Health

Plastic pollution A mangrove area is located in Panama Bay, Panama City, Panama 6 December 2024. – Reuters Plastic pollution is an increasing global health crisis that causes widespread illness and death, with annual economic losses that exceed $ 1.5 trillion, according to a new report published in The Lancet. The new evaluation of the…

A female mosquito is seen on the forearm of a health technician in a laboratory of the Entomology Department of the Ministry of Health in the city of Guatemala. – Reuters/File Authorities in China implement measures that are comparable to those implemented during the COVID-19 Pandemie, because more than 7,000 cases of the Chikungunya mosquito…

Women displaced because of the floods waiting to receive food -hand -outs while they resort in a camp, in Sehwan, September 30, 2022. -Reuters By 2030, the Gates Foundation will spend $ 2.5 billion on women’s health, said it on Monday, in which founder Bill Gates said that the area, including pre -eclampsia for menopause,…

A lady health worker is drops of the anti-polio vaccine to a boy. – App/File Islamabad: A five-month-old baby from Lakki Marwat in South Khyber Pakhtunkhwa tested positively on Polio on Tuesday, which confirmed the total cases of the country at 19 to 19, confirmed the regional reference laboratory for polio extremization at the National…

Two school students pose with their mobile phones with social media applications in Melbourne, Australia, November 28, 2024. – Reuters Spending long hours for screens, either on telephones or TVs, can increase the risk of heart and metabolic diseases in children, a Danish study revealed on Wednesday. The study followed the screen consumption and sleeping…

(From the left) This combination of images shows cooked, baked, pureed and fried forms of potatoes. – Unsplash/Pexels A groundbreaking study led by an expert in the field of Health Health of Harvard University has demonstrated a relevant association between regular consumption of chips and an increased risk of type 2 diabetes. The research, conducted…

A girl receives polio-vaccine drops, during an anti-polio campaign, in Karachi, July 20, 2020.-Reuterers Islamabad: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has reported that although high -quality vaccination campaigns have deposed positive environmental detections of the poliovirus, the virus is still circulating in some regions of Pakistan. According to July data from the country’s environmental…

A cancer patient receives a tracer injection. – Reuters/File Improvements in the survival rates of cancer in England and Wales have been considerably delayed since 2010, according to a large study released on Wednesday, which leads to calls to an urgent national cancer plan. The study, conducted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical…

Beer is at the bar in McSorley’s Old Ale House in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA, 3 May 2021. – Reuters Washington: a small majority of Americans now believe that even moderate alcohol consumption is harmful to health, which is a reflection of the growing concern about public health and a continuous decrease…

This representative image shows stray dogs. – AFP Karachi: Six people have lost their lives in rabies in Karachi between May and August after being bitten by dogs, hospital officials confirmed on Friday. Medical authorities said three of the victims were given treatment in the Jinnah Hospital, while the other were under care in the…

A representative image with a health worker who manages polio -vaccine drops to a child. – AFP/File The regional reference laboratory for polio exchanging at the National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad, has confirmed two new cases of poliovirus in South Khyber Pakhtunkhwa -a district tank and another in district North Waziristan. Things include a…

A monitor shows a three-dimensional picture of a human heart in the Klaus-Tschira Institute for Integrative Computational Cardiology, Department of the Heidelberg University Hospital (Universitaetsklinikum Heidelberg), in Heidelberg, Germany, Germany, 14 August 2018.-Reuters A decades of old pill remains useful for patients with a heart attack, even with modern treatments that can prevent permanent damage…