Public Health

Public health is a coordinated service that attempts to improve global medical care and quality of life of the population as a whole. This specialty focuses on social medicine and prevention and treatment of diseases within a community. This section provides information on public health and public health issues.
Each of the categories below includes information about various health issues to increase public awareness and thus help in disease prevention. Read to know about major public health issues worldwide.
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Minnesota's Smoking Ban Begins - A Victory for Public Respitory Health
Why I am so happy this law is finally taking effect in my great state.

Heart Diseases and Women
The results from the largest-ever international study on heart diseases reveal that women are more likely to die from cardiovascular disease than men, the World Health Organization announced.

What Does The National Arthritis Foundation Do?
The non-profit National Arthritis Foundation first opened for business in 1984. It now is responsible for branches and research all over the world. The foundation’s aim is to educate both patients and the public about arthritis and the need to support arthritis research.

Malaria Deaths Halved in Seven African Countries
Successes follow intensive drive to protect people from disease, World Health Organization says

The Advocacy of National Arthritis Foundation
The National Arthritis Foundation was founded in 1984 as a charitable institution. It is actually the largest public organization of its like on its country of origin, Singapore. The foundation was established primarily to help all arthritis patients situated all over the world.

Auriculotherapy for Smoking Cessation
Auriculotherapy is a safe and effective treatment accepted by the World Health Organization and approved by the FDA. It is a painless treatment used to balance and normalize psychological functions. Those who wish to give up their smoking addiction can choose auriculotherapy.

How to deal with environmental toxins
Environmental toxins of modern-day life are more than the body can handle. Environmental toxins will build up in our body fat. The World Health Organization is pointing the finger at environmental toxins as key contributors to disease. Removal of toxins can have a positive effect on your good health.

Global Breast Cancer Crisis
Cancer has become a global concern as it is for breast cancer. Breast cancer is the most lethal form of cancer for women in the world. Studies show that leaner body mass, exercise and healthier diet have a counter-effect on breast cancer.

World Health Organisation: New Rapid Tests for Multi-drug Resistant Tb
A new drive along with funding to stop the disease spreading around the world was announced yesterday

A new approval of UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
The article reports that NICE, the UK’s NGO responsible for approving medications and treatments for use within the National Health Service, has just approved Acomplia. This is a positive step forward for Sanofi-Aventis which has been finding it difficult to convince regulatory authorities that Acomplia is a medication rather than a "lifestyle" drug.

UN Overstated Aids Risk, Says Specialist
Agency 'has wasted billions' on HIV education, says former senior Aids official with the World Health Organisation

Global Flu Pandemic Would Probably Kill 62m, Study Says
Around 62 million people in the world are likely to die if there is a flu pandemic and more than 70,000 of those deaths will be in the UK, according to a statistical analysis published today.

World Hiv Infection Estimate is Cut
The UN and the World Health Organization significantly cut their estimates of the number of people with the HIV virus today, after a large downward revision of HIV cases in India

Road Deaths Are the World's Most Neglected Public Health Issue
The world's most neglected public health issue needs a champion, but let it not be the global motor industry. By George Monbiot

Public Tobacco Smoking Laws Aid to Quit Smoking
The dangers of nicotine have prompted governments and organizations to take action. See how there's legislation leading to stopping tobacco cigarette smoking.

Vatican Urged to Act Quickly on Condoms
The World Health Organisation's head of HIV/Aids called on the Vatican yesterday to speed up a decision on the limited use of condoms in pandemic-hit countries.

WHO Aims to Wipe Out Polio Within Four Years
· New vaccine targets last strongholds of killer virus · Global eradication would be first since smallpox

WHO Plea to Drugs Companies
Drug companies should not take out patents on their new medicines or enforce patents in poor countries if that is likely to prevent patients from getting them, an influential commission set up by the World Health Organisation said yesterday.

Tamiflu Still Best Hope Against Bird Flu, Says Who
A senior World Health Organisation official yesterday sought to calm fears that the drug the world is stockpiling may have limited usefulness in a flu pandemic.

Flu Pandemic: New Doubts Over Key Drug
Studies show resistance to Tamiflu.

Health Agency Refuses to Hire Any More Smokers
The World Health Organisation has stopped employing smokers as part of its drive to curb tobacco use.

French Health Service 'on Verge of Collapse'
A government commission has warned that without fundamental reforms France's national health service, rated the best in the world by the World Health Organisation, will collapse within the next 15 years. The high council on the future of national health insurance said yesterday that if...

Sugar Industry Threatens to Scupper Who
The sugar industry in the US is threatening to bring the World Health Organisation to its knees by demanding that Congress end its funding unless the WHO scraps guidelines on healthy eating, due to be published on Wednesday. The threat is being described by WHO insiders as tantamount to...

Breakthrough in Search for Killer Bug
Scientists hope they have identified the bug responsible for worldwide health warnings linked to a virulent form of pneumonia. The World Health Organisation believes the discovery of a virus from the family responsible for mumps and measles could represent an important breakthrough in the...

Global Differential Pricing
ast April, the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, and the US-based Global Health Council held a 3-days workshop about "Pricing and Financing of Essential Drugs" in poor countries.

Poorer nations urge action over sanitation
After hailing their first apparent breakthrough on fisheries stocks, delegates at the earth summit on sustainable development focused today on trying to bring fresh water and sanitation to the hundreds of millions of people who currently lack access to either.

Fatal fever that lurks in the swamps
Scientists confirm epidemic but try to quell alarm after seven deaths. Americans have suddenly turned their attention away from their government's enemies and are facing up to the threat of an adversary far more numerous, insidious and better-established than any terrorist cell, and arguably more determined, too: themosquito.

World 'must spend more' to fight disease
At least 8m lives could be saved every year and the life expectancy and prosperity of the poorest nations transformed if the world agreed significant investment to fight disease, according to a report from the World Health Organisation yesterday. The report, by the Commission on...