Category: Community
Low condom use blamed for new HIV cases
JAKARTA – At daylight, the street outside Tanah Abang railway station is an illegal parking lot. By night, it turns into a red-light district where dozens of women offer themselves for paid sex. Since the government decided to close down […]
Cash Awarded To Indian Inventor For Development Of Braille Phone
$50,000 was awarded to a 29 year old Indian inventor to help him make a new low-cost mobile phone for the blind that uses a Braille display. Sumit Dagar, an industrial designer from New Delhi, beat thousands to win the […]
UN: Fukushima Cancer Risk Very ‘Low’
A preliminary report by the World Health Organization has said that there is a low risk that cancer rates will rise among residents near Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant. The report, released Sunday, said the possibility that cancer risks will […]
HIV/AIDS cases in Yunnan exceeds 100,000
KUNMING- Southwest China’s Yunnan Province has logged more than 100,000 cases of HIV/AIDS since it began taking records of the condition, the chief of local AIDS watchdog told Xinhua on Tuesday. As of the end of October, a majority of […]
Crib Deaths Back in West Bengal
Ten babies have died in the Malda Medical College and Hospital, taking the toll to 25 since Saturday. Crib deaths are back in West Bengal’s hospitals.. While families of the dead claimed negligence led to the deaths, the hospital authorities […]
Taiwan-led team identifies 3 genes leading to lung cancer
TAIWAN – An international research team led by Taiwanese medical professionals has identified three susceptibility loci that are connected to an increase in the chance of nonsmoking Asian women contracting lung cancer. Chao A. Hsiung, director of the Institute of […]
Swabbing pythons to save lives
He swabs mouths of pythons for a good reason – to set a standard for treatment at hospitals when it comes to non-poisonous snake bites. “Most hospital emergency rooms have in place a protocol to treat venomous snake bites. However, […]
Online help on caring for elderly
SINGAPORE – Efforts to care for the elderly will get a boost when a series of mobile apps and online resources are rolled out. Borderless Healthcare Group (BHG), a firm which offers health-care technology, media and telecom services, worked with […]
Chinese healthcare equipment maker devising ways to sell devices abroad
David Yin, managing director of Europe at the Shenzhen-based Mindray Medical International Ltd, recalled that his team’s first order from overseas was the result of “an accident”. In 2000, a British company’s attention was caught by the “made in China” […]
In Odisha Dengue on Decline
An official has said the dengue appears to be on a decline in Odisha with only two new cases reported in the state in the last two days, taking the total number of those affected by the disease to 2,196 […]
