Category: Community
China to improve rural students’ nutrition
BEIJING- China plans to build enough school canteens to provide safe and nutritional meals for all primary and junior high school students in impoverished rural regions by 2015. According to a circular, jointly released Saturday by the ministries of education […]
India, Pakistan Teams Join Hands To ‘Bowl Out Polio’
In a bid to eradicate polio the Indian and Pakistan cricket teams join hands to “bowl out polio” when they clash for the third One-Day International in New Delhi today. “We need to ensure a world free of polio paralysis […]
Philippine birth control law faces first challenge
MANILA – A Catholic couple has asked the Philippines’ top court to stop a historic birth control law, their lawyer said Thursday, in the first of many legal challenges church leaders have vowed against the measure. The petition was filed […]
Grassroots clinics improve access to medical treatment
BEIJING- Zhang Changrong’s favorite treatment in a community clinic in Beijing’s southern suburb involves soaking her feet in hot water that contains traditional Chinese herbal medicines. It takes the 59-year-old woman, who has had a rapid heart beat for years, […]
Drug trials in India ‘causing havoc to human life’
NEW DELHI – India’s Supreme Court said Thursday that unregulated clinical trials of new drugs were causing “havoc” in the country as it ordered the health ministry to monitor any new applications for tests. The comments were made during a […]
Cambodia on the path to eliminating measles: WHO
PHNOM PENH – Cambodia is moving closer to the nationwide elimination of measles with the National Immunization Program reporting zero cases for a full 12 months in 2012, according to a joint statement by the World Health Organization ( WHO) […]
UP Cold Wave Death Toll Rises to 92
Death toll in Uttar Pradesh due to the cold wave in North India continues to rise with more than 92 people losing their lives due to cold. Foggy weather disrupted rail, road and air traffic at several places. The fog […]
9 Palestinians died of H1N1 virus over 2 weeks: medics
RAMALLAH- Nine Palestinians have died of H1N1 virus in the West Bank over the last two weeks, Palestinian officials confirmed Saturday. Asaad Al-Ramlawi, Director of Primary Health Care in the Ministry of Health, told Xinhua that according to the ministry’s […]
Pakistan’s Measles Toll Exceeds 150 Mark
With measles claiming seven more children Sunday in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh, the number of deaths due to the disease reaches 154 in the month. Citing Urdu TV channel Dunya, Xinhua said the disease broke out during the last […]
Suspected norovirus outbreak kills four in Japan hospital
TOKYO – A suspected norovirus outbreak has killed four people and infected almost 100 others at a hospital in the Japanese city of Yokohama south of Tokyo, officials said. Four patients aged between 80 and 97 died of breathing problems […]
