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WHO recommends returning DDT
The World Health Organization (WHO) has overturned the 30-year-old policy by recommending that countries use DDT pesticides in malaria control. This medicine may be
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US aids Vietnam to develop H5N1 flu vaccine
The Prime Minister has agreed to the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology to receive nearly US $ 1 million from the US Department of Health to develop the H5N1 flu vacc…
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Obese people may lose vision
Obese people are twice as likely to lose sight, according to a new report by the Royal Institute of the Blind (RNIB), UK. The institute's study warns that millions of ad…
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Pure olive oil - the choice for heart health
Exceeding all other vegetable oils, virgin olive oil has a particularly good effect on heart health thanks to its high levels of antioxidants in its ingredients. This is…
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Obesity - a global pandemic
Obesity is becoming a global pandemic and a greater threat than bird flu or warming the Earth. It is a general warning of more than 2,500 health professionals attending…
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The appearance of TB strains is extremely dangerous
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned a new tuberculosis strain has killed 52 of 53 people infected in South Africa. This new strain is found in South Africa's…
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Personality does not depend on genes
Gene shaped our health and appearance more than our character. A new study on thousands of people living in an area isolated from the world has shown that.
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Quit smoking without gaining weight
Smoking is harmful to health as everyone knows it increases the risk of cancer, heart and lung. If you do not smoke, never smoke, if you are a smoker, quit immediately.…
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Goiter fell 6 times after a decade
Dr. Luong Ngoc Khue, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Health's Treatment Department, said that in 1993, more than 22% of children aged 8-10 had goiter; 94% of the populati…
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The number of people with meningococcal meningitis increases rapidly
The Ministry of Health reports that the number of meningococcal meningitis in the first eight months of 2006 has increased sharply compared to the same period in 2005. S…
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India & China are at increased risk of HIV / AIDS
At the 16th AIDS Conference in the city of Toronto (Canada), delegates from Asia voiced alarm about the situation of the disease is tending to be difficult to control at…
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Yellow snail: Terrors in the fields and dining tables
In recent days, Chinese public opinion has been shaken by the news that 87 people in Beijing's capital have suffered from meningitis, after they ate the snail or live sn…
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More opportunities for cancer patients
Gamma knife surgery center (Hue University Hospital of Medicine and Pharmacy) has just officially introduced gamma knife to serve. This opens a new direction for the med…
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Needles ... butterfly!
Researchers at the University of New Mexico Science and Health Center believe they have found a way to make patients less fearful: decorating flowers, butterflies and hu…
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Slow breathing can lower blood pressure
Experts at the National Institutes of Health say slow and deep breathing (less than 10 times per minute) and doing this exercise a few minutes a day can help some people…