APEC economies have agreed to a new plan for improving food safety at the APEC Food Safety Cooperation Forum in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales. This is the first time food safety regulators have been involved in APEC.
Health plan members who receive preventive health examinations, as opposed to going to a physician only when they are sick, appear more likely to undergo testing for colorectal, breast and prostate cancers, according to a report in the March 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
People who are Deaf or hearing-impaired now have better access to health care services thanks to the efforts of the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, Disability Discrimination Commissioner Graeme Innes said today.
Eli Lilly and Company announced plans to invest an additional $50 million in an innovative, global partnership to fight Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB). The announcement is being made in conjunction with World TB Day activities.
Patients living in deprived areas should soon find it easier to get a doctor’s appointment following the launch of UK Government drive to find extra GPs and nurses for those towns and cities with the fewest family doctors.
Many young and middle-aged people of Chinese ancestry told they are at risk of going blind from glaucoma may be getting incorrect information, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
The Alzheimer’s Association reports that in 2007 there are now more than 5 million people in the United States living with Alzheimer’s disease. Someone develops Alzheimer?s every 72 seconds, according to new Alzheimer?s Association report.
World diabetes leaders left the Global Changing Diabetes Leadership Forum, which took place in New York City on 13?14 March 2007, with a sense of activism to return home to start changing diabetes.
The health risks posed by mercury contaminated fish is sufficient to warrant issuing a worldwide general warning to the public ? especially children and women of childbearing age – to be careful about how much and which fish they eat.
The Indian Government is setting up a National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship & Management at Kundli in Haryana.