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The World Health Organization (WHO) continues to closely monitor the evolving Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The current epidemic trend in Sierra Leone and Liberia remains serious, with high numbers of new cases and deaths being reported. Between 8 – 12 July 2014, 79 new cases, and 65 deaths were reported from Liberia and Sierra. In Liberia, 30...

On 10 July 2014, the National IHR Focal Point for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) reported 2 additional laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).



Details of the cases reported are as follows:


A 67-year-old man from Abu Dhabi, UAE who became ill on 17 June and was admitted to a hospital on the same day. On 2 July 2014, the...

11 July 2014 | New York – UN Member States have reaffirmed their commitment to take bold measures to reduce the avoidable burden of noncommunicable diseases. These ailments, including heart disease and stroke, cancer, diabetes and lung disease kill 38 million people every year, many of them before they reach the age of 70. Most of these largely preventable deaths occur in developing...

The World Health Organization (WHO) continues to monitor the evolution of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. In Guinea, the current epidemic trend shows low activity of community viral transmission, with only 1 confirmed EVD case reported in the last 7 days. This trend is being closely monitored, particularly in communities that had resistance to...

10 July 2014, Jerusalem –  The recent escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip raises concern about the ability of the Government and the Ministry of Health of the occupied Palestinian territory to cope with the increased burden of medical emergencies on the health system, given the high levels of shortages of medicines, medical disposables and hospital fuel supplies, and rising health...

Corticosteroid drugs that are given by inhalers to children with asthma may suppress their growth, evidence suggests. Two new systematic reviews published in The Cochrane Library focus on the effects of inhaled corticosteroid drugs (ICS) on growth rates. The authors found children’s growth slowed in the first year of treatment, although the effects were minimised by using lower...

En 2013 en France, on estimait à 346 000 le nombre de femmes porteuses d’implants mammaires. On évalue à environ 30 000 celles qui ont porté une prothèse fabriquée par la société PIP (dont une partie a été retirée depuis). Au-delà du caractère défectueux de ces prothèses mammaires, seule une vaste étude épidémiologique permettrait de documenter leurs effets...

Les défibrillateurs automatisés externes (DAE) sont des dispositifs médicaux qui peuvent permettre la réanimation de victimes d’arrêt cardiaque. Ils sont utilisables depuis 2007 par tout citoyen et sont largement diffusés dans les lieux fréquentés par le grand public. Ces appareils peuvent toutefois présenter des risques de dysfonctionnement si un certain nombre de précautions...

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