- World Health Day 2004:Road Safety is No Accident
The World Health Day (WHD) is celebrated each year, usually on April 7, by the World Health Organization (WHO) to commemorate the anniversary of its founding in 1946. More...

- World Health Day: Road safety is no accident!
This year World Health Day is marked as Road Safety Day to curb senseless human toll every year by road accidents.Road crashes are the second leading cause of death globally among young people aged five to 29 and the third leading cause of death among people aged 30 to 44 years. More...

- Bird flu prototype virus produced in lab, WHO says
A high-security laboratory has grown a prototype H5N1 bird flu virus, the first step toward making a human vaccine against the potentially deadly new pathogen, a World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman said on Thursday. More...

- Road safety: a public health issue
At the inquest into the world’s first road traffic death in 1896, the coroner was reported to have said “this must never happen again”. More...

- When farmers get AIDS, everyone starves
Philele Ndlangamandla has 504 patients on her roster. A visiting nurse with a program called Hospice at Home, she spends her days driving dusty rural roads from one small house to another. More...

- WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control now signed by 100 countries
This week, with the signatures of Ecuador and The Republic of Congo, a total of 100 countries and the European Community have so far signed the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)."With their signatures, More...

- Aid agency says world losing tuberculosis war
The world is losing the fight against tuberculosis, which kills around two million people a year, because it is using outdated drugs and diagnostic tests, a leading aid agency warned on Tuesday. More...

- World TB Day
Health, finance ministers meet in New Dehli on challenge of treating an additional one million patients a year on eve of world TB day
The number of tuberculosis patients diagnosed and treated under DOTS*, More...

- Your sense of smell can save your life
People who have an impaired sense of smell appear to be at higher risk of preventable accidents, new research reports.
Investigators found that more than one third of people with a diminished sense of smell report having experienced at least one accident that could have prevented, such as burning pots and pans, eating spoiled food, and gas leaks. More...

- UN warns of dangers of drugs sold on internet
The illegal sale over the internet of drugs and medicines without a valid prescription is posing an increasing risk to people’s health, the UN drugs watchdog has warned. More...

- No Smoking Day - smokers sick of it and wanting to quit
Most smokers are sick of smoking and want out according to a new report based on a survey commissioned by ASH and the No Smoking Day charity [1]. 83% of smokers say they would not smoke if they had their time again and list five main reasons – health, money, addiction, “disgust” and social stigma. More...

- One pill for smoking and obesity
Scientists are developing a pill that helps people quit smoking and slim down at the same time. The drug, rimonabant, works by blocking the circuits in the brain that control the urge to eat and smoke. More...

- Global fund to fight AIDS faces crunch
The global AIDS fund could soon face a cash crisis, due in part to the likes of Britain, Germany and Canada failing to contribute their fair share to the U.N.-sponsored programme, its chief says. More...

- WHO releases new report on global problem of oral diseases
Oral diseases such as dental caries (tooth decay), periodontitis (gum disease) and oral and pharyngeal cancers are a global health problem in both industrialized and increasingly in developing countries, especially amongst poorer communities, More...

- Prognosis for teenagers and young people with cancer fails to improve
More teenagers and young people are getting cancer than ever before, said specialists and campaigners this week. But they are no more likely to survive their illness than they were 25 years ago because teenage cancer has been largely ignored by researchers, health service planners, and the government. More...

- How to tackle Malnourishment:Examples can be taken from Nepals’s “Food Clinics”
One of the biggest challenges for developing world is how to tackle starvation and malnourishment because one in twelve people worldwide is malnourished,160,000 million under the age of 5 are malnourished and everyday 34,000 children die of hunger or hunger related illness and preventable diseases. More...

- World Bank conference debates how to deliver Health Services to the poor
Health services designed to favour the poor do not necessarily reach the most needy in societies. More...

- Rare Disease Endemic In South America Is Model For Studying Autoimmunity
A group of men living amid the gold mines and disappearing jungles of northeastern Colombia, is giving a Medical College of Georgia scientist unprecedented access to study how the wrong combination of genetics and environment cause the body to turn on itself More...

- West Africa mobilizes for final assault against polio63 million children to be immunized across 10 countries as Nigerian outbreak threatens African success story
One month after an emergency meeting of Health Ministers committed to end polio transmission in 2004, African countries are responding with a massive More...

- Smoking and future generations:Smoking adversely effects both reproductive and child health
Smoking damages almost all aspects of sexual, reproductive and child health, according to a report. The study, by the British Medical Association, says smoking has caused impotence in 120,000 men aged 30-50. More...

- WHO investigates possible human to human transmission of avian flu
The World Health Organization expressed concern this week that the first case of human to human transmission of H5N1 avian influenza may have occurred. Officials are investigating the case of two sisters in Vietnam who died of the disease and who may have contracted it from their brother. More...

- New neurological disease discovered
Researchers in Chicago's Rush University Medical Center have discovered a major new disease that affects men over 50.
The disease, fragile X associated tremor/ataxia syndrome, also known as FXTAS, typically begins as tremors with balance problems and frequent falls, short-term memory loss, impotence, moodiness, anxiety and loss of sensation in the feet. More...

- T.B and AIDS:WHO to expand collaboration in curbing the pandemic of T.B/HIV coinfection
The two epidemics represent a massive challenge to public health. Forty million people are currently infected with HIV, and 5 million more are infected every year. According to WHO, one third of the world's population is now infected with the TB bacillus, with more than 8 million people developing the active disease and 2 million dying of it each year.In Africa, up to half of all people with HIV/AIDS develop TB, and up to 80% of tuberculosis patients are HIV infected. More...

- Polio eradication by end of 2004
“We Will Finish Polio Before Year’s End,” say Ministers of Health 15 January 2004 -- Polio should be relegated to the history books within the next twelve months, Ministers of Health and representatives from the six remaining polio-endemic countries declared today at a high-level meeting in Geneva. More...

- Health and Poverty:Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), adopted at the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in September 2000, call for a dramatic reduction in poverty and marked improvements in the health of the poor. More...

- Something for young doctors and medical students
Everywhere lots of advice can be found for the general well being and to lead a healthy life.But what about doctors or medical students,who play a very vital role in the health and fitness of others.Their knowledge,attitude and approach can save or lose a life,so here are some pearls of wisdom for them,taken from a recent article in The British Medical Journal. More...

- Look and Feel Younger by Avoiding the Top Contributors to Aging
Hardly anyone likes aging and even worse is premature aging.So here are several contributors to premature aging that you should be aware of. Cigarettes Whether you smoke yourself or are around people who do More...

- What lessons are learnt from 2003 regarding health care:Looking back towards 2003,
the overall message of this year's World Health Report, "Shaping the future," from the World Health Organization is clear. Strengthen health systems, More...

- Chicken soup best remedy for the common cold, say researchers
A cure for the common cold may still be out of reach, but temporary relief could be right in your kitchen cupboard. According to a report in HealthDayNews, chicken soup apparently does more wonders to the cold than commonly attributed. Some doctors and researchers, not to mention grandma, say chicken soup actually helps reduce the inflammation and mucus production so characteristic of a cold. They think it may help flu sufferers, too. More...

- Study: Smokers May Be More Prone To Respiratory Infections
Men who smoke may have a less sensitive cough reflex than their nonsmoking counterparts, according to study published in the March issue of Chest, the journal of the American College of Chest Physicians. More...

- END OF ANOTHER YEAR AND HEALTHCARE AROUND THE WORLD:
With another new year approaching the question that all of us should be asking ourselves,apart from what goals we did achieve for ourselves,is that did we do anything or rather even think about those people who are living on less than $1 a day and their chief problem,healthcare or rather access to it. More...

- “3 by 5”,program for AIDS by UN
Some jobs are so important you just have to take them out of the hands of the experts.That idea, or something like it, lies at the base of the immensely ambitious program the World Health Organization unveiled [recently] to put 3 million people infected with the AIDS virus on long-term treatment by the end of 2005. More...

- Keeping yourself mentally fit helps you enjoy ageing:
There is a Japanese proverb that says,”We begin aging when we stop learning”.
"The mind plays an integral role in our health," says Paul Takahashi, M.D., a specialist in geriatrics at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. "It's important to wake up every morning and look forward to the day — and an essential part of that means continuing to learn and keeping an active mind. More...

- How eating less can help you live longer
We all have heard that eating less keeps you healthy and helps to live longer.So no doubt eating less fatty food keeps at bay heart diseases and other ailments but eating less all sorts of food even those considered healthy can also make you live longer according to new research.Here are the very basic facts of how eating less makes you live longer. More...

- Simple suggestions for avoiding Flu and Common Cold
Winters are here and so are the inevitable flu and cold.Altough once you get them they run their course but few simple tips can be taken to avoid them,so try them and see how much they help More...

- Women and Heart Attack
There is a general belief that women as compared to men don’t suffer from heart disease that often,although that is true espically before menopause but after that the risk of heart disease steadily rises for women and after 70s its almost same as men. More...

- Sleep Problems in Elderly
Almost everyone experience sleep problems sometime in our life espically as we age.Inability or difficulty in sleeping is termed as insomnia. More...

- Allergies: How to live and manage them.
Allergies are an overreaction of the immune system. People who have allergies have a hyper-alert immune system that overreacts to a substance in the environment called an allergen. Exposure to what is normally a harmless substance, such as pollen, causes the immune system to react as if the substance is harmful. More...

- Reducing The Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
We all have heard of cardiovascular diseases and their implications mainly,Heart Attack & Stroke. More...

- STRESS: A very simple everyday guidelines to manage and avoid it.
Whats the thing that we most use but neglect it the most everyday as well?Our very own bodies! More...

- Got Asthma? Quit Smoking
If you have asthma and you're a smoker, quitting is the most important step you can take to protect your lungs. More...

- Bionic arm controlled by Brain
A man who lost both of his arms in an accident is getting some high-tech help with an innovative artificial limb that controls movements by thought. More...

- Sea helps in fighting cancer
The sea has provided what could be an important chemotherapy drug for patients with hard-to-treat cancers. More...

- Scientists celeberate IVF birthday
Scientists are meeting in London - the twenty-fifth birthday of Louise Brown, the world's first 'test-tube' baby - to discuss how far in vitro fertilization (IVF) has come and how far it has to go. Many technical and ethical hurdles remain, they say. More...

- Oseltamivir Reduces Complications of Influenza A, B
Oseltamivir reduces complications of both influenza A and B to the same extent, according to the results of a prospective trial published in the July 28 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. More...

- Can Selective Blockade of Aldosterone Replace Spironolactone?
Aldosterone is an endogenous circulating regulatory hormone produced in the adrenal gland that has long been viewed as maintaining salt and water homeostasis. More...

- ACTIVE TUBERCULOSIS : QUICK DIAGNOSIS , A REVULUTIONISED APPORACH
Active tuberculosis can be rapidly diagnosed by detecting TB-specific antibodies in lymphocyte secretions (ALS) obtained from cultured peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), researchers report in the August 1st issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases. More...

- Tooth Loss Associated With Subclinical Atherosclerosis
Tooth loss has been linked to overt cardiovascular disease, but now, new study findings indicate that it is also a marker for subclinical atherosclerosis. More...

- Asian Travel Alert
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued emergency guidance for travellers and airlines as a global outbreak of atypical pneumonia continues to spread. The WHO is currently coordinating a global response to reported outbreaks of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) - an atypical pneumonia for the cause of which is yet to be determined. More...