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World Health Organization Analyzing Another Pesticide – Right on the heels of classifying Monsanto’s pesticide, Roundup, as “probably carcinogenic to humans,” the World Health Organization (WHO) is examining the ill-effects on health of another pesticide, 2, 4-D. Scientists from WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), are set to study 2, 4-D to see […]
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Loud music can damage your hearing, according to the World Health Organization. Noise levels above 85 decibels for 8 hours or 100 decibels for 15 minutes are unsafe and can lead to hearing loss or tinnitis, which is a constant ringing in the ears. More than one billion teenagers and young adults are at risk […]
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WHO Recommends Switching to Single-Use Syringes by 2020 – According to the World Health Organization, single-use syringes can help prevent the spread of infections like HIV and hepatitis. Normal syringes are cheaper and can be reused multiple times after being sterilized, but when not sterilized properly, the contaminated needles can lead to more infections. According […]
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E-learning matches traditional training for doctors, nurses: review – A review commissioned by the World Health Organization has found that millions more students worldwide could train as doctors and nurses using electronic learning, which is just as effective as traditional medical training. Researchers at Imperial College London who conducted the review said on Monday that […]
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Ebola Outbreak Forces Sierra Leone to Cancel Christmas – An increase in Ebola cases in Sierra Leone has forced the government to cancel public Christmas and New Year’s celebrations to curb infection. The Ebola virus continues to spread across Sierra Leone, leading health officials to take some serious measures to curb the rate of infection. […]
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Malaria Deaths Have Been Cut Nearly in Half Since 2000 – The number of people dying from malaria has been cut in half worldwide, but some factors still threaten efforts to eradicate the disease. New numbers released by the World Health Organization show worldwide, the number of people dying from malaria has been cut in […]
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Progress and challenges as World Aids Day is marked – It is World Aids Day and in South Africa, said to have the biggest HIV epidemic on the planet, efforts continue to stop its spread with condoms being handed out on the street. The country already has the world’s biggest treatment program and plans to […]
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Ebola Outbreak Worsens in West Africa, Death Toll Rises – Sierra Leone is on track to become the nation hardest hit by the disease. Close to 7,000 have died from Ebola in West Africa since the start of the outbreak, according to the latest numbers from the World Health Organization. Its most recent reports shows […]
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WHO Says Male Ebola Survivors Should Abstain from Sex – WHO cites four studies that say Ebola can still be detected in semen up to 82 days after the onset of symptoms. The World Health Organization, or WHO, is offering new advice for male survivors to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus: don’t have […]
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Experimental Ebola Vaccine Shows Promise in Human Trial – A recent test of a prototype Ebola vaccine generated an immune response to the disease in subjects. Initial human trials of an experimental ebola vaccine show promise, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health. A recent study exposed 20 healthy adults to the prototype […]
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Outbreak of the plague in Madagascar kills 40 – The World Health OrganiZation has sounded the alarm over an outbreak of the plague in Madagascar. It says 40 people have died since August, out of a total of some 120 cases. The WHO says there is a risk of the disease spreading rapidly, and not […]
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Second Polio Strain Possibly Eradicated, What’s Next? It’s been two years since any new cases of poliovirus type 3 have been reported, meaning it could be eradicated. In what researchers are calling a “historic milestone,” poliovirus type 3 might be completely eradicated — there have been no new reports of the strain in two years. […]
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