2014年8月25日 星期一

2014-08-26 Singapore Health

  Channel News Asia   
Fewer non-urgent cases at Changi General Hospital's A&E, thanks to GP scheme  The Straits Times
SINGAPORE - A scheme to encourage those with less serious conditions to visit General Practitioners (GP) first has resulted in a 10 per cent drop in the number of such cases at Changi General Hospital's (CGH) emergency department. Since GPFirst started ...

Fewer A&E cases seen at CGH following pilot GPFirst scheme   Channel News Asia

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  AsiaOne   
Gender equality group launches fundraiser for Sexual Assault Care Centre  The Straits Times
SINGAPORE - Gender equality advocacy group Aware is raising funds to support its new Sexual Assault Care Centre. It said on Monday that it aims to raise $30,000 through a six-week fundraising campaign (http://sacc.causevox.com/) ending on Oct 10, ...

Aware launches crowd-funding campaign for Sexual Assault Care Centre   AsiaOne

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  Mirror.co.uk   
Ebola victim Will Pooley: 'I'm going back to Africa as soon as I'm better in two ...  Mirror.co.uk
The 29-year-old nurse, being treated for the killer virus in London, is confident he will make a full recovery, telling pals in Sierra Leone: "I'll be better in two weeks." Share; Share; Tweet; +1; Email. Hero: Will Pooley is confident British doctors will be able to help ...

My happiness at helping save ebola patients, by hero nurse: Days later, he was ...   Daily Mail
Nearly Half Of Americans Are Afraid The U.S. Will Experience An Ebola Outbreak   Huffington Post
UN envoy says 'war' on Ebola could take six more months   The Sun Daily
Telegraph.co.uk   
New Zealand Herald   
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  Science Codex   
Scientists discover that drug used for DNA repair defects could treat leukaemia ...  Medical Xpress
RUNX proteins (red) facilitate the recruitment of Fanconi anemia factor (green) to sites of DNA damage. A team of scientists led by Research Associate Professor Motomi Osato and Professor Yoshiaki Ito from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI ...

Scientists Discover That Drug Used for DNA Repair Defects Could Treat ...   Newswise (press release)
Previously known drug could help treat leukaemia better: NUS study   The Straits Times

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  Times of India   
Cooking, pollution linked to high blood pressure in China  MENAFN.COM
(MENAFN - AFP) Women in China who are exposed to pollution from cookstoves and highways face a greater risk of high blood pressure, researchers said Monday. The study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences focused on the ...

Cooking, highway pollution linked to high blood pressure   The Straits Times

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  Bangkok Post   
Shigeta gets to end of month  Bangkok Post
Police have given 24-year-old Japanese businessman Mitsutoki Shigeta until the end of this month to give testimony or he will be summoned for a second time. A woman hired as a surrogate mother by Japanese businessman Mitsutoki Shigeta hides her face ...

Surrogate mums admit lying in court over Shigeta's babies   Phuket Gazette
Surrogate mums admit lying in court over Japanese man's babies   AsiaOne

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  The Straits Times   
Never too old for love  The Straits Times
The number of people aged 60 and above getting married has tripled over the past decade but it is mainly older men tying the knot late in life. There were 369 bridegrooms in this age group last year, triple the 119 in 2003. They comprised 1.4 per cent of all ...


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  Yahoo!7 News   
Cocaine addicted doctor continued performing surgery despite prostitutes ...  9news.com.au
August 26, 2014: NSW Police interviewed Dr Suresh Nair following his arrest over the death of two escorts who died from cocaine poisoning. Martin Zavan. A Sydney doctor who spent tens of thousands of dollars in lengthy cocaine-fuelled sex sessions with ...

Cocaine-addicted Dr Suresh Nair continued to work despite the overdose death ...   The Daily Telegraph
High-profile brothel The Golden Apple denies selling drugs in 'party package' in ...   Yahoo Singapore News

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  Yahoo!7 News   
Union: lack of secure mental health facilities  Kiama Independent-Lake Times
THE Health Service Union (HSU) has voiced concern over a shortage of high dependency mental health facilities on the South Coast that could see at-risk patients on the streets. Shellharbour Hospital's Eloura West unit is a secure observation unit for mental ...

Family of man allegedly killed in electric guitar attack in NSW South Coast ...   ABC Online

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  The Straits Times   
The New Thinking on Fat  U.S. News & World Report
Avoiding fat in order to lose weight? Experts now say that may be packing on the pounds. By Beth Howard Aug. 25, 2014 | 10:01 a.m. EDT + More. It's the ultimate paradox: The less fat Americans eat, the fatter they get. For decades, medical experts and public ...

10-minute jog a day to keep the doc away?   The Straits Times

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