As the provincial government prepares for the final sessions of its ?Conversation on Health? this weekend in Vancouver, participants from 14 of the public forums held across the province during the past six months joined with the BC Health Coalition to deliver a clear message.
With a view to prevent any epidemic in flood-hit regions of Maharashtra, the state Directorate of Health Services has stepped up efforts to prevent spread of water borne diseases.
The United Nations Children’s Fund has welcomed Egypt’s decision to stamp out the traditional but gruesome practice of female genital mutilation after a 12-year-old girl died following the procedure.
As part of the ongoing effort to strengthen smaller, rural family resource programs, the Province is providing a $1-million one-time grant to the BC Association of Family Resource Programs (FRP-BC).
As a joint effort of the department of pharmaceutical and healthcare business and the department of health policy and public health of University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, 12 graduate students will be visiting Japan from July 1?11.
Commenting on the attempted car bombings in London and Glasgow, Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of BMA Council, said: “Like others we were shocked to hear of the recent attempted bombings. The news that members of a caring profession may be involved in these atrocities was even more appalling.
Antidepressants lower the risk of suicide attempt in adults with depression, according to a study published in the July issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry. The researchers also found that the lower risk held true for young adults ages 18 to 25.
The European Society for Medical Oncology is proud to announce that it is collaborating closely with the Portuguese EU Presidency on a key European meeting on health care issues, where cancer will be an important part of the agenda.
People with diabetes are risking their health by not discussing their use of complementary and alternative therapies with the health professionals managing their conventional treatment.
Exposing a developing female sheep fetus to low doses of chemicals commonly present in the environment can disturb the development of the ovary, a scientist told the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology today (Wednesday, July 4). Dr. Paul Fowler, of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, said that this research would help to establish the importance of the effect of environmental chemicals for fertility.