China has begun shutting down lead smelters for environmental checks after hundreds of children tested for high levels of lead in two separate cases this month.
China has begun shutting down lead smelters for environmental checks after hundreds of children tested for high levels of lead in two separate cases this month.
Swine flu could infect as much as half of the US population this fall and winter and cause up to 90,000 deaths, President Barack Obama’s science advisors warned on Monday.
Pregnant women need to take all possible steps to avoid the new A(H1N1) flu, commonly known as swine flu, warns a group of gynaecologists in Germany.
A Dutch obesity clinic recently launched a unique programme for people who are morbidly obese. People with a Body Mass Index (BMI) higher than 30 can now participate in a five-year-programme to lose weight.
The skies might be clear, but for some people, the alarm bells are already ringing. People suffering from meteorosensitivity are susceptible to changes in the weather, suffering from headaches, dizziness or grogginess.
The global economic malaise could result in a generation of flabbier people who try to assuage their worries by over-eating, according to a team of German researchers.
NEW YORK – A lack of sunshine may cloud memory and other thinking or ‘cognitive’ functions in some people with depression, a new study hints.
Governments bracing for a second, possibly more lethal, wave of swine flu are all grappling with the same unforgiving dilemma: with not enough vaccine to go around, who is going to get jabbed first?
Early indications are a new swine flu vaccine is safe and is on track to be made available to the public by mid-October, US health officials said Friday.
BEIJING — The global spread of swine flu will endanger more lives as it speeds up in coming months and governments must boost preparations for a swift response, the World Health Organization said Friday.