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Spring in Japan: Beautiful blossoms and hayfever misery
TOKYO – Spring in Japan brings explosions of pink and white cherry blossoms that provide a beautiful backdrop for picnics across this nature-loving country. But it also heralds a mass outbreak of facemasks and speciality goggles intended to fend off […]
PhilHealth to help make gov’t hospitals self-sustaining
Health Secretary Enrique T. Ona has expressed optimism that government hospitals would become self-sustaining as the Aquino administration was pushing for more PhilHealth enrollment, particularly among the poorest of the poor. Ona, who was here to speak at the “soft […]
Do more or fat chance Malaysia will reduce obesity, govt told
KUALA LUMPUR – The Government needs to be more serious in battling obesity, the Malaysian Association for the Study of Obesity says. Its president Prof Dr Mohd Ismail Noor said that creating awareness and public education were not enough. “At […]
1/4 of older Taiwanese have sleeping problems
TAIPEI, Taiwan – One in four people aged 65 and above has sleeping problems in Taiwan, a newspaper reported yesterday. A survey of almost 800 people aged 65 and above by the Taiwan Society of Sleep Medicine (TSSM) shows that […]
China needs comprehensive tobacco advertising ban: WHO
BEIJING- The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that China needs a comprehensive ban on tobacco advertising in order to reduce the number of smokers. Bernhard Schwartlander, WHO representative in China, made the comments in a statement following a […]
Guinea says has contained Ebola outbreak, death toll rises
Guinea said on Wednesday it had stopped an outbreak of deadly Ebola fever from spreading beyond the country’s remote southeast, although the number of deaths from suspected infections rose to at least 63. U.N. agencies and medical charities such as […]
Nearly 4,000 cases of measles reported in first two months of 2014 – DOH
MANILA —Almost 4,000 measles cases have been reported during the first two months of the year, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Wednesday. Based on the Measles Surveillance Report of the DOH – National Epidemiology Center, a total of […]
Seoul to limit plastic surgery ads
SEOUL – The South Korean capital Seoul is to restrict the use of plastic surgery adverts on public transport, officials said Wednesday, after complaints that they were fuelling an unhealthy obsession with body image. South Korea, and particularly Seoul, has […]
Video games linked to aggressive behaviour in kids
Youths who play video games are more likely to think and act in aggressive ways, suggested a study of more than 3,000 schoolchildren in Singapore. The research, published in JAMA Pediatrics, a journal of the American Medical Association, was based […]
India must stop ‘irrational’ TB treatments: MSF
New Delhi — India must stop its doctors prescribing “irrational” treatments to cure tuberculosis, medical humanitarian group Medecins Sans Frontieres said Saturday, warning the practice is increasing drug-resistant strains of the disease. India is already home to the highest number […]
