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Lisa Schlein GENEVA — The U.N. Children’s Fund reports a steep drop in the price of a crucial childhood vaccine will prevent millions of deaths in dozens of the world’s poorest countries. The U.N. children’s fund reports 1.5 million children under five die each year from illnesses preventable by vaccines. Thanks to a breakthrough deal with […]Load more...
Jessica Berman WASHINGTON — Have you ever noticed how some people seem to be bitten by mosquitoes more than anyone else? Apparently some people taste better to malaria mosquitoes than others, and scientists are trying to figure out why, so they can turn that information into a repellent to protect us all from malaria. Such a […]Load more...
Ceremony Central Falls – The new Blackstone Valley community health center is expected to offer more services and extended hours, soon at the new, state-of-the-art health center. Saturday’s groundbreaking also included an appearance by Emmy award winning actress Viola Davis, who grew up in Central Falls. The new Neighborhood Health Station will be located in […]Load more...
In one-third of people with diabetes, the «gold standard» method for monitoring blood sugar levels is inaccurate. But scientists have found a way to fix the discrepancy, helping diabetics more effectively manage their disease. There are 422 million people with diabetes worldwide, according to World Health Organization estimates, and they face such devastating complications of […]Load more...
La Federación Mundial del Corazón llama la atención hacia las enfermedades cardiovasculares y hace recomendaciones para mantener un corazón saludable. El 29 de septiembre se celebró el Día Mundial del Corazón, y es el día más importante de la Federación Mundial del Corazón, para llamar la atención hacia las enfermedades cardiovasculares y cómo mantener un […]Load more...
VOA NEWS Según el Instituto Karolinska, Ohsumi realizó «brillantes experimentos» en la década de 1990 sobre la autofagia, el mecanismo con el que las células reciclan su contenido. El científico japonés Yoshinori Ohsumi ganó el Premio Nobel de Medicina de este año por descubrimientos relacionados con la degradación y reciclaje de los componentes celulares. Según […]Load more...
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Senator Jack Reed announced that Rhode Island Hospital will receive $1,877,090 in federal funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as part of the Environmental Influence on Children’s Health Outcomes (ECHO) initiative, which is designed to study how environmental factors in early development influence the health of children and adolescents. […]Load more...
VOA News U.S. health authorities are urging men to wait six months before trying to conceive a baby with their partner if they have traveled to an area with the Zika virus, which can cause devastating birth defects. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday extended the time recommendation for men from […]Load more...
India’s decision to conduct new trials on the world’s first leprosy vaccine is eliciting hope it will help eliminate the dreaded disease from the country. Following a declaration by the World Health Organization (WHO), India has been officially counted as a leprosy-free country since 2005, meaning less than one person in 10,000 people is afflicted […]Load more...
Not everyone who is infected with HIV goes on to develop AIDS. A tiny fraction of HIV-positive adults holds the line against AIDS by mounting a very strong immune response; but, research has found that such an approach often contributes to the development of other illnesses, such as heart disease and cancers. Scientists at Oxford […]Load more...
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