2014年9月21日 星期日

2014-09-22 Singapore Health

  TODAYonline   
A bus on the road to save kidneys  The Straits Times
Health Minister Gan Kim Yong (second from right) checking out the interactive displays aboard NKF's educational bus (right). With him are NKF chief executive Edmund Kwok and staff member Jean Tan. -- PHOTO: DIOS VINCOY JR FOR THE STRAITS TIMES.
NKF widens education efforts with new mobile screening centre   TODAYonline
Kidney Health Education Bus to raise awareness of disease   Channel News Asia

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  AsiaOne   
Detect liver cancer early with free health screenings  AsiaOne
FREE hepatitis B screenings that can help to detect liver cancer will be held for 1,200 people aged 50 and above until Sunday. Public hospitals such as National University Hospital (NUH) and Singapore General Hospital will offer the screenings as part of the ...


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  Channel News Asia   
900 needy residents get free health screenings  TODAYonline
SINGAPORE — Around 900 needy residents have benefited from free health screenings that were held at the Jurong Medical Centre. The screenings started in August and ended yesterday. The screenings were organised by the South West Community ...

Free health screenings for needy residents   Channel News Asia

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  Daily News & Analysis   
Sierra Leone's Ebola lockdown likely to be extended; testing reveals dozens of ...  Daily News & Analysis
A three-day lockdown in Sierra Leone aimed at stemming the worst Ebola epidemic on record has identified dozens of new infections, but has not reached everyone in the country and is likely to be extended, a senior official said on Sunday. In one of the most ...

Sierra Leone's Ebola lockdown ends   Independent Online
Ebola lockdown ends, rush to set up clinics   Deutsche Welle
Sierra Leone claims Ebola curfew success   Aljazeera.com
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  AsiaOne   
NSmen get to take charge of own fitness training  AsiaOne
Mr Chan Chun Sing (in red) with army chief Perry Lim (standing, left) at the first IPT session in Bishan Park. Print. Operationally ready national servicemen (NSmen) will be allowed to use fitness tracking devices to monitor their physical fitness training on their ...

MINDEF allows NSmen to do IPT at 'own time, own target'   Red Sports

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  AsiaOne   
Health ministry must follow up on deadly foods  AsiaOne
PETALING JAYA - The Health Ministry must follow up on reports that there have been fatalities following the consumption of a certain traditional coffee mix. Fomca chief executive Datuk Paul Selvaraj said action must be taken against manufacturers who ...


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  The Independent   
Liberians dying of routine ailments amid Ebola epidemic  Columbia Daily Herald
(Left to right) Mawata Sheriff, Mohammed Sheriff, Fatuma Sheriff and Amie Turay talk about their sister's difficulty finding health care in Monrovia, Liberia. Their sister Fatumata Fofana died in late July from a pregnancy complication during four days of labor ...

More US troops in Ebola-hit Liberia   The Sun Daily
Liberia to provide 1000 Ebola beds in overwhelmed capital   GlobalPost
More beds for Liberian Ebola patients   Newstalk ZB

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  Yahoo News UK   
Japan: Sumo Wrestlers Force Babies to Cry in Centuries-Old Ritual for Good ...  Yahoo News UK
In a 400-year-old ritual believed to bring good health to infants, sumo wrestlers at a shrine in Tokyo reduced babies to tears, in a "baby-cry sumo" competition on 21 September. Over a hundred babies were bounced around in a makeshift sumo ring at Tokyo's ...

Having a bawl: Japan's sumo wrestlers grapple with cry-babies   The New Age Online

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Jobless and poor, Ghana's youth turn to selling blood  Yahoo Singapore News
Parents of the Japanese woman who was killed in the Ferrari crash on Rochor Road two years ago are reportedly seeking more than $700,000 from the estate of the car's driver. … Scots in Singapore have mixed feelings, Brits relieved after historic Scotland ...


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Living with our choices  Salina.com
No one argues anymore about whether cigarette smoking is dangerous or if it kills and sickens people. According to the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths annually in the U.S., ...


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