The US government is launching a new large-scale campaign to combat smoking, using photographs of people who have serious health problems due to this addiction.
The world is on the verge of a crisis caused by the resistance of microbes to antibiotics, Margaret Chan, head of the World Health Organization, said at a conference in Copenhagen on Friday.
Almost 1 300 000 citizens of the European Union states will die from various cancers in 2012. Nevertheless, the death rate from oncology in Europe will continue to decline.
An international team of researchers concluded that misuse of condoms is extremely common in all regions of the world and is a serious public health problem.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted in the first reading the draft Law "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine" concerning restrictions in the use of assisted reproductive technologies.
In connection with warming, experts expect an increase in the incidence of influenza and ARVI next week almost doubled, and only in April, predict a decline
The first working meeting to discuss the risks and benefits of laboratory studies related to the avian influenza virus, as well as the possibility of public publication of the details of the experiments, will be held in Geneva on 16-17 February
The 10-year efforts of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to increase the number of children who have been vaccinated against measles have produced results.
Sugar should be controlled, as well as alcohol or tobacco, says a team of UCSF researchers who note in their report that sugar is the cause of the global pandemic of obesity ...
