Tag: world-health
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Better mental health treatment would boost nations’ economies: WHO
By Alex Whiting LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Every dollar spent on better treatment of anxiety and depression produces a return of $4 in better health and ability to work – a big boost for countries' development and economic growth, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. Common mental disorders such as anxiety and depression…
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Vegetable fat not the route to a healthy heart, study finds
Replacing animal fat in the human diet with vegetable oil seems not to lower heart disease risk, and might even boost it, according to a study published Wednesday that challenges a cornerstone of dietary advice. Switching from saturated to unsaturated Omega-6 fats did result in lower blood cholesterol in a trial with nearly 10,000 participants,…
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Drug shortages prompt question: are some medicines too cheap?
By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) – Philip Aubrey buys medicines for British government-funded hospitals across London, capital of the world's fifth-largest economy, but last year he struggled to secure supplies of a basic AIDS drug. Shortages of essential drugs, mostly generic medicines whose patents have long expired, are becoming increasing frequent globally, prompting the World…
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Drug resistance adds to India’s tuberculosis menace
After three years of battling tuberculosis, a disease that claimed the lives of his father and younger brother, Sonu Verma, a patient in northern India, hopes a cure for his illness may be within reach. “Only a few more months and my nightmare will end… it will be my rebirth, free from tuberculosis,” the 25-year-old…
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Fourth person dies of Ebola in latest flare up in Guinea
A fourth person has died of Ebola in Guinea in the latest flare up of an epidemic that has killed more than 11,300 people in that country, Sierra Leone and Liberia since 2013 but now claims few victims. “The young girl who was hospitalized at the Ebola treatment center in Nzerekore is dead,” said Fode…
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Mothers worldwide leaving hospitals too soon after childbirth
By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) – – Women around the world are leaving hospitals too soon after giving birth, according to a new analysis. The World Health Organization suggests that women stay in the hospital at least 24 hours after a vaginal delivery, but researchers found that depending on the region, up to 83…
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Mothers worldwide leaving hospitals too soon after childbirth
By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) – – Women around the world are leaving hospitals too soon after giving birth, according to a new analysis. The World Health Organization suggests that women stay in the hospital at least 24 hours after a vaginal delivery, but researchers found that depending on the region, up to 83…
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Fetus of Venezuelan woman who likely had Zika dies; had microcephaly: doctors
By Alexandra Ulmer and Corina Pons CARACAS (Reuters) – A fetus whose mother likely had the Zika virus suffered the rare congenital defect known as microcephaly and ultimately died, doctors said on Friday, in the first Venezuelan case linking the infection to damage in babies. The mosquito-borne virus has been linked to thousands of suspected…