Month: June 2015

Spain remained locked in a heat wave on Tuesday with most of the country on high alert for forest fires and the elderly urged to take extra care. Spain's national weather office put 40 of the nation's 50 provinces on either "yellow" or "orange" alert due to the scorching temperatures which are forecast to dip on Wednesday before rising again at the weekend. The highest temperatures were expected to be recorded in the central province of Toledo where the mercury was forecast to rise to 41 degrees Celsius (105.8 Fahrenheit).

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Health supplements, including vitamins, weight–loss products, nutritional … A strict vegan diet is low in iron, vitamin B12, zinc, calcium and omega-3 …
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By Katy Migiro NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The mother of a 15-year-old rape survivor, who needs a kidney transplant following a botched backstreet abortion, filed a case against Kenya’s government on Monday for denying women and girls safe access to terminations. The girl, who said she became pregnant when she was raped by an older man, started vomiting and bleeding heavily after an unsafe abortion. Rape survivors have difficulty accessing safe abortions in Kenya, despite being allowed to under the ministry of health’s guidelines on managing sexual violence, the petition said.
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… away from the brand's typical association with diet and weight loss, and if its claim that it is part of a “healthy lifestyle” is far-fetched it at least presents …
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One of the three districts of Sierra Leone where new cases of Ebola have been recorded will jail those who break a new emergency by-law designed to prevent the spread of the disease, an official said Sunday. The District Ebola Response Centre Coordinator, Raymond Kabia said "a high-level stakeholders meeting" on Friday decided that "violators of the by-laws would no longer be fined but will go to jail for six months instead". The official said President Ernest Bai Koroma has ordered all government ministers and lawmakers from the districts affected to go to the areas to help in the operation to stop new infections.

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Things such as smoking, diet, physical activity, exposure to radiation and other carcinogens can impact our future health. Taking healthy steps today …
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A 6-year-old boy has died in Spain's first case of diphtheria since 1987, his hospital said Saturday. The child had not been vaccinated against the disease amid controversy over the potential side-effects of the jab, and had been fighting the bacterial infection for a month. The Vall d'Hebrone hospital in Barcelona confirmed on its Twitter account "the death of a patient with diphtheria" who had been hospitalised at the end of May.

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