The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) in HHS’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced the availability of two new learning tools to help consumers use the Nutrition Facts label to choose nutritious foods and achieve healthy weight management.
One in four U.S. adults say they suffered a day-long bout of pain in the past month, and one in 10 say the pain lasted a year or more, according to the government’s annual, comprehensive report of Americans’ health, Health United States, 2006, released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics.
Warning that under-nourishment, environmental damage, conflicts and terrorism posed serious challenge to children’s health, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said it was important to “respect and uphold” the right to health of children.
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today unveiled a range of new cardiovascular solutions that supply cardiologists with insightful clinical knowledge for more confident diagnoses at the 2006 American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions meeting. At AHA, Philips revealed the industry?s smallest transducer for 4D cardiac ultrasound imaging in infants and children to help cardiologists accurately view a patient?s cardiac structure and blood flow by improving access to the heart.
A new study on the health care costs of illegal immigration found that only a fraction of the expenses are paid for by public funds. The numbers translate to $11 per American household, but critics are calling the report a gross underestimate.
There is no evidence antibiotics help the vast majority of patients with acute bronchitis, and doctors should stop routinely prescribing them, researchers reported on Wednesday.
The Government of Japan has contributed US$1.604 million to UNICEF to support life-saving child immunization coverage and provide almost 150,000 insecticide treated bed nets to protect infants and pregnant women from malaria. The grant will also be used to provide 780,000 doses of Artesunate and Amodiaquine (ACT) to care for children who contract malaria, Africa?s leading cause of under-five mortality.
UNICEF today called on governments and others committed to universal education and gender equality to remember that the earliest years are the most critical for children?s development. If many of the Millennium Development Goals are to be reached, the children?s agency warned, the cycle of negative gender stereotypes must be broken earlier in a child’s life rather than later.
Sickness due to infections affects some 1.4 million people worldwide despite one of the most powerful approaches to fighting the scourge also being the simplest that is cleaning hands every time a doctor or nurse sees a patient.
Although children born to mothers who smoked during pregnancy are known to be at increased risk of developing asthma, ?few studies have investigated the role of active cigarette smoking on asthma onset during adolescence?, the researchers explain in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.