The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and UNICEF have today handed over 30 vehicles to the Afar and Somali Regional Health Bureaus for the provision of mobile health and nutrition services to children. The Somali Region received 19 vehicles and the remaining 11 went to Afar. The vehicles will be used by Mobile Health and Nutrition Teams in ...

The Ontario government’s transformation of the health-care system will not include two-tier care, private hospitals or making patients pay for more services out of pocket, the health minister said Friday. Christine Elliott did a round of interviews to clarify the Progressive Conservative government’s position a day after she repeatedly refused to rule out further health system privatization at a hastily ...

A new Swedish study shows that what grandfather ate in his youth impacts mortality two generations later. If grandpa had access to an abundance of food in the years immediately before puberty, his grandsons were found to have an increased risk of cancer. This connection existed only along the male lineage. The researchers’ results are similar to the previous, smaller ...

In a recent study, researchers have compared the effects of a plant-based meal with those of a meal that includes animal-derived products on a person’s health. The study concludes that vegan meals may help a person stay healthy and manage weight gain. In the United States, approximately 93.3 millionpeople live with obesity, and over 100 millionhave diabetes or prediabetes. A key factor in the development ...

Last week The Star newspaper in its front page ran an article that a 15 year old Grade 10 pupil from Sunward Park High School in Boksburg, Ekurhuleni experienced victimisation and discrimination at school as a result of her wearing traditional African beads at school after she had undergone training in 2018 as a traditional healer. On her return this ...

GENEVA —  New data from 22 high- and low-income countries show antibiotic resistance to a number of serious bacterial infections is growing at an alarming rate. The World Health Organization surveyed one-half million people with suspected bacterial infections between March 2016 and July 2017. The survey, the first of its kind, is vital in improving and understanding the extent of antimicrobial resistance ...

Strength training is truly for everyone. I’m talking athletes, grandmas, librarians, yoga buffs, engineers…you name it. Unfortunately, too many women don’t bother to lift weights unless they’re playing a sport or chasing a fitness goal. And that’s a shame, because even if you’re not looking to build bigger muscles or dominate the playing field, there are still plenty of great health-related reasons to ...

Julia Louis-Dreyfus announced on Thursday that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. In her announcement, the comedian urged her supporters to “make universal health care a reality.” The tweet by Louis-Dreyfus comes days after the failure of the latest Republican health-care plan. Actress and comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus made an unexpected entrance into America’s health-care debate Thursday, announcing that she ...

From the inescapable cologne on a fellow train passenger to the diffuser sticks in our bathrooms and bedrooms, fragrances are all around us. They’re used to make us more attractive, to set a certain mood, and to mask natural odours – and they could be making us sick, according to a new book. As many as one in three people experience symptoms ...

29 SEPTEMBER 2017 | GENEVA – Periodic deworming programmes with a single-tablet treatment can drastically reduce the suffering of those infected with parasitic intestinal worms and protect the 1.5 billion people currently estimated to be at risk. Four main species of intestinal worms (also known as soil-transmitted helminths) affect almost a quarter of the world’s poorest and mostly marginalized people. They ...