International health news
- Are we closer to understanding schizophrenia? – according to a new Harvard study, scientists are much closer to finding the cause of this mental disorder.
- HIV strains are becoming resistant to antiretroviral drug – 60 per cent of selected subjects in Africa during a 17-year research proved to be resistant to Tenofovir.
- Fish helps prevent Alzheimer’s disease – eating fish once a week could play an important role in protecting against several forms of dementia.
Health advice
- Poor sleeping patterns can lead to obesity – these 10 tips will help your children sleep better.
- Don’t let lack of movement cut your life short – sedentary life could be a big contributor to the development of type 2 diabetes.
Country health updates
- Brazil: not taking the Zika virus lightly – the Brazilian government has deployed soldiers to eradicate the virus-transmitting mosquitoes in homes and offices.
- UK: scientists get green light for embryo editing – it is the first country to ever consider and approve DNA-altering, although it will be illegal to implant said embryos into a woman.
- Africa: increasing rates of overweight and obesity in urbanised areas – 10 million children are now either overweight or obese in the African continent, doubling the number in the past 25 years.
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