Category: Top Story
Top concerns for Asia: Mental Health, Obesity, NCDs
Mental health, obesity and non-communicable diseases are growing threats and should be among development targets being negotiated at the United Nations between 2015 and 2030, according to a statement issued by experts representing nine Asian countries and Australia at a […]
Global malaria fight needs greater resources to ensure success: UN officials
UNITED NATIONS- UN officials on Thursday said that much more is needed to prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths a year from malaria while financing has increased substantially and enabled great progress in the fight against the disease. While more […]
Integrated healthcare
LIKE most countries in the region, healthcare in Pakistan is delivered through a mixed public-private system. While private healthcare provision was initially on a small scale, it has grown exponentially over the years, so much so that according to a […]
Winning the battle against hepatitis
HEPATITIS B and C are major health hazards in the country that are often overlooked. Hepatitis B has already infected chronically about 16.7 % or 7.3 million adults. This means that one out of seven Filipinos are living with the […]
Many Asian countries ignoring looming Osteoporosis crisis, says IOF
SINGAPORE – A new report launched Thursday by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) shows osteoporosis is a looming crisis throughout Asia Pacific with the number of fracture sufferers to rise dramatically in the coming decades. Produced with the support of […]
What India can teach the rest of the world about living well
India has been described by some traditional texts as Sa Prathama Sanskrati Vishvavara, the first and supreme culture in the world. To this day, the South Asian country remains a hotspring of ancient wisdom on mind-body health and spirituality. This […]
United Nations predicts HIV-AIDS could be eradicated in the Asia-Pacific within 15 years
The United Nations says the “end of AIDS” in the Asia-Pacific is achievable within the next 15 years, but the organisation’s regional special envoy has warned against complacency. “Many countries are progressing. There are only four, five countries where we […]
Bangladesh outperforms Asian neighbours despite low spending on health care
Exceptional improvements in the survival of infants and children under 5 years of age, life expectancy, immunisation coverage, and tuberculosis control in Bangladesh are part of a remarkable success story for health in the South Asian country, according to a […]
Consortium to develop natural materials for heart regeneration gets EU funding
MAJOR new EU funding for research into heart disease has been announced by a group led by Ireland-based RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) and AMBER (Advanced Materials and Bio-Engineering Research). Receiving EUR8.7 million in total funding (EUR6.8 million […]
WHO Confirms: Air pollution causes cancer
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the specialized cancer agency of World Health Organization (WHO), recently classified outdoor air pollution as carcinogenic to humans. After reviewing the scientific literature on the subject, the IARC Monographs Program concluded that […]
