Rules of advertising have been violated, says a report formed by a group of experts highlights that the junk food manufacturers have been violating laws that the government has initiated for advertising junk food.

It has generally been seen that a number of people gets base tan before summer arrives or when they go for vacation in summers. They do so in order to protect themselves from sun burn.

Due to the untiring efforts of the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme started by the Ministry of Health, a significant decline in the malaria cases of Solomon Islands has been witnessed.

Two leading doctors have said the time has come to have an international agreement on when and how death is diagnosed. They are now looking forward to European meeting of anaesthetists to call for new guidelines and more research to avoid rare occasions when people are pronounced dead but are later found to be alive.

The vital feature of the mobile safety which is often skipped by most of the people is its SAR or Specific Absorption Rate value. It is the measure of amount of energy gained by a body when kept in an exposure to the radio frequency (RF) electromagnetic waves as discharge by cell phones.

SAR is illustrated in units of watts per kilogram (W/kg). It is suggested that lesser the value of SAR, safer is the phone.

According to UN World Health Organization (WHO), the only key to preventing hundreds of infections is washing hands thoroughly.

The awareness was started so as to mark the World Hand Hygiene Day that falls on May 5. The United Nations health agency said today that patients and their families as well as health-care professionals should wash their hands using soap and water or alcohol-based rub.