Health

05/28/2015, 17:00 Time
Jose A. Martin

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, Princess of Asturias Award

For Technical and Scientific Research

USPA NEWS - The biochemists Emmanuelle Charpentier (France) and Jennifer Doudna (USA) have been bestowed with the 2015 Prin...

05/26/2015, 16:17 Time
Jose A. Martin

EU will help children to learn about healthy eating

They are eating fewer fruit

USPA NEWS - Children are eating fewer and fewer fruit, vegetables and dairy products in Europe, but a new proposal could he...

04/29/2015, 20:53 Time
David Franciamore

SIX OUT OF TEN OVERCOME CANCER IN ITALY

CANCER RELATED DEATHS DOWN BY 20%

USPA NEWS - Six out of 10 cancer patients in Italy overcome the disease, but care across the country's 20 regions is incons...

04/25/2015, 10:51 Time
Jose A. Martin

Commission authorises 17 GMOs for food/feed uses and 2 GM carnations

Authorisations are valid for 10 years

USPA NEWS - The Commission adopted 10 new authorisations for Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) for food/feed use, 7 ren...

04/25/2015, 10:40 Time
Jose A. Martin

Malaria: a persistent health threat that we must face head on

Malaria deaths have fallen by 25%

USPA NEWS - Neven Mimica, EU Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development; Vytenis Andriukaitis, EU Commissio...

04/24/2015, 09:33 Time
Jose A. Martin

MEPs to call for stronger EU alcohol strategy

3.3 million premature deaths worldwide

USPA NEWS - Requiring alcoholic drink producers to state calorie content and ingredients on the label should be considered ...

04/22/2015, 17:03 Time
Jose A. Martin

€150,000 for a kidney: the lethal trade in illegal organs

An international problem

USPA NEWS - The demand for organs far outstrips what is available, leading to illegal trafficking in organs all over the wo...

03/31/2015, 11:46 Time
Jose A. Martin

Vall d´Hebron Hospital has successfully performed a new face transplant

In Barcelona

USPA NEWS - A multidisciplinary team of Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, in Barcelona, led by Dr. Joan-Pere Barret, head ...

03/30/2015, 15:00 Time
David Franciamore

FIRST TRANSPLANT WITH NON-BEATING HEART IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE

60-YEAR-OLD PATIENT RECOVERING WELL

USPA NEWS - The first heart transplant using a non-beating heart was successfully carried out in Europe, the British press ...

03/26/2015, 08:42 Time
Jose A. Martin

Spain signed the International Convention on combating trafficking in organs

Of the Council of Europe

USPA NEWS - Spain has signed the International Convention on combating trafficking in organs of the Council of Europe, the ...

03/21/2015, 09:15 Time
David Franciamore

UNITED NATIONS-IN 15 YEARS EARTH WILL BE FACING SERIOUS WATER SHORTAGE

THE CURRENT USAGE UNSUSTAINABLE

USPA NEWS - The world's water reserves are diminishing rapidly and if trends continue, within 15 years the planet will face...

03/12/2015, 17:37 Time
Jose A. Martin

Kidney transplants do earn more than 7,000 centuries of life

World Kidney Day 2015

USPA NEWS - Experts estimate that kidney disease affects about 10% of citizens. Of these, a percentage can lead to kidney f...

03/06/2015, 08:46 Time
David Franciamore

ITALY-BREAKTHROUGH COULD LEAD TO NEW AIDS DRUG

STUDY IN TRIESTE FINDS HIVs HIDING PLACE

USPA NEWS - A group of researchers at Trieste's International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) has...

02/20/2015, 08:41 Time
Jose A. Martin

Europe is drowning

Air pollution exceeds maximum

USPA NEWS - The quality of the air they breathe European pollution exceeds the limits set by the EU and the World Health Or...

02/04/2015, 15:40 Time
David Franciamore

ARE VITAMIN DRINKS GOOD FOR US?

NUTRITION SCIENTISTS ARE CONCERNED

USPA NEWS - Juices, sports drinks and water are increasingly being added with vitamins and minerals by companies, respondin...

01/31/2015, 09:22 Time
David Franciamore

IS A DISEASE DECLARED VANQUISHED 15 YEARS AGO BACK TO THREATEN A HEALTH CRISIS?

VACCINE CRITICS DEFENSIVE OVER MEASLES

USPA NEWS - Children have been sent home from school, families barred from birthday parties and play dates. Online, people ...

12/11/2014, 15:13 Time
USPA News

Dutch forensic experts identify all foreign MH17 victims

USPA News - Forensic experts in the Netherlands have this week identified two more victims of downed Malaysia Airlines Flig...

12/02/2014, 23:23 Time
USPA News

UPDATE1 -- Bird flu found at 2 poultry farms in Canada

USPA News - A bird flu virus of subtype H5 has been found at two poultry farms in British Columbia, the Canadian government...

11/21/2014, 21:39 Time
USPA News

Bubonic plague in Madagascar kills at least 40, sickens 79

USPA News - An outbreak of the bubonic plague has killed at least 40 people in Madagascar, the World Health Organization (W...

11/21/2014, 19:17 Time
USPA News

Bird flu found at 2 more farms in the Netherlands

USPA News - Bird flu has been found at two more farms in the Netherlands, more than 90 kilometers (56 miles) from where two...

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