2015年3月17日 星期二

2015-03-18 Singapore Health


Malay Mail Online
   
Singapore launches elderly care system to monitor seniors from afar   
Malay Mail Online
Pre-school teacher Doris Oo (right) and her mother Mabel Chen (left) with the SEMAS system. ― Today picSINGAPORE, March 18 — For years, pre-school teacher Doris Oo had been calling her mother — who suffers from high blood pressure and diabetes ...

Thumbs up for HDB system to keep elders safe   AsiaOne
Smart system helps carers monitor seniors from afar   TODAYonline
Elderly alert system in Singapore's public housing proves welcome   Xinhua
Channel News Asia   
The Straits Times   
FutureGov Magazine   
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Times LIVE
   
Forget antibiotics, try dung mushrooms   
Times LIVE
Lead researcher Andreas Essig said: " Horse dung is a very rich substrate that harbours a diversity of micro-organisms, including fungi and bacteria. File photo. Image by: Wikimedia commons. European biologists have discovered a bacteria-killing compound ...

Horse dung mushrooms anti-bacterial   News24
Horse dung has scientists on scent of antibiotic success   The New Age Online

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St. Cloud Times
   
Know how to spot, help depression of college students   
St. Cloud Times
The March 8 Times news report "College counselors work to accommodate growing demand" highlights an important issue not just for a metro area with four major colleges, but the countless local families with young adults in higher education. In keeping with ...

Acceptance, support crucial to recovery from mental illness   The Straits Times

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Channel News Asia
   
ND Dept. of Health Encourages Residents to Eat Less Salt   
KXNet.com
It's World Salt Awareness Week and the North Dakota Department of Health is warning the state about the risks of over-eating sodium. According to the American Heart Association, about 90% of American's eat significantly more salt than they should.
Salty snacks tied to higher blood pressure in youths   AsiaOne

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OregonLive.com
   
Stress actually makes you dumber. Bring on the kittens (or at least Bob Newhart)!   
OregonLive.com
All of us are stressed out. Week in and week out. That's just the way it goes. And studies show it's actually making us dumber -- "because the brain's capacity to think is fractured," says Rajita Sinha, who heads Yale University's Stress Center. But you can do ...

Does Stress Make Us Forgetful? (Is That Why We Can't Find the Car Keys?)   Wall Street Journal

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Luxemburger Wort - English Edition
   
New cancer fears in France over breast implants   
Luxemburger Wort - English Edition
(AFP) France's national cancer institute said on Tuesday there was a "clearly established link" between a rare form of cancer and a certain type of breast implant, as the health minister sought to allay fears. The national cancer institute (INCa) said there had ...


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AsiaOne
   
A mother's quest to cure her son   
AsiaOne
Nashville, Tennessee - At 55-years-old, Terry Jo Bichell is a couple of months away from earning a PHD in neuroscience. She says it puts her one step closer to achieving a goal she set out for herself 16 years ago - to cure her son Louis from a debilitating ...


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NDTV
   
Women are Key in Tackling Disaster, Say UN Officials   
NDTV
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) administrator Helen Clark delivers a speech on the sidelines of the third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai on March 15, 2015. (Agence France-Presse). Sendai, Japan: Women ...

Women are key in tackling disaster: UN officials   The Nation

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Irish Examiner
   
France weighs skinny model ban   
CNN
Paris (CNN) French lawmakers are weighing a ban on extremely thin models. New legislation debated in Parliament Tuesday would require modeling agencies to get medical certificates from models proving that their body mass index is at least 18. Models ...

Tall, skinny, no fun: France wants ultra-thin models banned   Times LIVE
French Lawmakers Aim To Criminalize 'Excessive Thinness' In Advertising   Huffington Post
France considers ban on anorexic fashion models   CBS News
The Globe and Mail   
CBC.ca   
The Express Tribune   
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Newsweek
   
Unclean Water Kills Half a Million Newborns a Year   
Newsweek
Wassa Diakite, 35, holds her baby Fatoumata Doumbia, 4 months, so she can be vaccinated in Kalabancoro, on the outskirts of Bamako, Mali, on March 13, 2015. Tara Todras-Whitehill/WaterAid. Filed Under: World, Water, Ebola, Infant Mortality. Half a million ...

100000 Infant Deaths Could Be Prevented Annually If Babies Were Washed ...   Huffington Post
One in five newborn deaths could be prevented with safe water: experts   Reuters
Nearly Half a Million Babies Die From Poor Hygiene   TIME
The Market Business   
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