BEIJING, Feb. 38 (Xinhuanet) — Six people who underwent procedures at a clinic in Las Vegas, Navada, have been infected with the blood-borne hepatitis C virus and about 40,000 more should be tested for the virus, as well as for HIV, U.S. health officials said Wednesday. Five of the people were treated the same day in late September [...]
BEIJING, Feb. 28 (Xinhuanet) — Eating yogurt and other foods laden with lactic acid may keep your gums from receding and teeth from falling out, Japanese researchers report. Dr. Yoshihiro Shimazaki and colleagues found that consuming yogurt and lactic acid drinks was significantly associated with better periodontal health.
”But, milk and cheese were not,” Shimazaki said.
Periodontal disease [...]
BALI, Indonesia, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) — Four countries in Southeast Asia, Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam have suffered 9 billion U.S. dollars economic loss annually due to poor implementation of sanitation, about 2 percent of their combined GDP, a recent study conducted by the World Bank has said. The study said that Indonesia, the biggest [...]
BEIJING, Feb. 28 (Xinhuanet) — A panel of U.S. federal vaccine advisers recommended Wednesday that all children aged from six months up to 18 In U.S. should be immunized every year against influenza. The panel agreed that new recommendations should go into effect as soon as possible, but no later than the 2009-2010 flu season.
Currently, the [...]
ROME, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) — Malta’s national hospital of Mater Dei opened its first traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) clinic, also the first of its kind in state hospitals in any European countries, reports reaching here from Malta’s capital Valletta said Wednesday. At an opening ceremony, Malta’s Health Minister Louis Deguara and Chinese ambassador Chai Xi congratulated Mater [...]
Discover female sterility clues in time
The reason of the female sterility is various, mostly can is divided into three major types:Machine quality pathological changes factor, immunity factor, endocrine factor, but sometimes these 3 types or among them of two types of reason may be keep both.In recent years the diagnosis and treatment center of [...]
Vaginitis favourite is “sweet” of you
The day off stays to guard a tribe to lead a big slice addiction of is not in the minority, in spite of go to the movie or watch a television, sweetmeat, snack it extremely bear comparison with a child at the female’s come-on.But”eat sugar ratio more the smoking endanger [...]
Medicare scheme to go nationwide
A regional pilot scheme designed to provide basic medical insurance for all urban citizens will go nationwide this year, a senior labor official said yesterday.
A further 229 cities will be added to the scheme this year, Wang Dongjin, former vice-minister of labor and social security and head of a team of [...]
Anti-HIV gel proven safe, tolerable for women
A gel using anti-HIV drug tenofovir to shield women from AIDS has been proven safe for daily use and acceptable to women, study findings showed Tuesday.
The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the University of Pittsburgh to test the gel’s safety, involved [...]
Global malaria distribution map released
BEIJING, Feb. 26 (Xinhuanet) — About 35 percent of the world population, meaning 2.37 billion people, are at risk from malaria, one of the world’s deadliest diseases, as the first global spatial distribution map, published Tuesday, showed. ”We were very surprised to find a significant number of people were facing a much [...]
