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HBI China 2015 to Promote Sino-foreign Business
The healthcare reform has brought about development opportunities for the Chinese healthcare market, and new challenges for the domesticand international hospital construction industry. TheHospital Build & Infrastructure China (HBI China) Exhibition & Congress that will be held from 23 – 25 May 2015 at Dalian World […]
Check out these diets for seniors
When a panel of health and nutrition experts ranked 35 diets for Best Diets 2015, they considered not only weight loss, but also whether diets were heart healthy, good for controlling diabetes and easy to follow. Now, two panel members discuss which U.S. News-ranked diets […]
Close your eyes to remember better
Some people close their eyes, as though lost in thought, when they’re trying to remember some detail from the past. A new study in Legal and Criminal Psychology suggests that they’re on the right track — study participants who closed their eyes remembered more […]
Egypt convicts doctor of female genital mutilation
A doctor who performed female genital mutilation on a 13-year old girl which led to her death have been sentenced to two years and three months in prison. The doctor, Raslan Fadl, was initially acquitted of the 2013 death of […]
Undergoing surgery? Get a second opinion
Here are tips on searching for options. – Start with the doctor recommending the traditional surgery, asking what will happen if you don’t have the operation and if there are alternative treatments, either medical or surgical. – Ask your primary […]
‘Autisms’, not autism, please
Researchers are saying that there are many types of autism and therefore to call it ‘autisms’ and not autism. “We believe a better term to use is ‘the autisms,’ or ‘the autism spectrum disorders’ (that is, plural),” Dr. Stephen W. […]
Pfizer slashes vaccine price for poor
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer have slashed the price of the pneumococcal vaccine Prevenar 13 by 6 percent to $3.10 per dose in poor countries as part of a commitment to the GAVI global vaccines alliance. Pfizer’s move comes as GAVI holds […]
Spooked and paralysed? It’s just a sleep disorder
It was an ordinary night, but Salma, a 20-year-old student at The American University in Cairo, had a particularly frightening experience. She woke up, unable to move a muscle, and felt as though there were an intruder in her bedroom. […]
Exercise in moderation for better results
Skip the traditional advice to exercise 150-minute weekly,for smaller doses of exercise. Researchers say current exercise guidelines are unrealistic and argue that doctors should sometimes advise small increases in activity instead. They warn the 150-minute weekly target is beyond the reach of […]
Avoid listeria during pregnancy
With food recalls and listeria outbreaks occurring regularly, it’s important for pregnant women to protect themselves. Your physician probably told you to nix unpasteurized cheeses, deli meats and sushi while you’re pregnant to avoid listeriosis, a serious infection caused by […]
