2014年12月30日 星期二

2014-12-31 Singapore Health


Two surgeons suspended, fined S$10000 each for misconduct   
TODAYonline
SINGAPORE — One surgeon used a non-standard device on three patients, while another instigated a nurse to alter a patient's consent form to reflect an additional surgical procedure the latter had not agreed to. For such acts of professional misconduct, ...


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Scottish Daily Record
   
Pressure upped on IMF to cancel debts of Ebola hit West Africa nations   
Firstpost
The International Monetary Fund is under mounting pressure to cancel the debts of the three poor West African countries hit hardest by Ebola, as their economies stall under the fallout from the disease. The calls for a debt alleviation for Guinea, Liberia and ...

Ebola nurse 'should have been kept at Heathrow'   Irish Independent
Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey was cleared to fly after British testing 'shambles'   The Australian (blog)
Heathrow cleared Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey for travel   Irish Times
THISDAY Live   
Herald Scotland   
Irish Examiner   
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Financial Post
   
Elder-care health startups explode as 'sandwich generation' grapples with ...   
Financial Post
FotoliaA growing number of high-level Silicon Valley executives from the “sandwich generation” — those who are simultaneously caring for children and parents — have left their jobs to launch mobile and digital health startups. Twitter · Google+ · LinkedIn ...

Silicon Valley execs from 'sandwich generation' leave jobs to launch health ...   The Globe and Mail
RPT-Elder-care challenges prompt tech execs to create startups, apps   Reuters
Elder-care challenges prompt tech executives to create startups, apps   AsiaOne

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AsiaOne
   
New Malaria Combination Drug Therapy for Children   
Infection Control Today
A drug combination of artemisinin-naphthoquine should be considered for the treatment of children with uncomplicated malaria in settings where multiple parasite species cause malaria according to Tim Davis from University of Western Australia, Fremantle, ...

Bugged by the malaria malaise   AsiaOne

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Malay Mail Online
   
Floods: More than 1200 infectious diseases detected in Pahang in six days   
The Star Online
KUANTAN: A total 1,220 cases of flood related infectious such as eye and skin diseases were detected in Pahang in six days until Sunday. Pahang Health director Dr Zainal Ariffin Omar said the findings were made during health checks on 4,073 flood victims.
More than 1200 infectious diseases detected in Pahang in 6 days   Astro Awani
Over 1200 infectious disease cases detected in Pahang   Malay Mail Online
1220 cases of infectious diseases detected in Pahang   Free Malaysia Today
The Malaysian Insider   
New Straits Times Online   
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Bangkok Post
   
Japan orders slaughter of 37000 chickens in bird flu outbreak   
Bangkok Post
TOKYO - Japan on Tuesday ordered the slaughter of some 37,000 chickens after the country's third bird flu outbreak in less than a month, prompting Hong Kong to ban imports from the latest affected region. Japanese health officers disinfect a poultry farm in ...


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AsiaOne
   
Offbeat news from 2014   
AsiaOne
Left: A high-tech 'true-love' tester bra. Right: Sandra the orang utan was recognised by a court as a 'non-human person' with rights to her freedom. Print. PARIS - Some of the stranger stories from the year just ending: In January, a Japanese lingerie company ...

Designer bra and other offbeat tales   Inquirer.net
Strictly unusual: offbeat stories from 2014   dunyanews.tv (press release) (blog)

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ArchDaily
   
In Haiti, Battling Disease With Open-Air Clinics   
New York Times
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The pictures of medical dysfunction were devastating — broken hospitals in Africa struggling, and largely failing, to contain the Ebola epidemic. As deaths mounted, the problems seemed intractable: no money, no infrastructure, ...

Kimmelman on MASS Design Group's Open-Air Clinics in Haiti   ArchDaily
MASS Design Group's new Open-Air Clinics in Haiti, reviewed by Michael ...   Archinect

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AsiaOne
   
She thought hubby was having an affair   
AsiaOne
"He was always too tired to get intimate and when he did, more often than not, he couldn't finish the job." Madam Mary Tan, 32, who is part of an operations team at a manufacturing company, is talking about her husband, Mr Shaun Ang, 36. Mr Ang works in ...

IS IT THE FOOD? More young men in S'pore seeking help for erectile dysfunction   Malaysia Chronicle

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The Nation
   
Doctors took 'party' pictures while patients were undergoing plastic surgery   
Mirror.co.uk
Plastic surgeons have been slammed after photographs emerged of them partying in an operating theatre - while patients were undergoing surgery. Shared via Instagram, one shows a clinic staff member in South Korea standing in front of a candlelit cake ...

Clinic probed over operating room party pics   UPI.com
South Korean clinic probed over selfies of staff partying in operating theatre   The Straits Times
Seoul plastic surgery clinic probed over staff selfies   inSing.com News
NEWS.com.au   
NDTV   
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