Category: Features
Society and ageing: an interview with Gerard Lenstra
Recently, Healthcare Asia conducted an interview with Mr Gerard Lenstra from NOM, the Investment & Development Agency for the Northern Netherlands to discuss regarding the issue ageing in today’s society. Below is our interview with him. 1. Healthcare Asia: Can […]
These superfoods may boost your brain power
Super foods are packed with nutrients that have health-enhancing properties ranging from prevention of heart disease and cancer to improving skin tone and boosting memory and brain function. Their health benefits may be overstated but they do provide the recommended […]
How to deal with: fractures
What is fracture? • A broken or cracked bone • Occurs when pressure is applied to bone • Occurs with / without displacement of bone fragments Types of Fracture • Open fracture: Skin breaks causing open wound • Closed fracture: […]
U.S. doctors, hospitals reap $6.5 billion from drug and device makers: report
U.S. doctors and research hospitals collected nearly $6.5 billion in payments for services rendered to pharmaceutical and medical device companies in 2014, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments report released on Tuesday. The report, […]
Implanted drug improves tolerance of sunlight in rare condition
A skin-darkening drug can help protect against serious pain in people with a rare inherited condition that makes them flee sunlight like movie vampires, according to tests in Europe and the U.S. The condition, known as erythropoieticprotoporphyria, causes severe burning […]
Ebola crisis: Liberia’s new outbreak spreads
Authorities on Tuesday quarantined an area on Tuesday where the teenager’s corpse was found but two more cases have been announced A second case of Ebola has been confirmed in Liberia, following the death of a teenager from the virus […]
Death toll from Pakistani heatwave reaches over 800
The death toll from a heatwave in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province has passed 800, hospital officials say, as mortuaries reached capacity. At least 780 people have died in Karachi, BBC Urdu reported. Another 30 deaths were reported elsewhere in the […]
The man who saw time stand still
It started as a headache, but soon became much stranger. Simon Baker entered the bathroom to see if a warm shower could ease his pain. “I looked up at the shower head, and it was as if the water droplets […]
Report Shows Widespread Mistreatment by Health Workers During Childbirth
They are slapped and pinched during labor, yelled at, denied pain medicine, neglected and forced to share beds with other women who just gave birth. And that is just a partial list of the abuses and humiliations inflicted on women […]
Fish Poisoning More Common Than Believed
Poisonings from a toxin carried by barracuda and other sport fish have been seriously underestimated in Florida, according to a new study — and the problem is far more common in fishing communities around the world than has been recognized, […]
