Beach season may be drawing to a close in the Northern Hemisphere, but it’s not too late to get a really nasty sunburn, especially if you’re traveling to a high altitude area. A study conducted…
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal addressed two studies that show the health benefits of planning and taking a vacation. According to the studies, wellness factors such as health status, mood, and tension,…
As a follow up to Mike’s post earlier this month on The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years, Sonia Shah’s recent book on malaria, we noticed that the Freakonomics blog will pass…
Throughout the summer dengue fever has continued to crop up in the U.S. and around the world as regional rainy seasons produce safe havens in which disease-carrying mosquitoes can breed. This week, the U.S. Embassy…
CNBC recently ran a piece about counterfeit products in the marketplace highlighting the growing problem of counterfeit medicines. While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recognizes that counterfeits threaten the safe drug supply in the…
The antibiotic-resistant enzyme, the carbapenemase NDM-1, has been appearing in recent headlines across the globe. For that reason, the Healthy Travel Blog requested some perspective on the situation from Dr. Vanya Gant, a Specialist in Infectious Diseases…
Last week the British Medical Journal The Lancet reported that a new bacterium resistant to almost all antibiotics, coined New Delhi metallo-lactamase-1 or NDM-1 has emerged from India and Pakistan, and infected patients in Canada,…
The pronouncement last week by WHO Director General Margaret Chan that the H1N1 pandemic is officially over apparently ignores the latest reports from India. Health officials in the world’s second most populous nation say that…
Last August, we blogged about the increase in jellyfish encounters around the world – especially citing abundant reports from Spain and the surrounding Mediterranean region. This issue has resurfaced (pun intended!) one year later as…
After weeks of fighting a losing battle, Russia may finally be getting a grip on the drought-driven wildfires that have destroyed over half a million acres within 250 miles of Moscow. It was not until…
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