Category: Community
Indonesia to face higher prevalence of blindness, sight disorders: official
JAKARTA- A senior official at the health ministry said that with the growing increase in life expectancy, Indonesia will experience a prevalence of blindness and sight disorders as one of the main health problems affecting the elderly, local media reported […]
Pain-Free Labor Becoming Reality for Chinese Women
A study has revealed some dramatic findings from a 10-year initiative called the “No Pain Labor N’ Delivery China Mission.” In a two-year period during 2009-11, and among 20,000 laboring women in one Chinese hospital: • The labor epidural rate […]
More Singaporeans suffering from ‘low vision’
SINGAPORE – She looks just like a regular student but, for Ms Christina Au, the world is one great blur. The 22-year-old SIM student suffers from hereditary optic neuropathy, a disorder of nerves and visual pathways that results in blurred […]
Water-Borne Amoeba Kills 10 In Pakistan
After a rare water-borne “brain-eating” amoeba killed 10 people in four months, authorities in Pakistan’s largest city have launched an urgent investigation. The water company and health officials monitoring water in Karachi, home to 18 million people, have been ordered […]
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,” […]
