Health

07/27/2015, 11:23 Time
Ruby BIRD

THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF EBOLA IN AFRICA

BRIEF SUMMARY OF CONSEQUENCES ON AFRICA

USPA NEWS - The Ebola virus has particularly hit Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone causing tremendous human hardship and hig...

07/27/2015, 06:18 Time
Ina von Ber

SAN DIEGO: WHERE STATE OF THE ART PATIENT CARE MEETS WORLD CLASS RESEARCH

RISE OF A GLOBAL HEALTHCARE EPICENTER

USPA NEWS -

In 2013, Southern California received $1.74 billion in NIH funding divided between four major academic in...

07/22/2015, 11:20 Time
Ruby BIRD & Yasmina BEDDOU (Journalists/Directors)

PERMACULTURE: WE CANNOT IMAGINE WHAT WE CAN CREATE TOGETHER

WHEN WE HAVE ENOUGH, WE HAVE TO STOP

USPA NEWS - Anything in nature has more than one fonction, we design in that principal, what we are going to design we want...

07/09/2015, 02:45 Time
USPA News

June was hottest since 1933 for contiguous United States - NOAA

USPA News - The month of June in the contiguous United States was the warmest since 1933, and the second-warmest since reco...

07/03/2015, 17:44 Time
Jose A. Martin

Spain was in 2014 the fourth state of the EU in authorization of new medicines

Authorized 1,224 human medicines

USPA NEWS - Spain was last year's fourth EU country in number of new approved drugs, a total of 1,224 products for human us...

07/02/2015, 20:04 Time
Daren Frankish - European Parliament

How technology can help to empower patients

Health literacy

USPA NEWS - Patients are becoming more independent as they can monitor their own health using mobile applications, not only...

07/01/2015, 17:34 Time
Jose A. Martin

Spanish Government starts selling via the Internet of medicines for human use

Non-prescription

USPA NEWS - The Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS) has developed the web www.distafarma.aemps.es allo...

05/28/2015, 17:00 Time
Jose A. Martin

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, Princess of Asturias Award

For Technical and Scientific Research

USPA NEWS - The biochemists Emmanuelle Charpentier (France) and Jennifer Doudna (USA) have been bestowed with the 2015 Prin...

05/26/2015, 16:17 Time
Jose A. Martin

EU will help children to learn about healthy eating

They are eating fewer fruit

USPA NEWS - Children are eating fewer and fewer fruit, vegetables and dairy products in Europe, but a new proposal could he...

04/29/2015, 20:53 Time
David Franciamore

SIX OUT OF TEN OVERCOME CANCER IN ITALY

CANCER RELATED DEATHS DOWN BY 20%

USPA NEWS - Six out of 10 cancer patients in Italy overcome the disease, but care across the country's 20 regions is incons...

04/25/2015, 10:51 Time
Jose A. Martin

Commission authorises 17 GMOs for food/feed uses and 2 GM carnations

Authorisations are valid for 10 years

USPA NEWS - The Commission adopted 10 new authorisations for Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) for food/feed use, 7 ren...

04/25/2015, 10:40 Time
Jose A. Martin

Malaria: a persistent health threat that we must face head on

Malaria deaths have fallen by 25%

USPA NEWS - Neven Mimica, EU Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development; Vytenis Andriukaitis, EU Commissio...

04/24/2015, 09:33 Time
Jose A. Martin

MEPs to call for stronger EU alcohol strategy

3.3 million premature deaths worldwide

USPA NEWS - Requiring alcoholic drink producers to state calorie content and ingredients on the label should be considered ...

04/22/2015, 17:03 Time
Jose A. Martin

€150,000 for a kidney: the lethal trade in illegal organs

An international problem

USPA NEWS - The demand for organs far outstrips what is available, leading to illegal trafficking in organs all over the wo...

03/31/2015, 11:46 Time
Jose A. Martin

Vall d´Hebron Hospital has successfully performed a new face transplant

In Barcelona

USPA NEWS - A multidisciplinary team of Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, in Barcelona, led by Dr. Joan-Pere Barret, head ...

03/30/2015, 15:00 Time
David Franciamore

FIRST TRANSPLANT WITH NON-BEATING HEART IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE

60-YEAR-OLD PATIENT RECOVERING WELL

USPA NEWS - The first heart transplant using a non-beating heart was successfully carried out in Europe, the British press ...

03/26/2015, 08:42 Time
Jose A. Martin

Spain signed the International Convention on combating trafficking in organs

Of the Council of Europe

USPA NEWS - Spain has signed the International Convention on combating trafficking in organs of the Council of Europe, the ...

03/21/2015, 09:15 Time
David Franciamore

UNITED NATIONS-IN 15 YEARS EARTH WILL BE FACING SERIOUS WATER SHORTAGE

THE CURRENT USAGE UNSUSTAINABLE

USPA NEWS - The world's water reserves are diminishing rapidly and if trends continue, within 15 years the planet will face...

03/12/2015, 17:37 Time
Jose A. Martin

Kidney transplants do earn more than 7,000 centuries of life

World Kidney Day 2015

USPA NEWS - Experts estimate that kidney disease affects about 10% of citizens. Of these, a percentage can lead to kidney f...

03/06/2015, 08:46 Time
David Franciamore

ITALY-BREAKTHROUGH COULD LEAD TO NEW AIDS DRUG

STUDY IN TRIESTE FINDS HIVs HIDING PLACE

USPA NEWS - A group of researchers at Trieste's International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) has...

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