The Third Biggest killer in 2030

Chronic obstructive lung disease kills one person every 10 seconds globally, according to international studies.
This year, people are being encouraged to test themselves for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, COPD, the lung killer that affects some 210 million people worldwide.
Today, to mark World COPD Day, a series of public seminars on the disease will be organised at Mater Dei Hospital.
COPD can be diagnosed by this simple test, called spirometry, which measures how much air a person can inhale and exhale.
It is projected that in 2030, COPD will be the third biggest killer worldwide. COPD is the overall term used to describe a variety of illnesses, including chronic bronchitis, emphysema and chronic obstructive airway disease. The lung damage is permanent, with patients finding it increasingly tough to breathe. The condition is closely linked to smoking in most cases.
Symptoms include early morning cough, wheezing, chest tightness and difficulty to breathe.

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The Great Night for Keeping Family Health and Fitness

                                
RAHWAY — A lot number of Students and their families memmber of Grover Cleveland School in Rahway recently participated in Family Fun and Health Fitness Night.All the  Families member were involved in different types of exercise, including karate, yoga, bootcamp and salsa dancing etc.  The importance of eating and being healthy was stressed and participants enjoyed a healthy taste testing of turkey chili and a fruit smoothie. The Rahway Y.M.C.A, the Rutgers Extension Program and Grover Cleveland’s faculty helped to make this night possible.

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Modren polio vaccine is so effective then old vaccine

 A new vaccine against the polio virus has helped reduce the                  number of cases by more than 90%.

Research published online in the journal The Lancet, shows that the new vaccine is significantly better at protecting children against polio than the current popular vaccine.

It has already been used in Afghanistan, India and Nigeria.
The scientists behind the work believe this new vaccine could help to finally eradicate the disease.
Disease elimination
Mass vaccination campaigns have led to the number of polio endemic countries falling from 125 in 1988 to just four in 2005.

This meant an actual drop in cases from 350,000 to just 1,606 in 2009.

Polio is caused by one of 3 versions of the polivirus: type1, type 2 or type 3.
Until recently, vaccines targetting either all three forms of the virus or just one of them were used to immunisie children.
The last case of type 2 polio was recorded in India in 1999, so it's the other two types that need to be targeted to finally eliminate the disease.

The authors of the study carried out a trial in India comparing the commonly used old vaccines to the new one, which is taken orally.

In total, 830 newborn babies received either the new vaccine or one of the old vaccines in two doses - one at birth and one 30 days later.

Blood samples were taken before vaccination and after the first and second doses to measure seroconversion - the rise in antibodies produced by the immune system against polio.

It appears that the new vaccine is about 30% more effective in protecting against polio than the most commonly used vaccine to date.

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Affect of Smoking on the Body vedio

This video explain how smoking affecting on the body

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Smoking Could Be a Depression

Booster for TeensPosted by editor in Friday, September 3rd 2010    

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Smoking has always been claimed to be dangerous for the health, a new research has shown its diverse affects on the mental health of teens.

It has been reported that smoking increases depressive symptoms in teens especially in those who thinks that their smoking habit will change their mood.

The study was carried on a group of 662 Canadian students who were studying between grades 7 to 11. The students were provided with almost 20 questionnaires regarding their habit of smoking.

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Healthcare policy of BMC in City

The city can soon expect better-equipped primary healthcare facilities. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to strengthen the primary health care services of the city and is in the process of creating a vision document to narrow down on specific health care needs, before the
city budget allocation next year.
“The outbreak of malaria in the city made us introspect and we realised the need to strengthen our primary health care system, So far, our approach was focused on tertiary health care,” said Manisha Mhaiskar, additional municipal commissioner who was addressing the workshop on the vision for the city’s health care needs on Saturday, organised by the civic department of health in association with the Observer Research Foundation. The first phase of this plan will include grading and make over of 163 civic-run dispensaries. In the next stage, 23 post partum centres and 182 health posts will be strengthen in the similar manner.
Dispensaries will be graded on the basis of their performance and physical infrastructure. The infrastructure of dispensaries will be graded under four categories - A- minimal work required, B –minor repairs, C- major repairs, D- demolish.

“Areas where these dispensaries are actually needed and where they are unnecessary will be traced,” Mhaiskar said.

The civic body will simultaneously work on linking the peripheral hospitals with its three super specialty hospitals – KEM, LTMG and Nair. “The BMC’s 16 peripheral hospitals don’t attract rich clinical talent. They are facing crunch of surgeons and we intend to take up a pilot project in which surgeons would go to these hospitals to handle critical cases,” said Mhaiskar.

November 4 onwards, BMC will start the pilot project of linking three of its main hospitals (i.e KEM, LTMG and Nair) with three peripheral hospitals (i.e Shatabdi hospital in Gowandi, Veer Savarkar hospital and Kasturba hospital respectively). The civic body is also looking at strengthening the specific specialty healthcare needs of dialysis centres and cancer-care facilities.
“There is a huge gap in the city when it comes to facilities which cater to dialysis and cancer patients. We had floated a tender on a charitable model for dialysis centres. Now we are in the process of floating a tender for a business model for these centres,” said Mhaiskar.

“Corporate involvement in terms of corporate-social responsibility is also on the cards for facelift programme of the dispensaries,” said Mhaiskar.
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Health: Cholera Death "near 300"

Health officials in Haiti say nearly 300 people are now known to have died in a cholera outbreak in the country.
Although the number of new cases has slowed, hundreds more infections were reported on Tuesday.
The UN and aid agencies are boosting prevention efforts in and around the capital, Port-au-Prince, with a public information campaign on hygiene.

Experts say that after a long absence from Haiti, cholera could now "settle" and become endemic
The UN said 25 more people had died of the disease on Tuesday, bringing the total to 284. The number of reported cases now stands at 3,612.

Health experts say they expect the outbreak will soon lessen but the disease will eventually join malaria and tuberculosis in becoming endemic in Haiti.

"It's normal that we should expect a settlement of cholera in Haiti nationwide over the coming months," Dr Michel Thieren of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) told Reuters news agency.
Dr Thieren said the next major development would be if cases appeared in the capital.
Federica Nogarotto, of charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), said the slowdown in cases was positive.
"It suggests that people are taking precautions and that there is a greater understanding in the community of the need to maintain strict hygiene and to seek medical assistance at the first sign of symptoms," she told AFP.

The spread of the disease has alarmed locals in the region, who have reportedly vented their fears on the doctors who have arrived to help them.

The Associated Press reported that a treatment centre set up by the Spanish branch of MSF in Saint-Marc had been attacked by angry stone-throwing youths, who said they were afraid that the facility would bring more cases of the disease to their town

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