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The global tobacco industry continues to interfere with governments’ efforts to implement the World Health Organization’s (WHO) policy package which aims to reduce peoples demand for tobacco, the UN agency has said. Countries that are signatories to WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control are bound by the international treaty to implement the so-called MPOWER policy, […]
FASHIONABLE juice-based diets and an addiction to fizzy drinks have helped fuel an “epidemic” in gout, experts warn. Daily Express :: Health Feed
Alex B./Yelp Sushi, grilled cheese, and most breakfast cereals have one thing in common (aside from being delicious): they’re all rich in refined carbohydrates, either in the form of white rice, white bread, or white flour. Although the ingredient sounds positive, it isn’t, at least when it comes to your health. In comparison with their […]
AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File Deaths related to opioid overdoses have been on the rise for a long time. More than 183,000 people died from overdoses related to prescription opioid painkillers like oxycodone, hydrocodone, fentanyl, and morphine over the last 15+ years. It’s at the point where the FDA has asked one drugmaker to take its extended release opioid painkiller, Opana […]
acousticskyy/Flickr About two decades ago, a woman knocked on the door of Paul Hewitt, a clinical psychologist based in Vancouver, Canada. Outwardly, Anita — the pseudonym given in Hewitt’s new book — had everything meticulously together: she told her therapist of an idyllic childhood, the supportive family she came from, the daughter she felt close to, her broad network of […]
The funding will be used to help people understand and better manage their condition with the aid of specialist help. But the size of the task is huge. Help tackling lifestyle driven Type 2 is now available to 26 million people yet so far just 68,000 have been referred. Latest figures show 3.6 million people […]
HEALTH chiefs have recognised the scale of the diabetes epidemic facing Britain by setting aside £42million for “tailored treatments” for those at risk. Daily Express :: Health Feed
Opioid abuse is rampant in states like Ohio, where paramedics are increasingly spending time responding to overdoses and where coroners’ offices are running out of room to store bodies. In 2012, there were 793 million doses of opioids prescribed in the state, enough to supply every man, woman, and child, with 68 pills each. Roughly […]
A letter to the editor in a prestigious medical journal was part of a push to convince physicians to prescribe opioids more freely by downplaying addiction risks, Canadian researchers say. CBC | Health News
The virus that downed critical digital infrastructure in the UK’s National Health Service and locked thousands of people out of their computers may be about to get worse, warns the head of Europol. Rob Wainwright, executive director of the European Union’s crime agency, said the spread of the ‘WannaCry’ virus was “unprecedented,” resulting in more […]
