Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (71) was sent to a hospital from prison on Tuesday. Olmert, who faces a two-year sentence for corruption, had complained about chest pain in Israeli media. A spokeswoman from the prison service only wanted to confirm that he had been transported for hospital examination.
In and around the major Dutch cities, more parks and hiking areas must be built in the coming years. 'Recreational growth is important for public health. In addition, it helps with drainage and cools on heat waves. '
Companies Happitech, Arrythmia Alliance and Bug Labs announce the launch of the Heart For Heart initiative. Heart for Heart invites people to participate in the world's largest and first cancer-sponsored heart health initiative.
Yemen currently has 101,820 choler patients. The outbreak of the disease in the country affected by civil war began on April 27th. The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) announced Thursday that 789 people have died of the disease.
The Saudi arms trader Adnan Kashoggi died in London at the age of 81. That said his family told the British press office PA on Tuesday. Kashoggi, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, was one of the most controversial members of the international jet set in the eighties.
The cholera epidemic in Yemen is taking ever more serious forms. Since late April, more than 650 people have died of the disease and more than 80,000 people may be infected. Nearly 40 percent of those infected are under the age of fifteen, the emergency organization Save the Children reports Monday.
People should always maintain machine control. The EU must ensure that artificial intelligence (KI) is ethically accountable. The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) will deliver an opinion to the European Commission on Wednesday.
Doctors and patient associations have difficulty displaying Muslims with diabetes from the ramadan or, at any rate, to adjust their medication. Although they have been warning for the effects of fasting for years, the Ramadan still leads to additional hospitalizations. The Islamic fasting period begins this weekend.
A 37-year-old woman died in measles in the German city of Essen. The woman, a mother of three children, succumbed to the disease despite intensive treatment in a university clinic.
The state of emergency was declared Sunday in the Yemeni capital Sanaa due to a cholera epidemic. The outbreak of fatal infectious disease has already claimed tens of lives. That's what the authorities in the city, where the Houthi movement is swinging the scepter, announced.
Again there is an infection with ebola established in Congo. That said the World Health Organization (WHO) on Sunday. Another seventeen people may also be infected. The WHO is now conducting extensive research. A total of 125 people were investigated who had contact with suspected infectious persons.
Ebola has broken out in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Certainly one and maybe three people have died as a result of an infection with the ebola virus. That reports the Congolese Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization on Friday.
Four of the victims of a recently emerged mysterious disease in Liberia have been tested positively for a form of meningitis, such as meningitis, said the health minister on Monday.
The Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture ordered Monday to cut 2200 wild reindeer. In some animals, an infectious brain disease has been identified, the Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), which only recently occurred in North America and South Korea.
The reportedly heaviest woman in the world has broken down her abduction barn after quarreling with Indian doctors and continued in Abu Dhabi.
A 69-year-old man from New Zealand who had it completely with the doctors who should treat him for his heart rhythm disorder has taken it on his own. He grabbed his neighbor's electric fence and recovered his heart rhythm with shock.
Nine people died and eight became ill after visiting Liberia in a funeral of a religious leader. That said the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday. Other sources speak of eleven dead.
The donor countries pledged almost 1.1 billion dollars (1 billion euros) for humanitarian aid to Yemen during the Geneva conference. That was announced by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday after the meeting. The United Nations assumes that approximately twice is needed to fight the famine in Yemen, where every child dies for a period of 10 minutes through malnutrition and disease.
People who suspect they have HIV or another sexually transmitted disease (STD), may from Tuesday through online chat get an anonymous and reliable advice. Also, reference is made to reliable STD tests. STI AIDS Netherlands and the Aids Fund was developed before an application accessible 24 hours a day. Advies.chat can be reached with a smart phone, desktop, and tablet. The call is automated, but people can themselves ask additional questions.
Nearly three hundred Q-fever patients liable to the government for their disease, appeal to the Court against a judgment of the court in The Hague trial.
The UN stop the peacekeeping mission in Haiti and replaced by a smaller police mission. The fifteen members of the UN Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to a proposal to that effect.
The parents of gravely ill British baby Charlie Gard should not examine their eight-month-old son in the United States. That the court decided in a case that had brought their parents to the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.
Pokemon Go was the best mobile game of the year. Therefore maker Niantic Thursday won a BAFTA Games Award. Pokemon Go defeated in London include Pokémon Sun / Moon, Deus Ex and Go Dawn of Titans.
The number of people worldwide smoke decreases proportionally, but in 2015 there were still 933 million. Tobacco addiction that year was responsible for 6.4 million deaths. According to a large study, the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015, published in the journal The Lancet.
Nigeria is facing a huge shortage of medicines to combat an outbreak of meningococcal. There are 282 dead and probably another two thousand sick, according to the head of the Nigerian Center for Disease local media. Most victims are five to 14 years.
Dutch medical scientists to cure over the next decade three major chronic diseases.
The famous astrophysicist Stephen Hawking is, if everything goes according to plan, the space. That said Hawking Tuesday to a British television program.
A British priest who 35 years ago had abused a boy, was condemned by the use of modern technology. His victim, now a 47-year-old man, suffered a fatal muscle disease and could not talk or write. But thanks to a special computer program that followed his eye movements, he could make a full testimony during the trial, letter by letter. From his bed in a hospice he had a video link with the courtroom.
People who have become in recent years, the victim of the Q-fever have to be compensated. Previously pleaded SP leader Emile Roemer Saturday in the Debate of the South.
In the civil war in Yemen are increasingly used children as soldiers. Especially the Houthi rebels recruit minors for battle, says the Human Rights Office of the United Nations.
