ASIA: Asbestos - deadly but not yet banned
Asbestos helps fuel Asia's construction industry
More intensified push needed to end global epidemic of tuberculosis – Ban
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon marked this year's World Tuberculosis Day with a call for a greater push to eliminate once and for all the second top infectious killer of adults after HIV/AIDS.
Friendly-to-a-fault, yet tense: personality traits traced in brain
The severity of abnormalities in insula (red structure near bottom of brain) gray matter volume (...
Antibiotics ineffective against viral sinus infections
As antibiotics are ineffective against a vast majority of sinus infections caused by viruses, they should not be used in their treatment, new guidelines released by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) suggest.
Possible causes of sudden onset OCD in kids broadened
Criteria for a broadened syndrome of acute onset obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) have been proposed by a National Institutes of Health scientist and her colleagues. The syndrome, Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS), includes...
UN-backed effort aims to vaccinate 111 million children against polio in four days
Oral polio vaccine being administered.
South Africa Maps Strategy for TB Fight
A global strategy to develop safe and effective tuberculosis vaccines over the coming decade was unveiled in South Africa this week.
Study provides clues for designing new anti-addiction medications
Scientists are now one step closer to developing anti-addiction medications, thanks to new research that provides a better understanding of the properties of the only member of the opioid receptor family whose activation counteracts the rewarding...
New TB Drug Regimen Launched in Africa, South America
A global alliance of public and private health experts is marking this year's World TB Day March 24 by launching human clinical trials of a new anti-tuberculosis drug regimen in South Africa, Tanzania, and Brazil.
Bangladesh: UN agency launches nutrition support campaign for children, women
Child's arm beeing mesured to asses his nutritional state, in a feeding centre of Dahakula village, in Kushtia,...
