One Health Planet

After an intense public debate in September over whether apple juice contained unsafe levels of arsenic, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released new data after additional juice testing and found that most of the samples contained low levels of the heavy metal. About 95 percent of the 160 juice samples the agency collected between 2005 and 2011 had total arsenic levels below 23 ppb (parts per billion), which the FDA considers at its “level of concern,” and nearly 88 percent had levels less than 10 ppb.

But there were eight samples — mostly from the U.S. — that contained high levels of arsenic. These results, however, were not reported in September when the agency released initial findings after TV’s Dr. Oz claimed apple juice had high levels of of the toxic metal. The FDA said at the the time, they were waiting to confirm the levels in these samples.
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Today internet has become one of the best options to collect information as well as explore the latest items. Gone were the days when shopping was restricted to visiting the stores and purchasing stuff from them. With the help of the internet it has been possible that you can now shop for any of the products through internet only. It is because it does not take much time and one does not need to go to the store. This is the reason that one looks for convenient options and what better can you get from internet. Similarly medicines and cosmetics can also be ordered from the online. Many people Buy Celexa Online because you can get some sort of discount and at the same time there are no extra charges which you will have to pay.

Celexa is nothing but a drug which is used to treat the different kinds of disorders. People who are suffering from depression can also take this medicine but it depends from person to person whether the drug is effective or not. It may be possible that it may suit a few persons while others may have some side effects.
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For the first time on record, fewer people worldwide are getting sick from tuberculosis, but cash is short in the fight against drug-resistant forms of the disease, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. A total of 8.8 million people around the world fell ill with TB last year, down from a peak of nine million people in 2005, said the WHO’s 2011 Global Tuberculosis Control Report.

Deaths from TB also fell globally to its lowest level in a decade, to 1.4 million in 2010, after peaking at 1.8 million in 2003. However, efforts to combat multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) are underfunded, and the overall fight against TB is facing a $1 billion shortfall in 2012, the report said.
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The number of cases and deaths from breast and cervical cancer is rising in most countries across the world, especially in poorer nations where more women are dying at younger ages, according to a global study of the diseases. Researchers from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington found breast cancer cases more than doubled around the world in just three decades, from 641,000 cases in 1980 to 1.6 million cases in 2010 — a pace that far exceeds global population growth.

During the same period, deaths from breast cancer rose from 250,000 a year to 425,000 a year — a much slower increase, suggesting that screening and treatment programs now common in wealthier countries are having a positive impact. The number of cervical cancer cases rose from 378,000 cases in 1980 to 454,000 in 2010, and deaths from cervical cancer rose at almost the same pace as cases, according to the study published in The Lancet medical journal on Thursday.
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People who eat plenty of folate had a lower risk of colon and rectal cancers in a new study that examined the effects of folic acid fortification in the United States. In addition, the study did not find any extra cancer-related danger at very high levels of folate — as some researchers have worried — over close to a decade.

The benefit and possible harm of folate is “definitely still an open question,” said study author Todd Gibson, from the National Cancer Institute in Rockville, Maryland. But, he said, “there seems to be an association between people who report higher folate with those people who have a lower risk of colorectal cancer.”
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Australian health officials urged tourists who visited a popular adventure ranch west of the Great Barrier Reef at the weekend to come forward after a horse died from from the killer Hendra virus.Passed from fruit bats (flying foxes) to horses and highly fatal to humans, Hendra claimed the life of a horse at the Blazing Saddles adventure farm on Monday, west of the Reef gateway city Cairns.

At least six people were known to have had contact with the sick animal and Queensland health officials said they were working to determine how many others could have been exposed at the popular tourist site. “I would like to reassure any tourists or visitors to the property over the weekend that transmission of the virus requires close contact with body fluids of the sick horse,” said Queensland health chief Jeannette Young.
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