Month: March 2012

London (Reuters) – deaths related to tobacco have almost tripled in the last decade and the big tobacco companies are obstructing efforts public that could save millions of them, said on Wednesday a report led by the World Lung Foundation ( WLF). In the report, which commemorates the tenth anniversary of its first tobacco Atlas, the WLF and the American society of cancer said that if current trends continue, one billion people die this century because of the consumption of tobacco, exposure to it – one person every six seconds. Tobacco has killed 50 million people in the last 10 years, and is responsible for more than 15 per cent of all deaths of men and 7 percent of women, he found the report of the new tobacco Atlas. (www.tobaccoatlas.org) in China, tobacco is already the leading cause of death – with 1.2 million deaths per year – and it is expected that this figure be increased to 3.5 million a year by 2030, said the report. Data from China is part of a broader shift: smoking levels descend in developed countries but grow in poor regions, said Michael Eriksen, one of the authors of the report and director of the Institute of public health, State University of Georgia, United States. “if we do not act, projections of future are even worse.” “And the number of deaths caused by...

Geneva, 21 mar ( EFE).- the lack of a diagnosis in the population of lower age is the main problem to prevent tuberculosis, the World Organization of the health ( who) reported today. Each year, at least half a million children in the world they become infected with tuberculosis and 70,000 of them die, as reported today the who, who wants to draw attention to a disease that can prevent and cure easily and without high costs. The next Saturday, March 24, celebrates World Day against Tuberculosis and who has focused his commemoration this year on minors, victims most often family or medical negligence by lack of diagnosis. “Symptoms in children are not so obvious as in adults, sometimes not even they cough, just stop playing, are more calm, aletargados, and entails that in the majority of cases TB is not diagnosed,” he said at press Malgosia Grzemska, Coordinator of the Department “Stop a la Tuberculosis” of the who. This lack of diagnosis can cause the disease develops in its strongest forms and could cause paralysis, different types of disabilities and even death. The health agency of Nations United believes that die every day 200 children TB. Who proposed more information and awareness for both the population and workforce, and further research to develop a manageable and easy technique to detect the disease. With respect to the treatment, Grzemska...