Category: Community
S Korea offers North help with foot-and-mouth outbreak
SEOUL – South Korea on Monday offered to send vaccine and medical equipment to North Korea to help contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, in a further sign of warming cross-border ties. The offer came days after North Korea confirmed […]
Kidney failure cases increasing rapidly in PH due to unhealthy lifestyle
MANILA- The number of Filipinos suffering from kidney failure is rising annually by an alarming rate of 10 to 15 percent due to their unhealthy lifestyle, the Philippines’ Department of Health (DOH) said Saturday. Dr. Antonio Paraiso, DOH program manager […]
Thousands of Riau residents suffer respiratory illnesses
Clouds of smoke covering Riau province since the end of January are showing no signs of disappearing, causing the number of people suffering from acute respiratory infections (ISPA) to increase. “There is no region free of ISPA patients. The smoke […]
S.Korea ramps up disinfection after foot-and-mouth outbreak over border
South Korea has stepped up disinfection of citizens returning from North Korea after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in pigs in the communist state. Workers in the Kaesong industrial complex jointly run with North Korea, as well as people crossing […]
No more “fast food” in Bolivia: McDonald’s has closed down all its restaurants
Bolivia became the first McDonald’s-free Latin American nation, after struggling for more than a decade to keep their numbers out of ‘the red.’ And that fact is still making news. After 14 years in the nation and despite many campaigns […]
By 2050 China can prevent 12 million smoking deaths: study
Full implementation of a set of neglected anti-smoking policies that China had already agreed to can prevent nearly 13 million tobacco-related deaths in the country by 2050, researchers said on Wednesday. The estimated number of lives saved, more than the […]
Filipino doctors eye India transplant record
MANILA – Even Filipino doctors want to be part of the Guinness book of world records. Celebrating the 31st founding anniversary of the National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI), health officials announced their plan to break India’s record of having […]
Bird flu confirmed to have spread to 11 provinces in Vietnam
HANOI – Bird flu has been confirmed to have spread to 11 provinces in Vietnam with 24 outbreaks, said the website of the Department of Animal Health under Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on Tuesday. The Eleven […]
President calls for eradicating Leprosy
Stressing the need for combating leprosy, President Pranab Mukherjee has called for integrated leprosy services in geographically focused areas to eradicate the disease. He was speaking at a function at the Rashtrapati Bhawan where he presented the International Gandhi Award […]
Tobacco claims lives of over 1 million Indians annualy
A new report recently stated that tobacco products are the number one cause of oral cancer in India, and chewed tobacco products are directly linked to oral cancer. The World Lung Foundation report said more than one million Indians die […]
