The most common causes of fires remained cigarettes and other smoking-related materials, followed by cooking. BBC: Major rise in fire death numbers 19. The Stratford is the largest repertory theater in North America and one of the most successful. NPR: Barenaked Ladies Meet Shakespeare 20. Hess...
On numerous occasions, he has had the opportunity to ask them why international donors have allocated billions of dollars in support of HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases in China, India, and other Asian countries when NCDs pose, by far, a greater public health challenge than HIV/AIDS. ...
The development of resistance to drugs used in the treatment of infectious diseases and cancers is becoming an increasing global health burden. Both therapeutic areas have had large quantities of money and man hours invested into tackling these problems in recent years, attracting attention and researc...
The COVID-19 pandemic retells a story that other diseases like HIV, diabetes, and cancer have clearly internationally illustrated. Minorities in developed countries across the globe - especially those of African, Hispanic, and Native American descent - suffer a greater burden of disease than whites...
Another travel illness you want to avoid is dengue fever, a very unpleasant illness that can even be fatal in severe cases. The most common places to encounter dengue, which spreads through mosquitoes, are tropical countries such as India, Southeast Asia, Southern China and Africa. The vast...
Vulvar dermatoses (VD) are of common occurrence in clinics and comprehend a heterogenous group of inflammatory (contact dermatitis, lichen sclerosus), malignant (vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia and vulvar Paget’s disease) and infectious (candidiasis, herpes simplex and genital wart or condyloma acumina...
Here's a list of the most threatened animal species in the world. It approximates how many of each exist in the wild and also indicates which efforts, if any, are being used to save them.
Number of people killed in 2015: 3,500 Percent of total worldwide deaths from animals: 0.23% Tsetse flieslook like common house flies, but these insects are far deadlier. Like mosquitos, they feed on the blood of mammals,transmitting diseaseslike trypanosomiasis, also known as "African sleeping...
Health systems of several countries have been overwhelmed by COVID-19, and this impacted control of other major infectious diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus infection - HIV (Dongang Nana et al., 2022; Hogan et al., 2020). The virus has a strong cell ...
Morrow’s team discovered that babies of 2′-FL-secretor mothers seemed to be protected against infectious diarrhoea12. Other teams found that 2′-FL was effective against Campylobacter jejuni13— one of the most common causes of bacterial diarrhoea and infant mortality — and Pseudomonas aeruginosa...