Salt Awareness Week 2019: "It´s time to take ACTION on salt!"
Consuming less than 5 g/ salt (< 2 g of sodium) per adult per day, from all sources, is the WHO recommended intake and the target that countries are to aim for with their dietary salt/sodium reduction initiatives. But no country is on track to achieve.... read more
'Once lost, hearing doesn't come back': WHO warns on World Hearing Day
Worldwide, some 466 million people have disabling hearing loss, and the WHO estimates that by 2050 that figure will almost double, affecting one in 10 people. The cost of unaddressed hearing loss is believed to be around .... read more
PAHO calls for Latin American countries to prepare for possible dengue outbreaks
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has called for countries in the Region of the Americas to prepare for a timely response to possible outbreaks of dengue. The disease is endemic in the Region and, since its reintroduction in the 1980s,... read more
Heart attack patients taken directly to heart centres have better long-term survival
Heart attack patients taken directly to heart centres for lifesaving treatment have better long-term survival than those transferred from another hospital, reports a large observational study presented March 3, 2019 at Acute Cardiovascular Care 20191 a European Society of Cardiology (ESC) congress... read more
Data sharing uncovers five new risk genes for Alzheimer's disease
Analysis of genetic data from more than 94,000 individuals has revealed five new risk genes for Alzheimer's disease, and confirmed 20 known others. An international team of researchers also reports for the first time that mutations in genes specific to tau, a hallmark protein of .... read more
Sleep deprivation may be a risk factor for weaning-failure in patients on ventilators
Attempts to wean intubated, critically ill patients off mechanical ventilators were less successful when the patients exhibited atypical sleep or pathological wakefulness,... read more
Sleeve gastrectomy safer option in obese Crohn's disease patients
In patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), particularly Crohn's disease (CD), sleeve gastrectomy may be the safer surgery, suggests a study reported online Feb. 21, 2019 in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.... read more