Health care

Scientists reported the number of potentially dangerous viruses

Experts believe that at the moment there are more than three hundred thousand unknown viruses in nature, which can later be dangerous for human health and life.

04 September 2013, 10:00

The first case of transmission of the avian influenza virus from person to person was registered

British scientists have informed the world of the first known case of transmission of the avian influenza virus not from animal to human, but from person to person. In the popular scientific journal of Great Britain, an article appeared that in China a thirty-two-year-old woman contracted avian influenza while communicating with a sick father.

12 August 2013, 09:30

Doctors recognized that obesity must be treated

Representatives of the American Medical Association have finally come to the conclusion that such a disease as obesity in any case requires treatment.

21 June 2013, 09:00

Specialists from Vietnam discovered a new deadly virus

Vietnamese scientists managed to find out that some cycloviruses, which previously were considered harmless to human health, can cause diseases with a fatal outcome.

20 June 2013, 09:00

Patients in hospitals most often die on weekends

For two years, from 2005 to 2006, about 3500 patients died in hospitals in England, which were clinically curative.

31 May 2013, 15:23

The world is threatened with a new coronavirus strain, similar to the virus that causes SARS

Analysts of the World Health Organization (WHO) are sounding the alarm: a new type of dangerous coronavirus is beginning to spread across the south-western Asian and European countries.

16 May 2013, 09:00

German beer can be dangerous to health

Scientists have found that German beer contains arsenic. And the concentration of this poison in light beer exceeds the norm by 2 times.

16 April 2013, 09:45

More than 95% of doctors prescribe placebo in place of medicine

People are used to blindly trusting their doctors and sometimes even do not pay attention to what medications they are recommended for treatment.

27 March 2013, 09:03

In 15 years, every second person can develop cancer

In fifteen years, the chances of developing cancer will rise to 50 cases out of 100. The data show that the probability of getting affected by cancer will increase to 50%, which may be related to life expectancy.

04 February 2013, 09:12

Antibiotics pose a serious danger to humanity

British scientists warn: humanity is threatened by a catastrophe, which by its significance can be compared with global warming. The problem of modern medicine is that the widespread use of antibiotics promotes the development of immunity in bacteria that cause disease.

28 January 2013, 09:12

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