Health

CARACAS, May 12 (Xinhua): U.S. sanctions against the state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) have caused the suspension of health programs and affected patients in vulnerable situations, according to executive secretary of Venezuela's National Council of Human Rights.

In an interview with Xinhua, Larry Devoe, who is also the state agent for the International Human Rights System, said that the health programs, supported by PDVSA in conjunction with institutions in Italy and Argentina, have been blocked by the sanction measures taken by the U.S. government.

MOSCOW, May 12. /TASS/: Significance of the nursing care is recognized all over the world and a skillful nurse means a half of success in the patient’s recovery, department head of the Sechenov Medical University Natalia Kasimovskaya told TASS on Sunday, when the International Nurses Day is celebrated.

UNITED NATIONS, May 10 (APP): Top executives from across the United Nations system have called for more action on part of member states to mitigate the existential threat posed by climate change, saying doing so was a “moral, ethical and economic imperative”.

KANPUR: Patients were availing the benefit of free medical tests at Dufferin & Ursula Horsman Memorial hospitals in the city. Two different pathology centers were making available all those various types of tests free of cost to the patients. As there was a government’s contract with the private laboratory which was done three years ago, the patients did not realize the load of costs usually faced by them.

WASHINGTON, May 9 (Xinhua): Scientists at a U.S. research institute have developed an HIV vaccine delivery strategy that enhanced the protective immune response in a preclinical model.

The study published on Thursday in the journal Cell showed that delivering HIV vaccine in small doses over multiple days produced stronger immune response than administering it all at once.

HIV is a crafty opponent with decoy sites on its outer protein shell to confuse the immune system and nullify the vaccines.

BEIJING, May 10 (Xinhua): An international medical forum will be held from May 26 to 29 in the port city of Fangchenggang in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to promote medical cooperation between member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), according to a press conference held in Beijing Friday.

CHICAGO, May 8 (Xinhua): Death rates due to heart failure are increasing, and this increase is most prominent among younger adults under 65, considered premature death, said a study from Northwestern Medicine.

The study used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research data, which includes the underlying and contributing cause of death from all death certificates for 47.728 million individuals in the United States from 1999 to 2017.

GUANGZHOU, May 8 (Xinhua): Premarital and pre-pregnancy prevention, antenatal prevention as well as early diagnosis and treatment are needed in fighting thalassemia, as the disease is preventable despite its difficulty to treat, health authorities said Wednesday.

Thalassemia are inherited blood disorders characterized by abnormal hemoglobin production. Symptoms can vary from none to severe; often there is mild to severe anemia or low red blood cells.

8 May 2019; DW: The World Health Organization has said more than 34,000 people across Europe caught measles in the first two months of 2019. Just this week, Germany proposed a fine for parents who don't vaccinate their children.

The World Health Organization on Tuesday said there had been a sharp rise in the number of measles cases across Europe in January and February of this this year, with more than 34,000 people catching the disease.

Kanpur: One female patient admitted at the Hallet Hospital' s emergency Ward had to face unexpected trouble when she was not allowed to enter the Ward after returning from the doctor-prescribed test at the Cardiology. 

Admitted on bed no 3 of the Emergency Ward, Maya Devi was getting treatment under Dr A Kumar.