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Heart attack death rates for women

Heart attack death rates higher for women because of gender gap in care, charity...

As many as two women every day die needlessly from heart attacks in England and Wales because they don't receive the same care and treatment as men, new research has found.
Worst Foods With Prediabetes

7 Worst Foods With Prediabetes

Prediabetes is a condition in which your blood sugar is chronically high, just not so high as to be classified as actual diabetes. But the condition comes with health risks just the same, not the least of which is the much higher chance of developing full blown type 2 diabetes.
climate action

Thunberg tells UN ‘you’ve stolen my dreams’ – climate action summit

Some 60 world leaders gather at UN for a "climate emergency" summit aimed at reinvigorating the faltering Paris agreement, at a time when mankind is releasing more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than at any time in history.
UN

With 5 billion set to miss out on health care, UN holds landmark summit...

Some five billion people risk missing out on health care in 2030, unless countries close glaring gaps in health coverage, a new report revealed on Sunday, as the UN prepares to host a landmark summit to speed up progress on universal health care.
Alcohol

Alcohol-producing gut bacteria could cause liver damage

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the build-up of fat in the liver due to factors other than alcohol. It affects about a quarter of the adult population globally, but its cause remains unknown.
Pure fruit juice

Pure fruit juice: junk food or health food?

Fruit juice was once viewed as part of a healthy diet, but today it is often seen as supplying little more than a high dose of sugar. Increasingly, fruit juices are seen as junk foods, and consumption is falling. But, as we argue in our recently published paper, fruit juice should not be cut from our diets. Major reasons for not consuming fruit are that it involves effort and it is often inconvenient. But fruit juice avoids the problems of intact fruit while providing the same range of health-promoting chemicals.
euthanasia

Dutch doctor acquitted in landmark euthanasia case

Medic cleared of failing to obtain proper consent from patient with Alzheimer’s
IRCS

IRCS rescues over 37,000 from death during summer

The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) has rescued 37,536 individuals in natural disasters or accidents happened due to human errors since the beginning of summer (June 22), within the framework of the national rescue and relief scheme, IRCS director Morteza Salimi has said.
Amazon

It’s Not Just Fires. Your Phone Is Also Destroying The Amazon.

“You could drop a nuclear bomb on the forest, and it would be better than mining it.”
Microplastics in water

Microplastics in water: no proof yet they are harmful, says WHO

Report calls for more research and warns against complacency over the issue

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