Given the increasing incidence of cardiovascular risk factors in adolescents and young adults, experts are warning that we are facing an epidemic of premature heart disease very soon.
" 'For the millions of people worldwide who suffer from a disease of epidemic proportions, our treatment could relieve them of the onerous daily requirements for insulin administration and dietary restrictions and offer a life free from the very serious and even life-threatening complications associated with diabetes.
Bodies of water that will be used for Olympic competitions are polluted, and global public health officials are trying to tamp down the Zika virus epidemic.
But these same experts added that the Zika epidemic, as well as the related spread of a disease called dengue that is sickening as many as 100 million people a year and killing thousands, should be interpreted as warnings.
Nobody seemed to be able to stop this tragic epidemic, either the teachers in the schools or the preachers in the churches.
: I think she's got epidemic meningitis.
A way to solve the obesity epidemic and the fuel crisis?
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, which affects about one in five adults in the United States, is tightly linked to the obesity epidemic.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf ·· When the Ebola epidemic took on alarming proportions in West Africa, it was tough for Liberia, one of the epicenters of the crisis.
"It is an epidemic or, at least, it's very common," Kenneth Hansraj, chief of spine surgery at New York Spine Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, told The Washington Post.
Last year, healthcare workers treating the Ebola epidemic were honored.
And now it's back with a new global epidemic.
World leaders have unanimously committed to ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030 as part of theSustainable Development Goals adopted in September.
Worse, young students have been hit hard in recent years by the epidemic, he said, and 70 to 80 percent of the HIV/AIDS cases detected in 2015 among them involved gay sex.
This was the soil on which my great-grandfather had married his third wife a year before dying in the cholera epidemic that hit Kabul in 1915.
'If you can have complete darkness at night time you might be able to recreate time's pre-industrial period and have a stab at improving the obesity epidemic.
Not so long ago, the US believed it had cracked the violent crime epidemic.
'If you can have complete darkness at night time you might be able to recreate time's pre-industrial period and have a stab at improving the obesity epidemic.
Noting this, public health experts frequently promote home cooking as a way to curb the obesity epidemic and reduce risk factors for heart disease and diabetes.
Yet despite what seems like an epidemic of unhealthy behavior, a lot of management literature flirts with condoning such practices.