Politics and Policies:
- The Obama administration has given conditional approval to health insurance market places being set up by six states led by Democratic governors.
- New Jersey Assembly panel passes a bill allowing driver’s licenses to include diabetic condition.
- The Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) has set a standard in the middle of the range of 11- 13 micrograms per cubic meter for the soot particles in the air.
- Michigan works to ban synthetic drug phenethylamine.
Programs:
- The United Nations (UN) has asked for $8.5 billion to deliver urgent humanitarian aid to 51 million people in crisis-stricken countries around the world in 2013.
- The U N has launched an initiative to help to eliminate cholera in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
- Emergency vaccinations campaign has been organized in Sudan by its Federal Ministry of Health against mosquito- borne yellow fever.
- Third phase of measles and rubella (MR) vaccination campaign has been started in Nepal.
- The UN has warned that nearly 55 million tons of radioactive waste from old Soviet-era uranium mines in unsecured sites in northern Tajikistan.
- The state of Iowa is planning to spend $3.2 million on tobacco prevention and cessation.
- MidMichigan Health receives grant to fight childhood obesity.
Research:
- A Sudanese neurologist has succeeded in giving the first clinical and psychological description of spastic paraplegia.
- Researchers at the University of California and the University of Oxford have found a link between type-2 diabetes and corn syrup consumption.
- A study published in Lancet states that air pollution tops the list of major health risk among the developing countries.
- A study finds years living with disease and injury increasing globally.
- In a study done by the researchers in United Kingdom, they found a link between the foliate consumption and risk of developing breast cancer.
- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given approval for Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) and Philadelphia Chromosome positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
- According to a study about 10% of the 6- 8 year old children of Finland have sleep – disordered breathing.
- Experts say “plethora” of diseases caused by low vitamin D.
- A study links work place bullying to developing risk for anxiety/ depression/ psychological problems.
- A study done by the U.S. researcher’s show that Blacks have higher risk of heart disease. They have a double risk of dying of coronary disease.
- A study links drinking coffee with reduction in risk of throat and mouth cancer. It states that drinking more than four cups of coffee can cause significant rate of risk reduction.
- Researchers at University of Copenhagen have found a very important function of BRCA2 gene. This knowledge could be used for the treatment of breast cancer.
- A 2010 study states that the television in bedrooms may boost heart disease and diabetes among the children.
- A study links innate immunity and inflammation pathway with advanced prostate cancer risk.
Diseases and Disasters:
- Outbreak of diarrhea killed seven people from lower Shabelle region in Southern Somalia.
- A report released by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that Alaska ranks number one in United States for Chlamydia.
- Seventh death due to fungal meningitis has been reported in Indiana (U.S.).
- A report released by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that Louisiana leads the nation in rates of gonorrhea and syphilis cases.
- Drug resistant infection cluster has been reported in South Dakota. People who are healthy are not at risk as compared to those on ventilators, urinary or intravenous catheters or long courses of certain antibiotics.
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