Almost Five Million Children Reached In Latest Iraq Polio Drive In its determination to maintain polio-free status, the Government of Iraq successfully completed another national drive in delivering vaccinations to almost 5 million children under five years of age throughout the country. Special focus was given to areas with a high influx of newly returned IDPs.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comFDA Seizes Contaminated Heparin From A Cincinnati Manufacturer As part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's ongoing efforts to ensure that heparin for patients remains safe, the government today seized 11 lots of heparin from Celsus Laboratories Inc. in Cincinnati, Ohio. The five lots of Heparin Sodium Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) and six lots of Heparin Lithium were seized at the FDA's request by U.S. Marshals.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comFree Public Lecture, RCOG Consumer's Forum: Birthing Choices, What Is The Best Option For You? The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) Consumers' Forum is hosting a free public lecture, Birthing Choices: What is the best option for you?, in London at 6.30pm, Thursday 04 December.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comImaging Techniques Reveal Asthma-Causing Immune Cells At Work Immune cells known as eosinophils have a central role in causing asthma.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comResearchers Focus On The New Science Of Epigenetics Today, at the annual research conference of the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR), a panel of leading scientists presented promising research involving the new science of epigenetics and cancer development. Epigenetics refers to any alterations in how our genes get translated (or expressed) that do not involve direct changes to the DNA itself.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCoordinated Response To Economic And Environmental Crises Urged At Top Scientific Meeting A fix for the economy must address ecological threats, a top international scientific meeting here has urged. Human society is moving dangerously beyond the planet's natural limits in a striking parallel to the financial debt crisis. "We're running the planet like a subprime loan," Dr. Johan Rockström of the Stockholm Resilience Centre said.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCancer Experts Debate Vitamin D, Sunlight And Risk The association between vitamin D and cancer risk is one of the most studied, most complex and most controversial issues in nutrition science. Today, at a major scientific conference on diet and cancer, a panel of vitamin D experts weighed in, and presented evidence that sought to provide some clarity.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comAsthma UK Slams Inadequate Services For Minority Ethnic Communities Asthma UK is calling on the Government to take bold and crucial steps to safeguard the
health of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) groups who are being let down by their current services. Speaking Up, a new report by Asthma UK, reveals that many people from minority ethnic backgrounds in England are regularly confronted with poor and inaccessible services from the NHS.
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