2015年6月24日 星期三

2015-06-25 Singapore Health


THE BUSINESS TIMES
   
EconomyKorea cuts GDP forecast on Mers outbreak   
Financial Times
The impact of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome has forced South Korea to cut its growth outlook for 2015. Korea's finance ministry cut its GDP forecast this year from 3.8 per cent to 3.1 per cent as a result of Mers and drought. It also sees lower inflation: the ...

S.Korea says to "reinforce finances" by 15 trillion won, cut 2015 GDP forecast   Economic Times
Mers prompts fiscal stimulus in South Korea as confidence falls   THE BUSINESS TIMES
Commercial Times: From SARS to MERS -- Learn from past experience   Focus Taiwan News Channel
Chron.com   
AsiaOne   
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Reuters UK
   
Drug-resistant bacteria lurk in crowded Afghan war clinic   
Reuters UK
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan A frontline hospital in Afghanistan already stretched by rising war casualties is facing another, invisible danger that is only beginning to come to light: highly contagious strains of drug-resistant bacteria which are making treatment harder ...


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AsiaOne
   
Beauty: Who decides how you look?   
AsiaOne
When I was in Myanmar with my family last year, I couldn't help but notice that most of the women and children had odd-looking yellow patches on their cheeks. We reckoned that it was probably their version of the Malaysian bedak sejuk (cooling rice powder) ...


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Celebrities not immune in the war on narcotics   
ecns
Arrests of Chinese actors and singers on drug-related offenses over the past few years show that those in the nation's entertainment industry are not immune to prosecution, a key official with the Beijing Public Security Bureau said on Wednesday. "We are ...


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AsiaOne
   
Medical services move into Shaw Centre   
AsiaOne
The new Raffles Medical Centre offers services in five areas, including traditional Chinese medicine and health screening. The $4 million centre will open officially on July 23. Photo:LIANHE ZAOBAO. Thursday, Jun 25, 2015. The Straits Times By Timothy Goh.

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AsiaOne
   
Dealing with death and burnout   
AsiaOne
Please don't move house, in case I come back and I can't find you. These were the words that his nine-year-old brain tumour patient said to her parents on her deathbed. Such emotional scenes are part of the job for palliative care doctors, said one who visits ...

Seasons Hospice Foundation and Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care Open ...   Digital Journal

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Covidien agrees to settle some cases over transvaginal mesh devices   
Reuters
NEW YORK Medtronic Plc's Covidien unit has agreed to settle some of the more than 11,000 claims involving its transvaginal mesh devices, which patients allege caused severe and painful side effects, according to a court filing. The filing on Tuesday in West ...


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PhillyVoice.com
   
In twist, scientists join tobacco companies to fight cancer   
PhillyVoice.com
Scientists who have devoted years developing medicines to cure disease are now working for tobacco companies to make e-cigarettes. Philip Morris International Inc has hired more than 400 scientists and technical staff at its research facility in Neuchatel, ...

Global E-cigarette Market 2015 with a CAGR of 30.56 During this year   Naples Daily News
Another House Appropriations Bill Puts Tobacco Industry before Kids by ...   PR Newswire (press release)

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The Guardian Nigeria
   
Guinea quarantines villages in reinforced bid to stamp out Ebola   
Reuters Africa
CONAKRY, June 24 (Reuters) - Guinea will put four villages under a 21-day quarantine as part of a robust strategy to stamp out a lingering Ebola epidemic after new cases of the disease were discovered there. ADVERTISING. The worst Ebola epidemic on ...

Ebola cases not slowing in Guinea, Sierra Leone   Boston Globe
Sierra Leone President returns hale & hearty   Awareness Times

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Los Angeles Times
   
A blood test for pancreatic cancer may re-stack the odds in patients' favor   
Los Angeles Times
Researchers at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston have identified a large and readily detectable molecule that circulates in the blood and has detected, with perfect accuracy and no false positives, the presence of pancreatic cancer in a small group of ...

Blood Test Might Detect Deadly Pancreatic Cancer in Early Stages   NBCNews.com
Prototype test could dramatically boost chances of surviving pancreatic cancer   The Independent
M.D. Anderson study called potential 'game-changer' for treating pancreatic cancer   Houston Chronicle (subscription)
NBC Right Now   
Newsmax   
HealthCanal.com   
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