China H7N9 bird flu spreads to new province—state media
China’s H7N9 bird flu virus spread to a new province on Sunday, with state media reporting two human cases in central Henan just west of the area where the disease has been centred.
China’s H7N9 bird flu virus spread to a new province on Sunday, with state media reporting two human cases in central Henan just west of the area where the disease has been centred.
Smokers using electronic cigarettes in public places should also be apprehended like those puffing regular cigarettes in no smoking areas, a Department of Health (DOH) official said Tuesday.
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.
Makati residents be warned: Participating in the traditional “Pabasa” this Holy Week may be good for your soul but not for your health.
In order to entice Filipino doctors to stay in the country despite the lure of greener pastures abroad, Senator Antonio Trillanes IV has filed a bill seeking to increase the salary of physicians and providing them additional benefits.
More than 300 Pakistani children died of measles last year, a staggering increase on the previous 12 months and a result of three consecutive years of flooding, officials said Tuesday.
A health official says China will early next year start phasing out its reliance on organs from executed prisoners for transplants as a new national system of donations is implemented.
A new mysterious respiratory virus that has killed at least one person and left another in critical condition does not appear very contagious, the World Health Organization said Friday.
The Philippine government gained significant increases in exclusive breastfeeding rates, but the country needed to work on the challenges of breastfeeding when Filipino mothers resume their work, a joint statement from international health organizations said Wednesday.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said it was “deeply concerned” about research into whether the H5N1 flu virus could be made more transmissible between humans after mutant strains were produced in labs.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday stressed the need to tap the potential of traditional medicine as part of national health systems among countries in the Western Pacific Region. Indigenous healing practices, though abundant in the region, faced poor regulatory standards and questions about their efficacy, the WHO noted as it concluded its annual [...]
The Research Institute for Tropical Medicine has been designated as the Collaborating Centre for Malaria Diagnosis in the country by the World Health Organization, the Department of Health announced Friday.
PHNOM PENH – A four-year-old Cambodian girl has become the seventh person to die from bird flu in the country this year, officials said Friday. The child, from northwestern Banteay Meanchey province, died on July 20, the health ministry and the World Health Organization said in a joint statement. Tests confirmed she had contracted H5N1 [...]
