The California Medical Association has called for marijuana to be legalized. The California Medical Association, which represents about 35,000 doctors, is the first organization in the United States to make such a proposal.
The overwhelming majority of officials, due to the high level of counterfeit medicines in Ukraine, buy medical drugs in EU countries. This was stated by the People's Deputy of Ukraine Valeriy Konovalyuk.
The incidence of measles in Russia has increased more than one and a half times in a year. This is stated in the decree of the Chief Sanitary Doctor of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko.
According to a UNICEF representative, there have been about 85,000 cases of cholera in Africa this year, 2,500 of which have been fatal. Such a death rate is unacceptably high.
An estimated 40 million smokers could die from tuberculosis by 2050. The British Medical Journal predicts that people who are addicted to nicotine are twice as likely to develop tuberculosis as those who do not smoke.
An increase in the incidence of drug-resistant tuberculosis has been recorded in European countries, Zsuzsanna Jakab, director of the regional bureau of the World Health Organization (WHO), said, AFP reports.
An epidemic of dengue fever has begun in Pakistan. According to the BBC, the dangerous infection is spreading among residents of the Punjab province in the east of the country, where at least eight fatal cases of the disease have been recorded.
