-05-30T17:08:00Z2013-06-19T14:20:20Zuuid:9ebbaa7b-a076-4830-8a73-13957cc7e57d;id=11

Paris (dpa) - A Frenchman diagnosed last month with coronavirus died Tuesday, becoming the first fatality from the SARS-like illness in France, the health ministry said. The 65-year-old man who presented with symptoms of the respiratory illness after a visit to Dubai and Saudi Arabia died in hospital in the northern town of Lille. Another man who contracted the virus after sharing a hospital room with...

2013-05-28T21:06:00Z2013-06-19T14:20:20Zuuid:9ebbaa7b-a076-4830-8a73-13957cc7e57d;id=12

Berlin (dpa) - Visual and audible alarms which warn motorists if they are too fatigued to continue driving can actually encourage drivers to stay at the wheel longer, says a doctor in the German capital Berlin. According to psychologist Katja Karrer-Gauss from the Technical University (TU), such tiredness-alert systems can be deceptive. "If such a system suggests a feeling of safety, people are generally...

2013-05-23T10:05:00Z2013-06-19T14:20:20Zuuid:9ebbaa7b-a076-4830-8a73-13957cc7e57d;id=13

A strain of bacteria has been discovered that can infect mosquitoes and make the insects resistant to the malaria parasite. In the study, in the journal Science, researchers showed the parasite struggled to survive in infected mosquitoes. Since malaria is spread between people by the insects, it is hoped that giving mosquitoes malaria immunity could reduce human cases and experts claim this was a first,...

2013-05-13T04:17:17Z2013-06-19T14:20:20Zuuid:9ebbaa7b-a076-4830-8a73-13957cc7e57d;id=14

Paris (dpa) - Three suspected cases of the SARS-like coronavirus have been discovered in northern France, health authorities said Friday after confirming the country's first case of the deadly respiratory infection this week. The three cases were believed to be linked to that of a 65-year-old man, who was hospitalized last month after a visit to Dubai and Saudi Arabia. The health ministry confirmed...

2013-05-10T15:28:00Z2013-06-19T14:20:20Zuuid:9ebbaa7b-a076-4830-8a73-13957cc7e57d;id=15

Paris (dpa) - France has recorded its first case of coronavirus, a deadly respiratory infection related to SARS, the French health ministry said Wednesday. The patient returned to France from a visit to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and was placed in intensive care in an isolation ward, the ministry said. The human coronavirus, or hCoV, was first discovered in 2012 in a man in Saudi Arabia....

2013-05-08T18:40:00Z2013-06-19T14:20:20Zuuid:9ebbaa7b-a076-4830-8a73-13957cc7e57d;id=16

A leading health organisation claims that there are "alarming variations" in the number of people with asthma admitted to hospital in an emergency depending on where they live. For instance, figures for 2010-11 in England show the admission rate for children in Liverpool was 19 times higher than in the London area of Tower Hamlets. Bosses at Asthma UK allege that good care and management of the condition...

2013-05-08T04:17:14Z2013-06-19T14:20:20Zuuid:9ebbaa7b-a076-4830-8a73-13957cc7e57d;id=17

Riyadh (dpa) - Five people have died from a SARS-like illness in Saudi Arabia, local media reported Thursday, quoting the country's Health Ministry. All of the deaths occurred in the eastern province of al-Ahsa. Jeddah-based newspaper Okaz said that two other people had been infected in the latest outbreak of the new form of coronavirus, which causes acute respiratory illness, and were in intensive...

2013-05-02T18:16:00Z2013-06-19T14:20:20Zuuid:9ebbaa7b-a076-4830-8a73-13957cc7e57d;id=18

Phnom Penh (dpa) - The World Health Organization on Thursday announced a 400-million-dollar program to combat a resistant strain of malaria that has emerged in Southeast Asia in recent years. The program, which has already received around one-third of the funding it requires, will seek to prevent the spread of a falciparum parasite that has become resistant to artemisinin-based combination therapy...

2013-04-25T17:31:00Z2013-06-19T14:20:20Zuuid:9ebbaa7b-a076-4830-8a73-13957cc7e57d;id=19

Taipei (dpa) - The first case of a deadly strain of bird flu recently discovered in humans has been found in Taiwan, the island's Department of Health said Wednesday. It is the first infection to be discovered outside mainland China. The patient who tested positive for the H7N9 strain of avian influenza was a 53-year-old man who went on a two-week business trip to China's eastern coastal province of...

2013-04-24T17:59:00Z2013-06-19T14:20:20Zuuid:9ebbaa7b-a076-4830-8a73-13957cc7e57d;id=20

Beijing (dpa) - The World Health Organization said Wednesday they needed more evidence to determine if human transmission of a new strain of bird flu had occurred in China. "The evidence so far is not enough to conclude that there is person-to-person transmission," said Keiji Fukuda, WHO assistant director general for health security. But future proof of human transmission "would not be surprising,"...

2013-04-24T12:43:00Z2013-06-19T14:20:20Zuuid:9ebbaa7b-a076-4830-8a73-13957cc7e57d;id=21

Beijing (dpa) - World Health Organization experts have arrived in China to study the spread of H7N9 avian influenza and possible human transmission of the virus, a WHO official said on Friday. Chinese and international experts suspected human transmission of H7N9 "in very rare caes," Michael O'Leary, WHO's China representative, told reporters. The WHO team would spend a week in China, travelling to...

2013-04-19T13:53:00Z2013-06-19T14:20:20Zuuid:9ebbaa7b-a076-4830-8a73-13957cc7e57d;id=22

Beijing (dpa) - An eerie silence descended on the streets of China's capital on April 21, 2003 as many of the city's 15 million residents shut themselves indoors to avoid a deadly new virus. The previous day, the government admitted what a growing number of people had suspected: Severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, was spreading via human contact and had already killed dozens of people in Beijing....

2013-04-19T09:05:00Z2013-06-19T14:20:20Zuuid:9ebbaa7b-a076-4830-8a73-13957cc7e57d;id=23

A bird flu that has never before been a problem for humans has infected more than 80 people in China, killing 17 of them, and is raising concerns among infectious disease experts worldwide. The first human case was identified three weeks ago, and the rapid compilation of human cases since then has public health officials in China and scientists from around the world scrambling to identify the source...

2013-04-19T04:00:00Z2013-06-19T14:20:20Zuuid:9ebbaa7b-a076-4830-8a73-13957cc7e57d;id=24

The connection between heart disease and red meat consumption has long been established. Saturated fat and cholesterol have taken the blame for the clogged arteries found in those who regularly include red meat in their diets. A research team at the Cleveland Clinic has identified another way red meat may contribute to heart disease. According to their study published April 2013, the compound carnitine,...

2013-04-18T19:42:28Z2013-06-19T14:20:20Zuuid:9ebbaa7b-a076-4830-8a73-13957cc7e57d;id=25

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at State & Local Health Law Weekly - More than 1 in 5 seniors with Medicare Advantage plans received a prescription for a potentially harmful "high risk medication" in 2009, according to a newly published analysis by Brown University public health researchers. The questionable prescriptions were significantly more common in the Southeast region of the country, as...

2013-04-18T17:26:22Z2013-06-19T14:20:20Zuuid:9ebbaa7b-a076-4830-8a73-13957cc7e57d;id=26

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 25.8 million adults and children, or roughly 8.3 percent of the population have diabetes. Up to 24 million people suffer from Type 2 diabetes. Despite taking various oral medications, some patients having Type 2 diabetes continue having elevated blood sugars. Increasing physical activity or altering dietary intake may help. If these measures...

2013-04-17T23:52:12Z2013-06-19T14:20:20Z