The World Health Organization wants the tobacco industry to compensate for the pollution from growing and distributing tobacco products. It said tobacco plants require large quantities of insecticides and tobacco waste contains more than 7,000 toxic chemicals.
Scientists from the University of Pittsburgh believe they’ve come up with a new test that measures last traces of HIV in a patient’s blood. It was able to detect 70 times as much of the virus as the test currently considered the gold standard.
Women with higher body mass indexes reported experiencing more hot flashes and night sweats according to a new study. A Brazillian study of nearly 800 women found body fat acted like a heat insulator.
Sources:
1. World Health Organization
2. Nature Medicine
3. Menopause, journal of The North American Menopause Society
