Category: Community
3,000 Cambodians killed by AIDS per year: official
PHNOM PENH – Approximately 3,000 HIV/AIDS patients in Cambodia die per year, Ieng Mouly, chairman of the National AIDS Authority, said Thursday. “Some 3,000 patients have died naturally each year after they have contracted the disease for years,” he told […]
10 million elderly in Thailand
Thailand’s number of elderly has reached 9.93 million (15%) in this year reports Thai News Agency (TNA). A recent study discovered that 5% of the elderly are healthy while the other 500,000 suffer from chronic diseases such as osteroarthiritis, hypertension […]
Singapore, a nation of pill poppers?
For many Singaporeans, it is not an apple but a pill a day that keeps the doctor away. According to market research firm Euromonitor International, people here spent $638 million on vitamins and dietary supplements last year, an increase of […]
China to open first high security bio laboratory
BEIJING – China’s first high-security biosafety laboratory will be ready for use by December, in a move hailed as a “crucial” moment in the fight against pathogens such as the Ebola virus, officials said Tuesday. The facility, which has been […]
When ‘remedies’ make things worse
KUALA LUMPUR – Soy sauce, toothpaste, butter, egg white and salt – these are just some of the things that ill-informed parents apply to burns suffered by their children. “Parents often don’t know what to do when children are burnt […]
Slim waist fad causing huge problems in China
According to the hospital, only 52 people were diagnosed with eating disorders like anorexia nervosa and bulimia from 1983 to 2001. Figures from the Shanghai Mental Health Center showed that the number of anorexia nervosa patients has quadrupled from a […]
China pledges ‘harshest penalties’ for food-safety violations
China has vowed to hand out the “harshest penalties” to food safety violators and to further reform the food and drug safety administration, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. Vice-Premier Wang Yang made the comment during an inspection tour of […]
Experts unveil plan to end rabies globally via dog vaccinations
Rabies experts on Thursday unveiled a blueprint for eliminating the pernicious disease, which almost always is caused by bites from rabid dogs and kills tens of thousands of people a year worldwide, through a program of mass dog vaccinations in […]
Singapore tops in global healthcare efficiency ranking: Survey
SINGAPORE – The Republic came out tops in a global healthcare efficiency ranking, beating previous incumbent Hong Kong to first place as the Singapore Government continues to increase its expenditure on medical services and the ecosystem to cope with an […]
Philippine farmers reject Golden Rice as a corporate scheme to indebt farmers and destroy food security
In the Bicol Region of the Philippines, hundreds of farmers, scientists and consumers are gathering in opposition to the commercialization of Syngenta’s GM Golden Rice. Feeling as if their property is being overtaken and their food system hijacked, the farmers […]
