Tag: World Health Organization

Weight loss vaccines Ozempic and Wegovy – types of semaglutide drugs – reduce appetite and prevent food cravings

DR MAX PEMBERTON: It’s not cheating to use weight loss jabs – they literally save lives

By Jacky
Mr James was seriously injured in an electrical accident, which later caused him to lose an eye.

Is the cure for blindness here? As a US veteran receives the world’s first eye transplant, could this scientific breakthrough be the catalyst for a new future?

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Researchers rigged monitoring equipment in more than 280 homes ¿ 40 in the UK ¿ as well as France , Spain , Italy , the Netherlands , Romania and Slovakia. They found that in normal cooking conditions, more than half of homes (55 per cent) the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended maximum level of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) was breached in homes using gas hobs and gas ovens around once a week

Gas cookers ‘should come with a health warning’: Report reveals the appliances pump out ‘unsafe’ levels of pollution – as experts call for Brits to move to electric hobs and ovens

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The map above shows the spread of dengue in the year 2020 around the world. More cases are now appearing in the US.

WHO warns painful mosquito-borne disease will become a major threat this decade: ‘We need to really prepare’

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Results from the Our Future Health project that demonstrate high cholesterol levels in the population from a sample of 227,592 volunteers. Source: Our future health

Over a QUARTER of 20-somethings have high cholesterol: Massive study lays bare true scale of UK’s ill health as ‘shocked’ experts blame society’s reliance on takeaways and processed food

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The Swedish Association of Pediatricians also wants to crack down on screen time for children aged two to five, suggesting a limit of just 60 minutes a day. Experts have long sounded the alarm about the influence of screen time on children's development. The new recommendations are designed to help national policy makers and also include advice on the role parents play in guiding responsible media use.

Kids under two shouldn’t be allowed any screen time, say Swedish doctors

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Londonderry-based GP Dr Mary McCloskey has been suspended for six months over a series of comments

GP with ‘unblemished’ 40-year career gets 6-month suspension for ‘vitriolic’ anti-vaxx comments – including one that kids were being ‘lined up’ to get a Covid vaccine that could ‘kill them’

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Dr Mennah Elwan in her British Medical Association kit during NHS industrial action organised by the union

Doctors should NOT be punished for airing pro-Palestinian views, British Islamic Medical Association says

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Zaina and her family had to leave Gaza City and head south to an area that Israel assured them would be safe

rewrite this title ‘One day, I hope the world knows what we’re going through’: Palestinian girl, 13, trapped in Gaza describes the horror of living amid constant bombing and insists ‘nowhere is safe’

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Dr Mennah Elwan in her British Medical Association kit during NHS industrial action organised by the union

Hamas-excusing medic who mocked festivalgoers fleeing Hamas gunmen ‘is among 2,000 medics’ who want officials to tear down Israel flag because of the country’s ‘genocide’ of Palestinians

By Merry
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