London — The global treaty that would totally ban mercury has alarmed scientists because of its great importance in the preservation of many vaccines for known diseases and infections. Scientists warned officials that negotiating a global treaty should be properly and carefully analyzed before implementing. Officials will meet in Nairobi later this month to discuss […]
Cholera has been considered a major health problem on a global scale, causing both endemic and epidemic disease. Modern cholera vaccines have been found as the safest and most effective preventive measure for the disease replacing the conventional but already obsolete injection-based vaccines for cholera. The World Health Organization has recently released its own statement […]
According to statistics, 90% of American parents allow their children below the age of 2 to watch television and other sources of streaming videos. The influence of media has been seen to have pervaded our developed and modern world to an extent that alarmed the American Academy of Pediatrics to release Tuesday its newest guidelines […]
One of the major public health problems in some parts in South America is the infestation of blood-sucking bugs (Triatoma bugs). Scientists have conducted a study to analyze the distribution and abundance of the bugs depending on location of the infestation. In a survey conducted among 327 inhabited house compounds, 45.9% were infested. Bugs were […]
A new Swedish study has been published Tuesday saying that night shift works are not only exhausting for teenagers but also increases the risk of developing a disease known as multiple sclerosis later on in life. A team of researchers from Karolinska Institute has initiated the study headed by Anna Hedstroem. The analysis revealed that […]
New York — A report said that only close to 50% of American girls ages 13 to 17 had been vaccinated against HPV or Human Pappillomavirus that causes cervical cancer among women. The CDC or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would like to improve the numbers and hope to spread awareness to more women […]
New York — A new study revealed that people with gallstones have heightened risk of developing kidney stone as well and vice versa. The researchers already know from the start that diabetes, unhealthy diet and obesity put people at higher risk of developing both kidney and gallbladder stones. But even though the identified factors were […]
Cardiovascular diseases like myocardial infarction are the leading causes of millions of disability and deaths globally. A person’s health condition is determined by environmental factors and through behavior such as diet, smoking, physical activity, and alcohol consumption. However, genetic variations also play an important role. That is the reason why a recent study has been […]
Each year, 140,000 women around the world die, 14,000 alone are from the United States, due to ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer is lethal because it is only detected once the cancer cells are already spreading across other tissues in the body. Majority of ovarian cancer deaths are caused by a serious histological tumor type, rarely […]
There are growing issues concerning health and forensic DNA databases reflecting and indicating structural disparity and inequality in biomedical study and research. The extent and coverage of genome information can be seen to be uneven by race and class, thus creating digital divide among data gathered for genomic studies. Samples tested for most DNA involved […]
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