Temperatures plummeted to minus 37 Celsius (minus 35 Fahrenheit) in northern Slovakia and rescue workers dug through snow on mountain roads to rescue stranded bus passengers in the Balkans.In Romania, 80 percent of the Danube river was frozen over stopping ships sailing to the Black Sea, but the biggest concern was for children in the [...]
People with psoriasis develop thick, red, scaly patches on the skin, which are often itchy or sore.Experts believe the disease is caused by an abnormal immune system attack on the body’s own cells. Some studies have suggested that smokers are more vulnerable to psoriasis, possibly because the habit can affect immune activity.But most have studied [...]
People with psoriasis develop thick, red, scaly patches on the skin, which are often itchy or sore.Experts believe the disease is caused by an abnormal immune system attack on the body’s own cells. Some studies have suggested that smokers are more vulnerable to psoriasis, possibly because the habit can affect immune activity.But most have studied [...]
High-level officials from the United Nations have been based in Kenya’s capital Nairobi since 1995 because of security concerns, although its Political Office for Somalia had a few political officers in the capital Mogadishu.Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militants withdrew from most of their bases in Mogadishu last August after sustained pressure from Somali and African [...]
Researchers also found that having more teledermatology appointments meant it was more likely that a patient’s condition would improve.The findings are further evidence, experts said, that video conferencing with a far-away skin doctor might help people who live in remote areas where specialists are hard to come by — or even those who have a [...]
The protests began on Thursday in support of a deputy health minister who quit after criticizing a draft bill that would have added private firms to the state health sector.The cabinet withdrew the bill on Friday, but that did little to assuage the demonstrators, who returned to the streets to express general anger at a [...]
Protesters also gathered peacefully in several large cities across Romania, including Cluj, Timisoara and Iasi, calling for the resignation of President Traian Basescu and the centrist government of Prime Minister Emil Boc.The protests began across the country Thursday in support of a deputy health minister who resigned after criticizing a controversial draft healthcare reform bill [...]
And the longer patients have psoriasis, the higher their risks are, said researchers, whose findings were published in the American Journal of Cardiology.One of the things that we’ve come to understand is that psoriasis is not a disease that’s just limited to the skin, said April Armstrong of the University of California, Davis, who worked [...]
The study, published in the American Journal of Cardiology, also suggests the heart risks are higher in people who’ve had psoriasis longer.Our advice to patients with psoriasis is to make sure they get screened for their modifiable cardiovascular risk factors, said Dr. Joel Gelfand, a professor of dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.According to [...]
Kenya stepped up security after sending troops into neighboring Somalia last October to pursue Islamist al Shabaab rebels, whom it blames for a string of kidnappings and cross-border attacks, often targeting tourists.We believe that terrorists may be in the final stages of planning attacks. Attacks could be indiscriminate and target Kenyan institutions as well as [...]
