Category: Health alert
Rare cancer takes more aggressive form in Asians
When Ms Hilmy Chung suffered long bouts of diarrhoea, constipation, lethargy and bone pain in 2010, neither she nor her doctors could pin down the cause. By the time her rare cancer was diagnosed the following year, it had spread […]
Nap Nanny Recliners Recalled Following Infant Deaths
Nearly 150,000 of ‘Nap Nanny Baby recliners’ have faced a recall by four national retailers at the request of the Consumer Product Safety Commission after reports of atleast five infant deaths with the use of these products. Four national retailers, […]
Global study: 65% air pollution deaths occur in Asia
Up to a whopping 65 percent of deaths from air pollution occur in Asia, according to a new global study. The global study also showed pollution is one of the top 10 killers in the world, according to a report […]
New Delhi Multidrug Resistant Bacteria Found in Toronto Hospital
A hospital in Canada detected the presence of New Delhi Metallo-ß-lactamase-1-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (NDM1-Kp), as the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant infections continue to rise. A multidrug resistant bacteria that is resistant to carbapenems, is one of the last lines of antibiotics. […]
Israeli Scientists Track Pollution for 189 Megacities
Using data collected by three of NASA’s high-tech aerosol monitoring satellites, Israeli scientists have tracked pollution trends for 189 megacities, including New York City, Tokyo and Mumbai. Called MODIS-Terra, MODIS-Aqua, and MISR, the satellites were launched by NASA from 2000 […]
One more dead, three sick with mystery virus—WHO
Another person has died of a mysterious respiratory virus and three more cases have been discovered in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the World Health Organisation said Friday. “This brings the total of laboratory-confirmed cases to six,” the Geneva-based UN agency […]
Poor sanitation kills 2.7 mn people a year: UN
Improving sanitation and building more toilets could save millions of lives around the world and would remove an important source of inequality, the UN said Friday ahead of World Toilet Day. “Eliminating inequalities can start in the most unlikely of […]
Diabetes Deaths on the Increase
There are now 70 million people with diabetes in South East Asia and this number is expected to increase by 2030 to 121 million, according to new estimates from the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) today to mark World Diabetes Day. […]
16 patients diagnosed with H1N1 in Riyadh
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia- As many as 16 patients had recently been diagnosed with H1N1 virus in a medical center in Riyadh of Saudi Arabia, Al Hayat newspaper revealed on Sunday. The first case was found 18 days ago, which was […]
Ebola virus found in Borneo, Indonesia
JAKARTA- Indonesian researchers have found evidence of presence of Ebola virus in several Orangutan in Kalimantan island known as Borneo, paper said here on Saturday. The researchers were from Airlangga University’s Avian Influenza-zoonosis Research Center in Surabaya, East Java, in […]
