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Ransomware, a type of malicious software that threatens to publish a victim’s data unless a ransom is paid, represents a major threat to global cyber security, according to Europol. The law enforcement agency’s Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA), a report that identifies emerging trends in cybercrime, also placed payment fraud and child sexual exploitation […]
Bulging waistlines are blamed for spiralling rates of Type 2 diabetes. About 240,000 people with the condition are diagnosed with heart disease or stroke each year. The British Heart Foundation, which conducted the research, said the figure included 23,200 who suffer a heart attack, 31,900 struck by a stroke and 92,800 who develop heart failure. […]
BRITAIN’S obesity epidemic has put hundreds of thousands at risk of heart disease and stroke, analysis shows. Daily Express :: Health Feed
BRITAIN faces the worst flu outbreak for almost 50 years and public health officials must take urgent steps to protect the public, experts have said. Daily Express :: Health Feed
The warning comes as Australia is in the grip of its worst season on record with more than 70,000 cases of flu and standing room only in some Accident and Emergency departments. Specialists say this strain is likely to hit our shores this winter as global travel means the virus will “almost inevitably” be carried […]
Published time: 14 Sep, 2017 20:56 Animated genitals have been drafted into the war on chlamydia in Sweden. In a video aimed to promote self-testing, thrilling action and epic music combine for a Hollywood-like trailer as the audience is told to “rubber up and enjoy the ride.” [embedded content] Kronoberg County’s ‘The Test’ uses a […]
Ajay Verma/Reuters The world has made enormous leaps in the fight against HIV/AIDS, to the extent that someone HIV-positive, with the right treatment, can expect to live as long as their healthy neighbor. But as billionaire Bill Gates recently noted, without the proper funding, the virus could make a dangerous resurgence. The Bill and Melinda […]
More than 500 people have died so far in a cholera epidemic that is sweeping Congo, the World Health Organization says. CBC | Health News
In 2011, Japan’s national census reported that the number of households in the country is increasing steadily while the population is declining. Essentially, there are more single-person households now than ever before, and the number is growing. Loneliness is an epidemic in Japan. According to a 2013 article in The Guardian, “Japan’s under-40s appear to […]
Two 15-year-old boys were jailed for life this week for stabbing Hussein Ahmed to death in Harrow last November, just one in a spate of lethal knife crimes to sweep the British capital. The two boys wept as they were sentenced at the Old Bailey on Monday. Another youth was slashed in the same assault […]
