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Health :: 10 million people a year are affected by zoonotic viruses spread by non-human hosts

An estimated 50 million people were affected by zoonotics diseases, including H5N1 (bird flu), SARS and Rabies, between 2000 and 2005 and up to 78,000 died. No effective vaccines exist for the most common diseases. And the Dengue virus, which caused about a third of the deaths is experiencing a global resurgence. Zoonotic diseases can become serious killers if they adapt to human to human transmission — HIV and Measles are two examples.

Diabetes :: Losing weight and reducing risk of diabetes – Diet and exercise work equally well

Which works best in fighting the risk factors for diabetes ?exercise or diet? Exercise and diet work equally well in reducing the risk factors for diabetes, a new study finds.

Health :: Mayo Clinic to Host Spiritual Care Research Conference

Mayo Clinic is to host Spiritual Care Research Conference – Life Near the End of Life: Spiritual Research and Evidence-Based Support Interventions.

Health :: Myiasis case confirmed

The Centre for Health Protection has confirmed a myiasis case involving a 97-year-old Kwai Chung woman, bringing the year’s total to 10, all local cases.

Health :: IT can boost disease-data exchanges

The Mainland, Hong Kong and Macau should make more use of information technology to speed up the exchange of data regarding pandemics, says Secretary for Health, Welfare & Food Dr York Chow.

Health :: Plastic bag fee details ready next year

Details of the proposed plastic bag fee are being finalised and a report will be released in the first quarter next year, Secretary for the Environment, Transport & Works Dr Sarah Liao says.

Health :: Ask About Medicines Week 6-10 November 2006

Ask About Medicines Week (November 6-10) is designed to raise awareness of the importance of taking medicines as prescribed and knowing where to get the information you might want. Pharmacists are ideally placed to advise ? they are right on the high street and you don’t need an appointment.

Health :: It’s Three in a Row for Neath Port Talbot Hospital

Neath Port Talbot Hospital?s excellent record of providing quality care for the people and communities it serves has been recognised by the awarding of its third successive Charter Mark.

HIV :: Gene Therapy Shows Promise Against HIV

Gene-base therapy may be effective against HIV, U.S. researchers report. An investigational gene-based immunotherapy called VRX496 suggests it can fight the virus, according to a phase I, open-label, non-randomized clinical trial conducted at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Diabetes :: Enzyme may hold key to new treatment of diabetic kidney disease

Northwestern University researchers have found an enzyme, called “ACE2,” may hold the potential to treat diabetic kidney disease, the most common form of kidney disease.The researchers have found low levels of the ACE2 enzyme in kidneys of diabetic mice. When ACE2 was further decreased with an inhibitor drug, kidney disease worsened. Studies are now needed using compounds that increase the level of ACE2 in the kidneys of diabetic mice to see if it reverses or prevents kidney disease.