2015年5月30日 星期六

2015-05-31 Singapore Health


AsiaOne
   
Polyclinic to feature enhanced care teams   
AsiaOne
The new Pioneer Family Healthcare Centre in Jurong West will feature an enhanced care team model, the National Healthcare Group Polyclinics (NHGP) announced at a ground-breaking ceremony yesterday. In breaking with conventional modes of treatment ...

New polyclinic at Jurong West to open in 2017   Channel News Asia
New polyclinic in Jurong West to be ready by 2017   The Straits Times

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Channel News Asia
   
Supermarket chains pledge no tobacco sales on Sunday   
Channel News Asia
In support of World No Tobacco Day this year, supermarket chains in Singapore - Cold Storage, Jasons, Market Place, NTUC FairPrice, Prime Supermarket and Sheng Siong - have agreed to not sell tobacco products on Sunday. POSTED: 30 May 2015 22:20.
Supermarkets to halt cigarette sales on Sunday, in support of No Tobacco Day   The Straits Times

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AsiaOne
   
Parents fret over location of interim site for new JC   
AsiaOne
The new junior college site at the junction of Sin Ming Avenue and Marymount Road, on the site of the Asian Golf academy near Bishan, will be completed only by the end of 2019, more than a year later than intended. The new junior college will take in ...

Interim site for new JC – parents demand, MOE backs down   The Online Citizen

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The Star Online
   
Sex and the blame game   
The Star Online
The famous American author and educational administrator, Henry B. Eyring once said: “We live in a world where finding fault in others seems to be the favourite blood sport. It has long been the basis of political campaign strategy. It is the theme of much ...


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ABC Online
   
Beijing smokers to be fined, named and shamed, under tough new anti-tobacco ...   
ABC Online
China will roll out tough new anti-smoking laws in the capital Beijing on Monday, making it an offence to light up in restaurants, offices and on public transport. Health activists have spent years pushing for stronger restrictions and hope the ban will be ...

Beijing rolls out tough anti-smoking laws   The Australian Financial Review
Anti-tobacco protest   The Hindu
Stop illicit trade of tobacco products: WHO   Times of India
Reuters   
The Express Tribune   
The Nation   
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Irish Independent
   
Live anthrax found in US military shipment to Australia   
Irish Independent
Live anthrax has been found in a 2008 sample sent to Australia from the same U.S. Army facility identified this week for more recent, mistaken shipments to nine U.S. states and an air base in South Korea, a U.S. defense official said on Friday.
Anthrax sent to Massachusetts lab, Pentagon says   Boston Globe (subscription)
US Defense Dept. Launches Review Of Lab Procedures Involving Anthrax ...   Eurasia Review
Live anthrax sent to Australia by mistake   New Zealand Herald
USA TODAY   
iFreePress.com (blog)   
WILX-TV   
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AsiaOne
   
Societal cost of dementia hits S$157 million in Japan   
AsiaOne
The overall societal cost of dementia reached ¥14.5 trillion (S$157 million) in 2014 when direct medical costs and fees borne by patients' families were included, according to an estimate by a Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry task force. The first of its kind, ...


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AsiaOne
   
2 refuse quarantine out of 47 who had close contact with China's first MERS patient   
AsiaOne
GUANGZHOU - The number of people who have close contacts with China's first Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) patient rose to 47 on Saturday, local health authority announced on Saturday night. The man from the Republic of Korea (ROK), who ...

MERS-infected South Koreans rise to 15   Xinhua
(LEAD) Gov't to launch task force against MERS: health minister   Yonhap News
Number of MERS-infected South Koreans rises to 15   Global Times
Women of China   
NPR   
South China Morning Post (subscription)   
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AsiaOne
   
Doctors handing out antibiotics on demand   
AsiaOne
PETALING JAYA - Patients demand, doctors oblige. That's why we have become a nation of antibiotic pill poppers. More than half of patients in private clinic are given antibiotics for common ailments, even where bacteria are the unlikely cause. Most upper ...


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The Star Online
   
Paralysed ex-national athlete cries despite winning medical negligence suit   
The Star Online
Not a happy ending: Norazleen breaking down in tears outside the courtroom despite being richer by almost RM640,000. GEORGE TOWN: Norazleen Mohammed Mustaffa is richer by almost RM640,000 but she is not jumping with joy. She simply can't.

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