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Canada and U.S adopt the Global Solar Ultraviolet (UV) Index

The World Health Organization (WHO) welcomes the action by more and more Member States to adopt the Global Solar Ultraviolet (UV) Index. In recent days, Canada and the United States of America have begun using the Index (UVI), joining several other WHO Member States, to ensure that the UVI is used on a regular basis to educate people about the dangers of overexposure to UV radiation.

27 May 2004

Australian cricketers have had their muscles scanned by researchers to prevent muscle deterioration and injury

The 24-man-squad from Cricket Australia’s Centre of Excellence in Brisbane, were examined by University of Queensland’s senior physiotherapy lecturer Dr Julie Hides.

27 May 2004

Texas Department of Health has completed testing for lead in Mexican candy

Texas Department of Health has completed testing of samples of candies from Mexico that contain powdered chili or tamarind as an ingredient or coating.

27 May 2004

Inadequate hospital staffing affecting death rates in the birthing unit

Inadequate staffing levels and ineffective deployment of midwives are key to many adverse events and near misses in birthing units, according to an international researcher in midwifery.

27 May 2004

Australian university offers free Chinese medicine treatment

With winter fast approaching, RMIT University is helping people to beat coughs, colds and other winter nasties with a free introductory offer for Chinese medicine treatment.

27 May 2004

Olympic organizers and world pharmaceutical representatives agree on working hours

Representatives of the pharmaceutical world (chemists, pharmaceutical wholesale stores and industries) and ATHENS 2004 agreed today on the working hours and pharmaceutical provisioning times at Games-time, confirming the partial agreements reached after the dialogue started in November 2003.

27 May 2004

Discovery may help to define the limits for life on Earth, as well as elsewhere in the universe

The discovery of millions of micro-microbes surviving in a 120,000-year-old ice sample taken from 3,000 meters below the surface of the Greenland glacier was announced by Penn State scientists today (May 26) at the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in New Orleans, La. The discovery may help to define the limits for life on Earth, as well as elsewhere in the universe, such as on cold planets like Mars.

27 May 2004

17,000 immigrant children and parents in Washington state have lost public health coverage

Since the elimination of a public medical assistance program in 2002, more than 17,000 immigrant children and parents in Washington state have lost public health coverage as of April 2004.

27 May 2004

UK House of Commons Health Committee publishes its long-awaited Report on obesity

Obesity has grown by almost 400% in the last 25 years such that three-quarters of the adult population are now overweight or obese (around 22% are now obese). England has witnessed the fastest growth in obesity in Europe and childhood obesity has tripled in twenty years.

27 May 2004

HEABC reaches agreement with Nurses

The Health Employers Association of BC (HEABC) has reached a Framework Agreement with the Nurses Bargaining Association (NBA) under which both parties will approach negotiations to renew a Collective Agreement and discuss health policy issues related to the nursing workforce.

27 May 2004

BUPA calls for better measurement of healthcare outcomes

Dr Andrew Vallance-Owen, BUPA’s medical director will call for improved measurement of the success of surgery across UK healthcare when he speaks at the Health Service Journal (HSJ) conference later today.

27 May 2004

Concerns over obesity will be addressed in the UK government's Public Health White Paper

Concerns over obesity will be addressed in the government's Public Health White Paper, Health Secretary John Reid said today following the publication of a Parliamentary report.

27 May 2004

Outlaw teen sexuality!

That’s right ban it, make it illegal, against the law, verboten. May is teen pregnancy prevention month. Let’s get real about the problem that is confronting us. The United States now has more teen pregnancies than any other country in the industrialized world. Over 1 million teenagers get pregnant every year and 78% of teen pregnancies are unintended.

26 May 2004

Miscellaneous News

Canada and U.S adopt the Global Solar Ultraviolet (UV) Index

Australian cricketers have had their muscles scanned by researchers to prevent muscle deterioration and injury

Texas Department of Health has completed testing for lead in Mexican candy

Inadequate hospital staffing affecting death rates in the birthing unit

Australian university offers free Chinese medicine treatment

Olympic organizers and world pharmaceutical representatives agree on working hours

Discovery may help to define the limits for life on Earth, as well as elsewhere in the universe

17,000 immigrant children and parents in Washington state have lost public health coverage

UK House of Commons Health Committee publishes its long-awaited Report on obesity

HEABC reaches agreement with Nurses

BUPA calls for better measurement of healthcare outcomes

Concerns over obesity will be addressed in the UK government's Public Health White Paper

Outlaw teen sexuality!

Future astronauts will have to do a lot more than simply pedalling an exercise bike to stay healthy in space

Ancient DNA answers questions from the past

Nelson Mandela backs call for equality amongst disabled people

Atkins announces new low-carbohydrate frozen pizzas

Level of smoking by undergraduate female nursing students is higher than that of the general population

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Leading American and Russian endocrinologists hold joint meeting

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