Month: January 2015

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A top U.N. official in the fight against Ebola greeted just three patients at one treatment center he visited this week in Sierra Leone. Families in Liberia are no longer required to cremate the remains of loved ones to halt the spread of the virulent disease.

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Every year nearly 40 percent of Americans make a weight-related New Year's resolution, yet only 8 percent of people actually keep their resolutions, …
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Two new tools to fight AIDS should be available by 2030 in the form of a vaccine and new intense drug treatments, ending most cases of a disease that has killed millions in the past 30 years, Bill Gates said. The Microsoft founder, whose philanthropic foundation has poured millions of dollars into medical research, told the World Economic Forum in Davos the "two miracles" were within reach in the coming years. A vaccine is seen as pivotal in preventing new infections among susceptible populations, while new kinds of intense drug treatments should do away with the need for life-long pills, he said. Gates, whose Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plays a major role in funding medical research, is also optimistic about the fight against malaria, where work on a vaccine is more advanced than for AIDS.

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Los Angeles: Low carb diets may be used as a weight loss tool by some … latest National Diet and Nutrition Survey, is bad news for digestive health, …
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Los Angeles, Jan 24: Low carb diets may be used as a weight loss tool by some … The average fibre intake is already low and avoidance of foods like … to the latest National Diet and Nutrition Survey, is bad news for digestive health, …
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I should emphasis that it is not a weight–loss diet but rather just an ongoing selection of healthy foods with no restrictions on calories. Here is a report …
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By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Scientists looking for Ebola in bats have identified 16 other viruses in the animal which could jump to humans and potentially cause a disease outbreak on a similar scale to the West African crisis, a health security expert said on Friday. Professor Nigel Lightfoot said the additional viruses had been identified by scientists from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in South Africa. “They tell me they have got 16 other (viruses)…which are just waiting to spread to humans and cause the next (epidemic),” he told a conference in London on tackling serious infectious diseases. Lightfoot said the World Bank would shortly announce hundreds of millions of dollars in investment in infrastructure in the three countries worst affected by Ebola – Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

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Madison Brengle could conceivably be the new face of advertising campaigns Down Under that urge people to 'slip, slop, slap' during the scorching summer months to help Australians and New Zealanders to lower the risk of skin cancers. The 24-year-old American, who made the fourth round of a grand slam for the first time on Saturday with a surprise 6-3 6-2 victory over compatriot Coco Vandeweghe, was lucky to be in Australia at all.

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