For decades, health officials have battled malaria with insecticides, bed nets and drugs. Now, scientists say there might be a potent new tool to fight the deadly mosquito-borne disease: the stench of human feet.
No new human cases of the H7N9 virus have been recorded in China for a week, national health authorities said, for the first time since the outbreak began in March.
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The death toll from the H7N9 bird flu outbreak in China has risen to 31, according to official figures, with four more people dying of the virus in China’s eastern provinces.
More than 300,000 babies die within 24 hours of being born in India each year from infections and other preventable causes, a report said Tuesday, blaming a lack of political will and funding for the crisis.
A World Health Organization team was due Monday to wrap up a trip to Shanghai, center of China’s bird flu outbreak which has killed 20 people, as part of an investigation into how the virus is spreading.
The World Health Organization on Tuesday played down fears over a strain of bird flu which has killed two people in China, but said it was crucial to find out how the virus infected humans.
My colleague and friend Regina Hechanova, the president of the Psychological Association of the Philippines (PAP), alerted me to an article on “Being Gay” that came out in another newspaper.
Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista has instructed the local health office to make sure that all its 66 health centers are fully equipped with sufficient supplies to treat residents afflicted with summer diseases.
The number of people afflicted with tuberculosis (TB) in Northern Mindanao is increasing, according to the Department of Health (DOH). This, however, meant an improvement in the monitoring of health officials, according to a regional DOH executive.
The number of dead pigs found in a Shanghai river that provides drinking water to the Chinese financial hub has risen to 7,545, after local authorities retrieved 944 more pigs Thursday.
Leomar Fabian was very active despite having high fever on Saturday and, by all indications, he was on the road to recovery.
Mayor Benjamin Dy, who served as Isabela governor from 1992 to 2001, died due to complications from recurring emphysema at St. Luke’s Medical Center in Metro Manila on Saturday, a close aide said.
