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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 […]
One million diabetics by 2050
By 2050, Singapore may have as many as one million diabetics. Every one in two people, by age 70, will be diabetic – up from one in three today. Of the adult population, 15% will suffer from the disease, compared […]
China renews quarantine requirement to block new coronavirus
China’s top quarantine authorities on Sunday renewed its order to boost quarantine measures to prevent the entry of a new type of coronavirus following a World Health Organization (WHO) report. The new coronavirus has left a Qatari citizen dead and […]
Woman dies after taking illegal health product
SINGAPORE – A woman in her 70s passed away in August this year from complications of a life-threatening skin reaction after she took illegal health products. According to the Health Sciences Authority (HSA), she had consumed an illegal health product, […]
Malaysia bans two traditional medicinal products
PETALING JAYA – The public is advised to stop buying and using traditional product MYMEN PLUS Capsule 400mg after it was found to contain a scheduled poison. Health director-general Datuk Seri Dr Hasan Abdul Rahman said the product was found […]
