More than half of chronic diseases are preventable by changing lifestyles and reducing risks.The four key risk factors are: smoking, diets high in fats, salt and sugar, environments that prevent physical activities, and alcohol consumption.These are the areas on which efforts to make changes need...
A baby boy born in Bosnia-Herzegovina overnight has officially been named the world’s six billionth inhabitant. Although several other babies are likely to have been born at the same time elsewhere in the world, the United Nations had declared that the first child to be delivered at the Kos...
Actually, many kinds of diseases are preventable in many ways and preventing a disease is usually much cheaper than treating it. For example, people could avoid catching a cold if they dressed warmly when the weather starts getting cold. But many people get sick because they fail to do so,...
To the Editor: Trauma remains an ever-increasing cause of preventable years of life lost worldwide. Although prevention is paramount, the earliest identifi... I Crawford,C Tiruta,AW Kirkpatrick,... - 《Annals of Emergency Medicine Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians & the ...
McCaul then called for a “Manhattan-type project to deal with clean energy,” referring to the Manhattan Project that the country used to develop the atomic bomb in World War II. “I think these micro-nuclear devices, which I have had a lot of conversations with my state counterparts abou...
She adds that water-borne illness is the second-highest cause of preventable childhood death in the world.“Each and every day approximately 4,100 children die just because they don’t have that access - 4,100 every single day.”The public service campaign encourages people to help change ...
I don’t know, but it sure is crazy suspicious to have a preventable fire of this magnitude that somehow was not prevented, raze much of Los Angeles to the ground, leaving the mandate to rebuild, and as quickly as possible. Before you make up your mind,...
I find it very hard to see children dying from totally preventable diseases and people without access to clean water or shelter. I believe that everyone has a right to___. And I believe that a person’s dignity, if nothing else, even in the face of death, is vital. That’s what kee...
Yes, President Obama, though I doubted you while in office, we should have listened to you. In the past few weeks, we have witnessed a preventable debacle in which we squandered the lives of young American service members and set the stage for our eventual return to right a bad yet preve...
the pathogen as a new coronavirus on January 7. For about a week, no new confirmed cases were announced. Health authorities maintained there was “no obvious evidence for human to human transmission,” no infection of healthcare workers, and that the outbreak was “preventable and controllable....