This is the worst flu season in several years, according to early figures from state and federal health agencies. At least some of the increase stems from the vaccine mismatch, which came about because of a viral shift that experts did not anticipate. [...]
U.S. Rep. John Dingell of Michigan, who heads the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, called for an investigation Thursday. It joins an earlier congressional inquiry into why the report’s author was demoted after raising health questions in this study and others that were politically unpopular.
“If the conclusions of this study are [...]
By Mirta Roses-Periago, Director Pan American Health Organization When envisioning the future of public health in the Americas, we can and should dare to dream of victories that greatly benefit all citizens and have a real impact on the human development levels of our peoples.
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In a report based on data from 81 countries, the WHO estimated nearly half a million people a year worldwide become infected with a form of TB resistant to two or more of the primary drugs used to treat it. That number accounts for about 5 per cent of the 9 million new TB cases [...]
HAVANA, Cuba (ACN): %26quot;We are willing to extend the benefits of the ‘Operacion Milagro’ eye-surgery programme to Barbados,%26quot; said Cuban Deputy Minister for Foreign Investment and Economic Collaboration Orlando Requejo on Thursday, at the opening session of the 5th Joint Intergovernmental Commission Cuba-Barbados. In his opening speech, Requejo explained the benefits of this programme, which [...]
By Beata Lockwood Caribbean Net News Dominican Republic Correspondent Email: beata@caribbeannetnews.com
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: The World Health Organization is sending experts to the Dominican Republic to advise and assist the country%26rsquo;s Public Health Ministry in dealing with the growing number of leptospitosis cases as a result of the recent Tropical Storm Noel and the [...]
At the local level, jail wardens concede they are not trained or equipped to handle the inmates’ medical issues, which often are intertwined with lengthy histories of drug abuse, petty theft and dysfunction. Police officers wind up taking people to jail for repeated offenses such as disturbing [...]
WASHINGTON — President Bush wants to cut funding for teaching hospitals and freeze medical research in a $3 trillion budget for 2009 that is still likely to generate a record deficit once war costs are tallied up.
The Bush budget to be submitted Monday would cut the budget for the Health and Human Services Department by [...]
HANOI, Vietnam Fears of a global bird flu pandemic that once dominated headlines have largely vanished in the West, but four years after the virus began ravaging Asian poultry, it continues to quietly spread.
Most global health officials continue to warn that the virus could [...]
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 [...]
