Cigarettes cost the average Australian smoker about $A300,000 ($NZ365,365) in their lifetime, a new calculation shows.
A South Australian infectious disease physician, Dr Ross Philpot, has run new statistics on the physical and financial cost of smoking.
By 65, the average 20-a-day smoker will have puffed on 400,000 cigarettes, and by the time they die 500,000 will [...]
Previous studies of zinc treatment for common cold symptoms have yielded conflicting results, the authors explain.
Dr Ananda S Prasad from Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, and associates investigated the effects of zinc acetate lozenges in treating the common cold in 50 volunteers who had cold symptoms for 24 hours or less. The participants [...]
In little more than five years, Seattle has become an international center for malaria vaccine research and, apparently, will have no trouble finding volunteers willing to get bit by malaria-infected mosquitoes bred in a lab on Westlake Avenue.
“I’ve had to stop answering my phone,” said Dr. Patrick Duffy, chief of the malaria program at the [...]
When it comes to producing healthy babies, the onus is usually placed on moms-to-be. Women hoping to get pregnant are urged to consume a nutritious diet - especially one rich in the B vitamin folate, which has been shown to reduce the risks of certain birth defects. But a new and [...]
Health officials are screening the close contacts of a man who has become
Britains first case of a virtually untreatable form of drug-resistant
tuberculosis.
The man, believed to be a Somali asylum-seeker in his thirties, has a rare
strain, Extremely Drug Resistant TB (XDR-TB), which has a high mortality
rate.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that XDR-TB accounts for possibly
only [...]
Feb. 29 (Bloomberg) — Chikungunya, the tropical disease
that spread to Europe from Asia last year, may have turned
deadly, according to scientists who studied an outbreak that
infected about 1.4 million people in India.
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA): Guyana%26rsquo;s aggressive response to HIV/AIDS has seen the epidemic stabilising over the past three years as it pursues the goal of having no child born with HIV. Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy made this assertion while speaking at the presentation of the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) Workshop held [...]
Nationwide, 4.6 percent of flu samples tested have shown signs of drug resistance this season, said officials with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In previous years, resistance to the drug hovered below 1 percent of all cases. “We have seen [...]
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has been raging along the Wasatch Front. But there are signs the common respiratory illness, which can be dangerous for very young children, may have peaked for the season.
RSV cases confirmed by the Intermountain Healthcare Central Lab reached 230 a week [...]
The latest is a strain of bacteria known as USA300. The codename makes it sound like a patriotic sporting event, but to judge by recent media coverage USA300 is a harbinger of apocalypse. ‘Flesh-eating bug strikes San Francisco’s gay community,’ screamed a recent headline in the Independent. ‘SF gay community an epicenter for new strain [...]
