News: April 2009
Regional asthma program rolled out nationally
A life saving asthma intervention program developed by Monash University for regional and rural Victoria will be launched nationally after the overwhelming success of the initiative.
Health ministers to accelerate efforts against drug-resistant TB
Health ministers from countries with the greatest burdens of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) have agreed to a series of actions to accelerate efforts to halt and reverse the global epidemic of the...
Need to address mental disorders in children
On World Autism Day, WHO has reaffirmed its commitment to provide technical assistance to Member States to deliver integrated health services to people with autism and other mental and developmenta...
Government of Canada Endorses World Autism Awareness Day
April 2 will be recognized as World Autism Awareness Day. Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) affect approximately one in 150 children in Canada. It is a complex and lifelong condition with a broad spe...
UNICEF responds in Chad as children escape conflict
UNICEF is assisting thousands of children who are fleeing the conflict in the neighboring Central African Republic (CAR). More than 3,000 new refugees have arrived in Chad, in addition to the 7,000...
New act brings changes to legal parenthood
UNICEF UK welcomes G20 announcement
National Effort to Tackle Eating Disorders
Face the Facts highlights tragedy of tobacco deaths
Oncologist David Hamilton says it’s a tragedy that 5000 New Zealanders die each year because of tobacco use. He hopes that the Face the Facts campaign will bring home to people the stark reality of...
How Hospitals Can Make Beds Available for Disaster Victims
Two new studies published in the American Medical Association’s (AMA) Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness journal suggest that sufficient hospital capacity during a disaster can be ach...
Campaign steps up to prevent child flu
Low price alcohol still No 1 problem, say NHS staff
A snapshot survey of doctors and nurses treating patients with alcohol related harm showed that many believe that public health campaigns are not effective and that action on sales of low priced al...
Mosquito warning in bushlands and rural NSW
Salmonella increase in NSW
Stealthy approach lowers health standards
Nursing profession focuses on health and wellbeing
As part of Southern Cross University’s (Australia) focus on health and wellbeing a new Academic Health Centre is being built at the Lismore campus. It will provide a venue for a range of clinical s...
Specialty 'speed dating' event takes AMA headquarters by storm
More than 70 medical students and physicians recently visited AMA headquarters in Chicago for a special event aimed at helping students choose a specialty.
THT and regional partners aim to roll out Play Zone nationally
After a successful pilot in London and Brighton, Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) is working with a range of regional HIV and sexual health organisations to launch Play Zone across England and Wales. P...
Food Fraud Advisory Unit launched
Government to re-introduce Alcopops Measure
AMA Supports Obama's Principles for Health Care Reform
The American Medical Association has sent a letter to President Obama offering physicians’ support for the administration’s eight principles for health care reform and outlining the association’s f...
Get pampered at the Body Shop in Brighton and raise funds for THT
On Sat 18th April 2009 the Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) is holding a fundraiser event in Brighton, Sussex (England). Shoppers are invited to make a donation in return for a hand massage or make over.
More women receiving fertility treatment
More women than ever are undergoing fertility treatment according to the latest UK national data published today on the new Human Fertility and Embryology Authority's (HFEA) website. The new websit...
Whooping cough risk for newborns
Air pollution health warning
Particle pollution is mainly caused by motor vehicles, wood burning heaters and industry. It can reach extremely high concentrations during bushfires and dust storms. Adam Capon, Senior Policy Anal...
Increases Child Safety with New Regulations for Corded Window Coverings
The Canadian government has announced new safety regulations for corded window coverings that will make these products safer for young children. The regulations came into effect following yesterday...
Canadian Government Works to Prevent Young People From Taking Illicit Drugs
The Canadian Government is supporting a project under the Drug Strategy Community Initiatives Fund that will strengthen drug prevention and health promotion strategies for youth in Kitchener, Ontar...
Veiled and dark-skinned people should have vitamin D levels checked
Dark-skinned and veiled infants, children and adults should be screened annually for vitamin D deficiency, and vitamin D supplementation should be provided to those at-risk in this population, a fi...
National Campaign Targets Illicit Drugs (Australia)
This campaign particularly targets young methamphetamine users by portraying in stark and confronting terms the real harms and risks associated with drugs like ice and ecstasy.
People diagnosed with HIV still refused entry to USA, warns THT
HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) is warning that people living with HIV remain banned from travelling to the USA unless they have specifically applied for a visa to do so....
AMA and MGMA Partner to Help Members with Medicare Enrollment
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Poverty, Inequality and Child Rights
Allergy advice helps businesses
Of about 400 food-related businesses interviewed, the vast majority were aware of and benefitting from the UK FSA's allergy guidance. This has also proved helpful to local authority food law enforc...
Malaria deaths decline by 66% in Zambia
Malaria deaths reported from health facilities in Zambia have declined by 66%. This result along with other supporting data indicates that Zambia has reached the 2010 Roll Back Malaria target of a ...
Malaria diagnostic tests differ in performance
Equality Bill ignores discrimination faced by job seekers with disabilities
A coalition of charities is calling for an amendment to the Equality Bill to reduce discrimination faced by job seekers conditions such as mental illness or HIV. In the USA and some European countr...
Canadian Government Working to Address Swine Flu
Canadian Minister of Health Leona Aglukkaq and Chief Public Health Officer Dr. David Butler-Jones have assured Canadians that the federal government is working closely with the provinces and territ...
Human Swine Flu Investigation
Human cases of swine flu influenza A (H1N1) virus infection have been identified in the United States. Investigations are ongoing to determine the source of the infection and whether additional peo...
Mexican Swine Influenza - Health Alert
Auckland Regional Public Health Service (New Zealand) is investigating an influenza-like illness affecting a group of 25 people from Rangitoto College, following the group’s return from a school tr...
Swine flu is not a food safety risk
UNICEF airlifts 50 tonnes of emergency supplies into Sri Lanka
Brains do break down
Help for people with chronic gut problems
Mexican Swine Influenza - Update
The New Zealand Ministry of Health has revealed that a second member of the Rangitoto school party that has recently returned from Mexico (a teacher) has been admitted to hospital with flu symptoms...
Mexican Swine influenza update, 28 April 09
A further three people in New Zealand have tested positive for Influenza A and are being treated as having Swine Flu. This brings the total number of people who are being regarded as confirmed or p...
Complementary and Integrative Medicine
The Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine, a collection of 43 top medical schools in North America, will host the 4th North American Research Conference on Complementary an...
Update To Provinces And Territories And International Partners Regarding Human Swine Influenza
Canadian Minister of Health Leona Aglukkaq and Chief Public Health Officer Dr. David Butler-Jones provided an update to Canadians on further actions that have been taken by the Government of Canada...
Vulnerable and frail to get substandard medical care in Australia
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Michigan Physicians Gain From New AMA and MSMS Collaboration
Government of Canada to provide laboratory testing support to Government of Mexico
Canada’s Minister of Health Leona Aglukkaq and Mexico’s Minister of Health Dr. Jóse Ángel Córdova today announced that the Government of Canada has accepted the Government of Mexico’s request to as...
Mexican Swine Influenza - Update
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Counterfeit medical products
WA Health steps up State influenza plans
NHS must recruit enough doctors and nurses to look after patients, says BMA
CQC reaction to Alberti and Colin-Thome reviews on Mid Staffordshire NHS foundation trust
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