The reform of urban healthcare, which began in the capital and is envisaged in the draft Strategy for the Development of Kyiv until 2025, will increase the average life expectancy of the resident of Kiev for 7 years.
The number of victims of the medical experiment, during which Guatemalans deliberately infect syphilis and gonorrhea, can reach 2.5 thousand people. To such conclusion, as informs BBC, the Guatemalan medical association has come
Zimbabwe's parliamentarians ignored the vice prime minister's call for circumcision to prevent HIV infection. According to the correspondent of the BBC News, 7 out of 8 Zimbabwean male deputies interviewed rejected this method of fighting HIV.
Demographers from around the world are arguing about exactly where the historic event of the birth of a seven-billion citizen of the Earth will take place. By all estimates, this will happen not on the European continent
American epidemiologists have found that less than half of adolescent girls underwent recommended vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) virus, which causes cervical cancer.
Children in low- and middle-income countries should receive nutritional supplements with vitamin A, which will significantly reduce morbidity and mortality.
Religious beliefs can change a person's behavior in a way that evolutionary theory can not predict, especially when it comes to fighting the disease, says David Hughes, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Pennsylvania (USA).
It has long been known that smoking leads to a wide variety of cancers. The new data show that this habit causes about half of the cases of bladder cancer in both men and women. And this is more than previously thought.
In the 1970s, people were smoking quite differently from what they are now. "In a few years, we switched from 3% or 4% of THC to 10%, and sometimes even cannabis occurs with 30% of this substance," the expert said.
