Health News

Listeria: A Major Concern!

CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) at Ottawa has warned people prone to Listeriosis: A Major Concern! allergies due to egg, milk, and soy, to not consume certain products produced, by Baltic Bread Products of Hamilton. 

Baltic Bread bakery products with expiring dates up to and including Sept. 21 2008 are of major concern, as most of these products contain egg, milk and soy which are not displayed on the label. 

Race for The Cure Raises a Record $250,000 for Breast Cancer

More than 4200 walkers and runners participated in the annual ‘Komen Maine Race for The Cure Raises a Record $250,000 for Breast CancerRace for the Cure’ on Sunday. The annual event sustains breast cancer survivors and raises money for education, screening and treatment programs for breast cancer. This years event saw an all time high of more than $250,000 being collected in donations. 

Flowers Can Help You Experience The World Of Sweet Dreams

Flowers are the symbol of happiness and greetings and a recent study carried out Flowers Can Help You Experience The World Of Sweet Dreams by a team of German Researchers has put forward the fact that sleeping with flowers in your bedroom will give you the experience of sweet dreams.  

The team used 15 female volunteers to reach this conclusion, and they analyzed their sleep for full 30 days.  

Nearly 13,000 Children Fall Prey To China Milk Scandal

The Chinese Health Ministry announced in a statement, released late on Sunday, Nearly 13,000 Children Fall Prey To China Milk Scandal that the number of children affected by consuming contaminated milk products has doubled, with about 12,900 in hospital and 104 of them seriously ill. This has reportedly been one of the worst product safety scandals in years.  

More than 80 percent of the sick were reported to be under age two. Hitherto, four deaths have been blamed on toxic milk powder causing kidney stones and agonizing complications.

Euthanasia For Patients Suffering From Dementia

Euthanasia For Patients Suffering From DementiaWhile, Baroness Mary Warnock, a medical ethics expert has been advocating euthanasia for people suffering from dementia for several years now, Alzheimer’s charities term her remarks as ‘insensitive and ignorant’.  

Talking to BBC, Lady Warnock said that more research is required to establish whether people with Alzheimer’s and dementia are mentally competent to decide whether they preferred to die, than be a burden on their families and the National Health Service.

HPV Test for Developing Countries shows High Accuracy

A new rapid test for the human papillomavirus (HPV), for use in regions with scarce resources has been reported to be 90 % accurate as compared to current methods in use.

HPV is the primary cause of cervical cancer and the new vaccine has been developed by Qiagen NV in partnership with PATH, with funding from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
 

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