Category: Community
250 senior citizens receive free eye checks on World Sight Day
SINGAPORE – Today, more than 200 underprivileged Singapore senior citizens received free eye screenings to mark World Sight Day 2012. The senior citizens were tested for pathology and refraction, and those in need of eyesight correction were also prescribed spectacle […]
Anti-pneumonia Drive Launched in Pakistan
Pakistan began to vaccinate 5.5 million children against pneumococcal disease to fight pneumonia on Tuesday. Pneumonia kills tens of thousands of youngsters in the country every year. Pakistan is the first country in South Asia to launch a campaign against […]
Database for Organ Transplants
China to have a national database to record and distribute human organ donations, said an official. The health ministry has drafted an organ distribution regulation, spokesperson Deng Haihua said, adding that the regulation must pass a trial phase first, reported […]
Concern Over Health Risks In South Korea
The South Korean government has decided to designate the southeastern city of Gumi as a “special disaster” zone, as the area is affected by a toxic chemical leak. Some eight tons of hydrofluoric acid leaked from chemical maker Hube Global’s […]
Bone-loss patients ‘taking wrong drugs’
SINGAPORE – Osteoporosis, the “porous bone” disease, is on the rise in Singapore but as many as one in two patients could be taking potent medicines that may do little for their condition. The long-term medication given to most patients […]
Stem Cell Researchers Win Nobel Prize in Medicine 2012
Shinya Yamanaka of Japan and John B. Gurdon of Britain won the Nobel Medicine Prize for their work on stem cells, said the jury. The pair were honoured “for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent,” […]
Clinics rush to warn patients of tainted steroid
Health providers are scrambling to notify patients in nearly two dozen states including New York that the routine steroid injections they received for back pain in recent months may have been contaminated with a deadly fungal meningitis. It became apparent […]
Living funerals for the terminally ill
SHANGHAI, China – William Chan was quietly carried into the funeral hall on a brown wooden couch. Chan’s funeral at the International Funeral Parlour in Hong Kong’s Hung Hom in July was complete with prayers, music, mourners, friends and family. […]
Thai officials face ban on eating raw fish
THAILAND – Public Health deputy minister Surawit Khonsomboon yesterday backed the idea of prohibiting state officials from eating raw fish and raw fermented fish, saying they would face a disciplinary punishment for doing this. Surawit, who was checking Nong Bua […]
Bhutan Aims To Become 100% Organic
Bhutan, the Himalayan kingdom which is famed for seeking “happiness” for its citizens is aiming to become the first nation in the world to turn its home-grown food and farmers 100 percent organic. The tiny Buddhist-majority nation wedged between China […]
