2015年8月17日 星期一

2015-08-18 Singapore Health


Channel News Asia
   
Why claim limits are better than caps on hospital bills: Health Minister   
Channel News Asia
Setting caps on hospital bills may inadvertently encourage wasteful consumption, such as ordering more tests than necessary, says Minister for Health Gan Kim Yong. POSTED: 18 Aug 2015 08:38. PHOTOS. A hospital ward in Singapore. (TODAY file photo).
Parliament: Better to cap claims than hospital bills, says Health Minister   The Straits Times

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Channel News Asia
   
In 2014, MSF helped more than 350 people with disabilities find jobs: Tan ...   
Channel News Asia
The placements in 2014 were part of Ministry of Social and Family Development's SG Enable organisation, a support service for persons with disabilities. POSTED: 18 Aug 2015 08:39. PHOTOS. File photo of a person in a wheelchair. (Photo: ThinkStock).
Community needs to play its part to tackle elder abuse: Tan Chuan-Jin   TODAYonline

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The Straits Times
   
Quadruplets born to German mum, 65, to leave hospital soon: Report   
The Straits Times
This photo taken on December 11, 2005 shows then 55-old Annegret Raunigk (1st row, 2nd from left), posing with her then youngest daughter Lelia (on her knees) and other children and grand-children in Cologne as guest in a German television show .
Quadruplets born to German mum, 65   The Nation
Big and Strong! Darling premature quadruplets to leave hospital soon   Malay Mail Online
65-year-old German woman, world's oldest mom of quadruplets, going home with ...   New York Daily News
Daily Mail   
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AsiaOne
   
Philippine lawmaker's new pitch for med marijuana: It won't kill you   
AsiaOne
Drugs and marijuana may both be toxic and addictive, "but at least marijuana doesn't kill." Thus responded Isabela Rep. Rodolfo Albano III to accusations that he was being "irresponsible" when he proposed a measure to legalize the use of marijuana or ...

Medical marijuana use debate heats up in Manila   Gulf Today
Docs say no to medical marijuana   Inquirer.net

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Independent Online
   
Social media danger video goes too far   
Independent Online
Washington - Late one night, a van pulls up to a small house in a sleepy suburban neighbourhood. The home's door opens and a 14-year-old girl comes outside. She'd met a boy on Facebook just a few days before and they'd chatted. His brother could drive, ...

Parents encourage to watch viral 'stranger danger' video with their kids   KRQE News 13
Teen girls shocked after secretly meeting man posing as 15-year-old boy   AsiaOne
Coby Persin's latest video experiment showing the dangers of social media will ...   Irish Mirror
98FM   
Yahoo News Canada (blog)   
12NewsNow.Com   
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The Online Citizen
   
Suicide and euthanasia – treading the ethical and legal boundaries   
The Online Citizen
Anything associated with death is generally considered taboo in most cultures and Singapore is no exception to this. No matter how distasteful the subject of death, it is a certainty for everyone at some point. To that extent, it is therefore ...
Reviving the slippery slope   National Right to Life News

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Poverty drives Myanmar girls into underage sex work   
TODAYonline
YANGON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Teenager Wut Yee was devastated when her mother, a sex worker, told her that she had just agreed to sell her daughter's virginity to a businessman for $3,000. Wut Yee, then 14, had quit school to handle ...


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New Vision
   
Drinking coffee could prevent colon cancer's return   
New Vision
In this July 31, 2012 file photo, esspresso being made at a coffee house in the Soho section of New York. Drinking four or more cups of caffeinated coffee daily may significantly reduce the chance that colon cancer will return in patients who were ...
Study finds that coffee could prevent colon cancer from returning   The Week Magazine
New findings on coffee and cancer risk   CBS News
Can Coffee Lower Risk of Colon Cancer's Return?   Philly.com

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NDTV
   
Page out of innovation: A book that filters water   
Times of India
LONDON: The next time you want to get clean water, all you need to do is tear a page from your very own "drinkable super book". Scientists have created pages which are impregnated with bacteria-killing metal nanoparticles - a highly inexpensive, simple ...

'Drinkable book' could provide millions with purified water   RT
Take a leaf out of this book for clean drinking water   Times LIVE
'Drinkable Book' Promises to Filter Dirty Water   TIME
Christian Science Monitor   
Voice of America   
BBC News   
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UPI.com
   
Academics split on study claiming video games cause violence   
UPI.com
While a meta-analysis of studies appears to confirm the link between games and aggressiveness, many researchers are questioning the accuracy of research because of overgeneralizations. By Stephen Feller | Aug. 17, 2015 at 5:21 PM ...

Violent video games trigger aggression   PPP Focus.com
Do violent video games lead to criminal behavior?   CBS News
Do video games make people violent?   BBC News
Sky News Australia   
TIME   
Daily Mail   
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