I congratulate Dr. Margaret Chan on her nomination as the next Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). The United States Government looks forward to working with Dr. Chan, and to continuing our close collaboration with the WHO Secretariat on a range of pressing public-health and scientific issues.
Accusing Multinational tobacco companies of dumping their products in India and trying to “entice” youngsters to take up smoking, Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss today said the government would continue to fight the companies tooth and nail.
Even as the mosquito season draws to a close, Public Health ? Seattle & King County continues to find birds infected with West Nile virus. A dead crow found near downtown Kent on October 26th and tested at the Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory last week was determined to be positive for West Nile virus. This is the sixth positive bird finding in King County since early October, and is an indication that the virus is likely spread throughout the region.
The family of a 17-year-old boy who died at the Royal Free of leukaemia has set up a trust fund in his memory. Edward Griffith, better known as Edd, died at the end of the summer following a two year battle against the disease.
Even as a more stringent law against sexual harassment of working women is in the pipeline, a study here has exposed rampant increase in such cases in the health sector.
Deadly dengue claimed two more lives in the national capital pushing the countrywide death count to 175 as 35 fresh cases poured in taking the number of those afflicted with the mosquito-borne disease to 9,680.
The Tamil Nadu government’s health department had declared Chikungunya as a ‘notifiable disease’ under the public health Act, 1939.
University of Illinois at Chicago researchers are comparing two drugs commonly used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder to determine if genetic factors predict which children will respond to either or both drugs.
Hodgkin?s lymphoma survivors who have lipid screening every five years to detect high cholesterol will live a half year longer than patients who don?t have the screening and the intervention is cost-effective, according to a study presented November 8, 2006, at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology?s 48th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
The Academy for Eating Disorders (AED) has drafted the Worldwide Charter for Action on Eating Disorders, an international bill of rights for people with eating disorders and their families, that seeks an end to discrimination against people with eating disorders by insurance and treatment providers.