WHO urges countries to share information over novel coronavirus

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged countries with possible cases of novel coronavirus to share information.

The move comes after Saudi Arabia said the development of diagnostic tests had been delayed by patent rights on the NCoV virus by commercial laboratories.
Posted by Unknown 5/25/2013

Vitamin C kills drug-resistant TB in lab tests

Vitamin C can kill multidrug-resistant TB in the lab, scientists have found.

The surprise discovery may point to a new way of tackling this increasingly hard-to-treat infection, the US study authors from Yeshiva University say in Nature Communications.
Posted by Unknown 5/22/2013

Sunshine vitamin 'may treat asthma'

The amount of time asthma patients spend soaking up the sun may have an impact on the illness, researchers have suggested.

A team at King's College London said low levels of vitamin D was linked to a worsening of asthma symptoms.
Posted by Unknown 5/20/2013

WHO Says Health Gap is Narrowing

The World Health Organization's annual statistics show progress is being made around the world in cutting child mortality - but it will fail to achieve its target of a two-thirds reduction by 2015.

The number of under-fives dying fell from 12 million in 1990 to less than seven million in 2011, the data shows.

But that will not be enough to reach the 2015 Millennium Development Goal.
Posted by Unknown 5/15/2013