2015年10月8日 星期四

2015-10-09 Singapore Health


The Straits Times
   
951 patients, healthcare workers to be screened for hepatitis C, almost double ...   
The Straits Times
A total of 951 people will need to be screened for the hepatitis C virus in the wake of an outbreak that has possibly killed at least four patients. ST PHOTO: ALICIA CHAN. Published. 1 hour ago. More. Share Tweet Linkedin Email Pin Google+ Reddit Print.
Multi-dose vials come under scrutiny   AsiaOne
SGH Hepatitis C cluster: Half of patients in affected wards contacted   Channel News Asia
More to be called in for hepatitis C screening   TODAYonline
The New Paper   
The Online Citizen   
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Channel News Asia
   
No haze-linked newsprint: SPH   
AsiaOne
SINGAPORE Press Holdings (SPH) said yesterday that it does not purchase any of its newsprint supplies for its newspapers from the five companies being probed for links to forest fires in Indonesia which have caused the haze. The media organisation also ...

Singaporeans deliver 21000 masks to haze-hit Kalimantan   Channel News Asia
Helping Kalimantan at the heart of the haze   BBC News

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AsiaOne
   
Businessman aims to 'translate' TCM to the world   
AsiaOne
During the 1970s, doctor Zhang Tingdong, who focused on research into blood disease, heard that the poison arsenic, a kind of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), was used by an old practitioner of TCM to treat cancer in northeast China's Heilongjiang ...


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AsiaOne
   
Ex-newsman fit as a fiddle at 75   
AsiaOne
A healthy mind in a healthy body - that is my secret to maintaining my fitness level even as a septuagenarian. At 75, I am blessed for I am free of chronic health problems and I still consider myself fit as a fiddle. By nature, I am a fighter against ...

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AsiaOne
   
Bear spits out human   
AsiaOne
A hunter tracking elk in the Montana mountains says he fended off an attacking grizzly bear by shoving his arm into its throat to induce a gag reflex that would frighten it away, state wildlife managers report. Chase Dellwo, 26, was hunting with a ...
Wildlife experts warn Montanans to stay safe in nature   ABC FOX Montana News

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The Straits Times
   
Antioxidant supplements 'will not lower cancer risk'   
The Straits Times
Nobel laureate James Watson says antioxidant supplements do not contain the "solution to health", despite what many commercial companies claim. PHOTO: ST FILE. Published. 3 hours ago. More. Share Tweet Linkedin Email Pin Google+ Reddit Print.

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AsiaOne
   
Smoking set to kill one in three young men in China, study finds   
AsiaOne
One in three of all the young men in China will eventually be killed by tobacco unless a substantial proportion of them succeed in quitting smoking, researchers said on Friday. "Without rapid, committed, and widespread action to reduce smoking levels ...
Smoking set to kill one in three young Chinese men as country faces 'epidemic'   The Guardian
Studies say 1/3 of young men in China to die from smoking   Philippine Star

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Channel News Asia
   
US cancer doctors drop pricey drugs with little or no effect   
Channel News Asia
U.S. oncologists, aware that patients are paying more of the costs of expensive cancer drugs, are increasingly declining to prescribe medicines that have scant or no effect, even as a last resort. POSTED: 08 Oct 2015 13:25. PHOTOS. A woman holds the ...
More Cancer Docs Spurn Pricey Drugs   NBCNews.com
Oncologists Refuse to Prescribe Expensive Medicine   Mid-Day Daily

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Luxury birthing clinics spur cesarean 'epidemic' in Brazil   
Kansas City Star
Thais Faria sank into a leather love seat, relaxing under the ministrations first of a masseuse, then a manicurist and finally a hairdresser-cum-makeup artist. Not 24 hours after her daughter was born via cesarean, Faria was being pampered at an ...

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Live Trading News
   
What 'runners' high' tells us about drug addiction   
Futurity: Research News
The pleasure and reward centers of the brain are activated similarly by dangerous drugs as well as by exercise, which is why therapies to treat drug addiction often include lots of exercise. Scientists say activating these pleasure and reward receptors ...
Runner's High   Men's Fitness
Runners, 'Potheads' Similar High: Extremely active rats become lazy when they ...   SportAct

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