Category: Community
Medical burden still heavy for Chinese
BEIJING – Medical reform fiscal measures have lined the pockets of hospitals and companies but not done much toward advancing the country’s healthcare system, experts said on Wednesday. Since restructuring measures began in 2009, medical spending has increased by more […]
Hygiene practices should improve to control hepatitis E infection
Contamination Of Water And Food Persist and increases the number of death in India. Several patients are suffering from a rebound of the disease after getting cured from hepatitis E infection. Surujal, who died on Sunday, had tested positive for […]
Municipality destroys three tonnes of unsafe products
Abu Dhabi – Nearly three tonnes of beauty and consumer products that did not meet public health and safety standards were recently confiscated and destroyed, the Abu Dhabi Municipality said. The items were seized during random checks on beauty parlours, […]
South Korea suspends US poultry imports
South Korea has suspended imports of all U.S. poultry and poultry products because of an outbreak of bird flu at a chicken farm in the western state of Oregon. South Korea’s Agriculture Ministry said in a statement Sunday that the […]
Seeing the doctor, overseas: Medical tourism booms in Asia
KUALA LUMPUR – The lines snaking into Bangladesh’s overwhelmed hospitals are often so long, says Nusrat Hussein Kiwan, that they extend into the street outside – too many patients seeking too few quality doctors. So, through a Google search, the […]
Cambodian PM orders probe into mass HIV infections
PHNOM PENH – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday ordered experts to thoroughly look into the case of mass HIV infections in a remote commune of northwestern Cambodia and called on the public not to panic over the incident. […]
Cancer patients testing drugs on mouse ‘avatars’
Scientists often test drugs in mice. Now some cancer patients are doing the same — with the hope of curing their own disease. They are paying a private lab to breed mice that carry bits of their own tumors so […]
Instant noodles recalled as Taiwan food scare widens
TAIPEI: Taiwanese authorities on Thursday ordered a leading food company to recall two flavours of instant noodles over fears they contain a banned dye as the island’s latest food scandal deepened. Health officials said sauce packages in the two flavours […]
South Korea increases efforts to contain foot-and-mouth outbreak
South Korea is intensifying efforts to contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease by inoculating all hogs in affected areas, the agriculture ministry said in a statement on Thursday. South Korea earlier this month confirmed a fresh case of foot-and-mouth disease […]
Japan lab cannot repeat ground-breaking cell finding
TOKYO – Some of Japan’s top scientists have been unable to reproduce results of what was once billed as a ground-breaking stem cell study, but which spiralled into a scandal that included a respected researcher’s suicide, reports said Thursday. The […]
