According to "Tobacco Atlas", which released on Monday (March 09), tobacco usage will kill six million people annually by 2010, and drain $500 billion from the worldwide economy that exceeds the total combined annual expenditure on health in all low and middle income nations.
The atlas reported that the tobacco industry has made the countries having less efficient public health plans and poor resources as their major areas of focus.
Think twice before you decide to get a tattoo. A Mississauga tattoo shop might have put up to 3,000 people at risk of HIV and hepatitis and people who have received tattoos or piercings at that shop have been advised by health officials to get blood tests.
A Peel Region health official is of opinion that poor record keeping and little public health oversight might have put lives of up to 3,000 people at risk.
According to researchers teens with low levels of vitamin D had a higher risk of heart disease and diabetes and are also significantly more likely to have high blood pressure and blood sugar.
The study by Jared P. Reis, PhD, and colleagues from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, was presented at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association. It said that the link between adults with low vitamin D levels and an increased risk for diabetes and heart disease was known but it now apparent that a lack of vitamin D can trigger these risks earlier in life.
U. S. researchers said curcumin, turmeric's main ingredient, has a wide repertoire of health benefits ranging from antioxidant, anti-cancer, antibiotic, antiviral and other properties.
India has long known the healing powers of turmeric and the spice has been used for centuries to treat wounds, infections and other health problems though how exactly it works inside the body was never clear.
Pfizer the pharmaceutical major has tied up with Max Healthcare to help smokers quit and plans on opening 600 smoking cessation clinics by the end of 2010 in and around New Delhi. India has 120 million tobacco users and the cessation clinics are much needed.
The newest edition of the "Tobacco Atlas" released on Monday paints a grim picture of Tobacco usage, which is likely to take lives of around six million people throughout the world by 2010.
The report also disclosed that it drain approximately $500 billion from the global economy, on a yearly basis, as the industry has shifted its focus to poor nations, which have less effective public health plans.
World Lung foundation jointly with American Cancer society (ACS) prepared the Atlas.
According to "Tobacco Atlas", which released on Monday (March 09), tobacco usage will kill six million people annually by 2010, and drain $500 billion from the worldwide economy that exceeds the total combined annual expenditure on health in all low and middle income nations.
Think twice before you decide to get a tattoo. A Mississauga tattoo shop might have put up to 3,000 people at risk of HIV and hepatitis and people who have received tattoos or piercings at that shop have been advised by health officials to get blood tests.
According to researchers teens with low levels of vitamin D had a higher risk of heart disease and diabetes and are also significantly more likely to have high blood pressure and blood sugar. 
U. S. researchers said curcumin, turmeric's main ingredient, has a wide repertoire of health benefits ranging from antioxidant, anti-cancer, antibiotic, antiviral and other properties. 
Pfizer the pharmaceutical major has tied up with Max Healthcare to help smokers quit and plans on opening 600 smoking cessation clinics by the end of 2010 in and around New Delhi. India has 120 million tobacco users and the cessation clinics are much needed. 
The newest edition of the "Tobacco Atlas" released on Monday paints a grim picture of Tobacco usage, which is likely to take lives of around six million people throughout the world by 2010.
