2014年11月2日 星期日

2014-11-03 Singapore Health

  AsiaOne   
New group to support brain tumour patients  AsiaOne
Thirteen-year-old Dean Tang Yek Seng was one of 20 young brain tumour patients at KKH to get a spin yesterday in a supercar as part of the first Paediatric Brain Tumour Awareness Day. Print. After losing her mother to brain cancer, Ms Melissa Lim was ...

Non-profit organisation to raise brain tumour awareness launched   Channel News Asia
New Brain Tumour Society seeks to raise awareness about the illness in ...   The Straits Times
Brain cancer claims 18 locals every year   Fraser Coast Chronicle
Warwick Daily News   
Bournemouth Echo   
Bourne Local   
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  The Nation   
Armed with whistles, children to deter open defecation  The Hindu
In a bid to check the practice of open defecation, a social experiment will soon be started in villages of Indore division where children will blow a loud whistle to embarrass those who defecate in public. The State government is planning to set up groups of ...

Children asked to blow whistle on open defecation   Arab News
Kids to blow whistle on open defecation   Himalayan Times
Open Defecation: In Madhya Pradesh, Children to Act as 'Whistleblowers'   NDTV
Channel News Asia   
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  Channel News Asia   
Need for wellness centres that provide basic elderly care, says Shanmugam  TODAYonline
SINGAPORE — With Singapore's population ageing, medical costs will rise in tandem. Therefore, wellness centres that provide basic nursing and elderly care for those who do not need intense and costly medical interventions in hospitals will be needed, said ...

Seniors looking after older ones can help elderly age in place: Shanmugam   Channel News Asia

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  AsiaOne   
Blood not sold for profit, say private hospitals in Malaysia  AsiaOne
PETALING JAYA - Private hospitals have denied profiting from donated blood although they charge patients a minimum of RM160 for a bag of blood, regardless of where they get it from. Association of Private Hospitals of Malaysia president Datuk Dr Jacob ...


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  AsiaOne   
Donations of organs save 3000 patients  AsiaOne
Nearly 1,300 Chinese citizens have donated organs posthumously for lifesaving transplants this year as of Thursday, saving more than 3,000 lives, an official said. The number of public organ donations in 2014 is expected to exceed the total in the four ...

Organ Donations   WTOC
43-year-old Yeovil man who died of stroke is honoured after saving several lives ...   Western Gazette

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  Times of Malta   
Turning back the gym clock  Times of Malta
The keenest of all newly-christened fitness enthusiasts are young men wishing to lift their way to greater strength and muscle mass. Often the keenest of all among gym converts and newly-christened fitness enthusiasts are young men wishing to lift their way ...

He's got the moves   AsiaOne
How do I choose some more challenging exercises?   Cape Gazette

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  The Hindu   
China To Send Elite Army Unit To Ebola-Hit Liberia  Huffington Post
Health workers unload the lifeless body of a man, as they carry him to a grave site, after he is suspected of contracting the Ebola virus on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014. The United States will help fight Ebola over "the long haul," the ...

China Sending Elite Army Medical Team to Liberia   Wall Street Journal
China to send elite army unit to help fight Ebola in Liberia   Toronto Sun
UPDATE 1-China to send elite army unit to help fight Ebola in Liberia   Reuters
Voice of America   
ABC Online   
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  News24   
Nurse: No option but to fight Ebola quarantine  News24
Fort Kent - A nurse who successfully fought a state quarantine for health care workers who have treated Ebola patients, said she had no option but to challenge how medical professionals were being treated and is hopeful that others who return from West ...

Ebola nurse claims her quarantine was driven by 'an abundance of politics', not ...   Daily Mail
Nurse Takes Jab At Gov. Christie, Says Mandatory Quarantine Was Politics   CBS Local
Maine nurse gives ground on Ebola quarantine   13WMAZ
The Trentonian   
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  Channel News Asia   
Argentina's president feverish, in hospital  Channel News Asia
Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner was admitted to hospital late Sunday (Nov 2) suffering from fever, her office said. PHOTOS. Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in Buenos Aires on Aug 20, 2014. (Photo: AFP/Juan Mabromata). Enlarge ...

Argentine president in hospital with fever   Kansas City Star
Argentina says Fernandez in hospital for treatment of fever   swissinfo.ch

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  Echonetdaily   
SARS legacy in Asia offers Ebola lessons  Echonetdaily
A man in a Hello Kitty mask in Beijing during the 2003 SARS outbreak in in China. AP Photo/Greg Baker. The SARS outbreak of 2003 put Hong Kong on the frontline of a global health crisis – but the city's ultimately successful war on the virus offers lessons for ...

Legacy of SARS in Asia Can Offer Lessons To Current Ebola Fight   Counsel & Heal
Legacy of Sars in Asia offers lessons for Ebola fight   The Nation

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