2015年9月2日 星期三

2015-09-03 Singapore Health


AsiaOne
   
Ease ban on long-term visitors who have HIV   
AsiaOne
The lifting of the ban on short-term visits by HIV-positive visitors is long overdue ("Entry ban eased for foreigners with HIV"; yesterday). Singapore was one of the few developed countries with such a restrictive policy. However, the restriction on ...
Singapore to Allow HIV Positive Travelers to Visit   Passport Magazine (blog)
HIV and AIDS Cure news and updates: A New Scanning Technique is Being ...   Crossmap
Singapore lifts ban on HIV positive visitors   Gay Star News
New Zealand Herald   
The Globe and Mail   
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AsiaOne
   
All of Malaysia's water vending machines to be licensed by Jan 1   
AsiaOne
PUTRAJAYA - Beginning Jan 1, the Health Ministry will require all water vending machines to be licensed under Regulation 360C(4) of the Food Regulations 1985. A two-year licence would cost RM150 (S$50), and each licence will only be valid for one ...

Health Ministry wants all water vending machines licensed by Jan 1   The Star Online
Fresh Healthy Vending Secures Record 135 New Franchisee Locations in August 2015   CNNMoney
Water vending machine to require licence from health ministry   New Straits Times Online
Free Malaysia Today   
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The Japan Times
   
Regenerative medicine to get boost from deregulation in Japan   
The Japan Times
On a cloudy morning in the Tokyo suburb of Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Yoshiyuki Sankai points excitedly to a slide of severed spinal cords. They belong to rats, and he has used cell technology to help reconnect the nerves. A multimillionaire whose ...
Hopes for Japan's regenerative therapy after policy boost   The Straits Times

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AsiaOne
   
Plugging the leak in the eye   
AsiaOne
So he was understandably shocked when I broke the news that he had vision-threatening severe proliferative diabetic retinopathy. Unless he underwent immediate surgery, Alan would lose his sight within the next few weeks and eventually go blind. Like ...
Diabetic eye disease screening before age 15 necessary?   Financial Express
At What Age Should Children With T1D Begin Retinopathy Screenings?   Monthly Prescribing Reference (registration)
Diabetic eye disease screening before age 15, an unnecessary burden   Business Standard
News-Medical.net   
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AsiaOne
   
10 deaths confirmed caused by dengue in Taiwan   
AsiaOne
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Ten out of the 12 deaths that underwent preliminary dengue fever examination in Tainan were confirmed as having been caused by the disease, Taiwan's Centres for Disease Control (CDC) stated yesterday. Nineteen deaths in Tainan were ...

Dengue fever cases top 4000   Focus Taiwan News Channel
Suspected dengue deaths total 19 since May: CDC   Taipei Times
CDC announces 19 dengue fever deaths in the latest outbreak   China Post

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Biotechin.Asia
   
Inside nonagenarian athlete, Olga Kotelko's brain – Effects of exercise on ...   
Biotechin.Asia
University of Illinois Beckman Institute researcher Agnieszka Burzynska and her colleagues analyzed the brain and cognition of Olga Kotelko, a 93-year-old track-and-field athlete on the effects of exercise on the brains and cognitive abilities of the ...
Exercise Keeps Brain Young: Researchers   Newsmax
Well | Does Exercise Change Your Brain?   New York Times (blog)

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KSAT San Antonio
   
'Over 800000 children die annually from inadequate breast feeding'   
BusinessDay
Not giving a newly born baby adequate breast milk in the first six months of birth has been identified as the cause of over 800,000 infant deaths every year across the world, as only 38 percent of babies are exclusively breastfed. Oruene Finebone ...
Breast-feeding tips for working mums   AsiaOne
Breast milk, synthetic pot, jail visits among new laws   KSAT San Antonio

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Review examines risks, responses to in-flight medical emergencies   
Reuters
(Reuters Health) - An airplane in flight is one of the worst places to have a medical emergency, even if there's a doctor on board. Medical supplies and drugs are limited. There's often little space for a physician to work or for anyone to render first ...

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Selfie madness: too many dying to get the picture   
Reuters
SYDNEY, Sept 3 The rise of selfie photography in some of the world's most beautiful, and dangerous, places is sparking a range of interventions aimed at combating risk-taking that has resulted in a string of gruesome deaths worldwide. The act of taking ...

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BBC News
   
HIV clinic leak: 'A friend's on the list, he'd never told me his status'   
BBC News
The 56 Dean Street clinic in London sent out the names and email addresses of 780 people who attend HIV services. Patients were supposed to be blind-copied into an email newsletter, but instead a group email was sent. Elliot Herman's seen the list ...
NHS clinic reveals identities of hundreds of HIV-positive patients   Irish Examiner
Sexual health clinic accidentally publishes HIV status of 800 patients   PPP Focus.com
Sky News presenter Kay Burley under fire for calling sexual health centre ...   Express.co.uk
Washington Post   
The Times (subscription)   
Telegraph.co.uk   
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