Next week, the UN General Assembly will hold its first-ever summit on chronic diseases: cancer, diabetes, heart and lung disease. They account for almost two-thirds of deaths (about 36 million).
Authorities in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore have put all health facilities on high alert amid the threat of a dengue fever epidemic, the BBC reports.
The CimaVax-EGF vaccine was developed by specialists at the Center for Molecular Immunology in Havana over a period of 25 years. This drug is an analogue of the epidermal growth factor (EGF), which is necessary for the growth and spread of cancer cells.
Four children in the United States have been infected with a previously unknown strain of the H3N2 flu virus, MSNBC reports, citing Tom Skinner, a representative of the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The mutated strain of the bird flu virus (H5N1) does not pose an increased risk to human health, AFP reports, citing the World Health Organization (WHO).
The decision to accept a child without a certain set of vaccinations into an educational institution is made in each individual case by the head of the educational institution.
UK healthcare spending on homeopathy has fallen seven and a half times in 15 years. In 2010, NHS staff wrote out more than 16,000 prescriptions for homeopathic remedies.
This September, the first phase of the Stratified Medicine Programme, organised by the charity Cancer Research UK with support from the British government, AstraZeneca and Pfizer, will begin in the United Kingdom.
The more you treat yourself, the more you get sick: this is the conclusion reached by American doctors who found that some tests and treatments do more harm than good
