2014年9月16日 星期二

2014-09-17 Pakistan Health

  NPR   
Obama warns Ebola crisis poses a potential threat to global security  ABC Online
ELEANOR HALL: The United States government has announced that it's now taking a military approach to West Africa's Ebola outbreak. The Obama administration is sending up to 3,000 troops to help deal with what the World Health Organization is calling a ...

Australia pledges $7m more for Ebola fight   The Australian
Senators Want Broader U.S. Response to Ebola   Huffington Post
Ebola battle: Obama deploys troops   Independent Online
NEWS.com.au   
Herald Scotland   
Morocco World News   
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  DAWN.com   
Sindh's 12th polio case of year confirmed  DAWN.com
KARACHI: Soon after Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah resolved during a meeting with the Gates Foundation officials that Sindh would make polio a thing of the past next year, the province received confirmation from Islamabad on Tuesday that a child, ...

Karachi's 11th polio case of the year surfaces   The News International
Sindh to be made polio-free by 2015, says Qaim   Daily Times
Sindh to freeze wheat issue price at Rs 3450/100 kg   Business Recorder

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  Mynextfone   
Something Stinks: Libs, Conservatives Have Different, Distinct Smells  Personal Liberty Digest
This is too easy. There's a new study out that asserts conservatives and liberals don't smell the same. Not only that – the study claims that sensitive noses can pick up on the smell of politically like-minded people, and differentiate that smell from that of people ...

Liberals & conservatives sniff out like-minded mates by body odour   Daily Times
Politics can be the “pits!” Liberals and conservatives prefer the body...   Mynextfone
Liberals, conservatives favor body odor of like-minded voters   New York Post

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  Vancouver Sun   
Drugs for mild hypertension may not be necessary: study  Business Standard
Experts have raised concern over unnecessary treatment of mild hypertension in low risk people, saying the benefits of drugs for such patients are 'still open to question'. Dr Stephen Martin and colleagues, who presented their findings at the 2014 Preventing ...

Revealed -- medicines for mild hypertension may not be needed   TheHealthSite
You May Not Really Need Your Blood Pressure Medication   Parade
Report slams antihypertensives prescribing   6minutes
Free Press Journal   
Delhi Daily News   
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  Premium Times   
Tobacco firms' interference biggest threat to control effort  Premium Times
The interference by tobacco companies has been identified as the “single greatest threat” to efforts to control tobacco use across the globe. The Network for Accountability of Tobacco Transnationals, NATT, disclosed this during a training on reporting the ...

U.S. No Longer Leads In Tobacco Wars   PR Newswire (press release)
CCP can help government enforce anti-tobacco convention: experts   Business Recorder

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  FileHippo News   
Will Ferrell to Play Games for Cancer Fundraiser  SegmentNext
Hollywood actor and comedian Will Ferrell is going to spend October 26 playing video games online with the intent to raise enough contributions for two children cancer charities. The fundraiser, being dubbed Will Ferrell's Super Mega Blast Max Charity ...

Comedian Will Ferrell Calling out to Gamers for Cancer Battle   FileHippo News
Play video games with Will Ferrell. Help charities. Join SuperMegaBlastMax ...   Tech Times

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  Wall Street Journal   
Global Crusade Against Dengue Begins in Indonesia  Wall Street Journal (blog)
Prof Scott O'Neill inspects the first Wolbachia mosquitoes to be released in the first world-wide trials of the dengue control method. Credit: Eliminate Dengue Yogya. A team of scientists hoping to eliminate dengue fever is using the Indonesian city of ...

Japan Experiences First Dengue Outbreak In 70 Years   Asian Scientist Magazine
Number of dengue virus infections in Japan rise to 126   Kuwait News Agency
Japan dengue case count at 124 in 17 prefectures   Outbreak News Today
GlobalPost   
The Japan News   
The Nation   
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  Reuters UK   
Post-op, George the goldfish doing 'swimmingly'  Sydney Morning Herald
The owner of George the goldfish — who underwent surgery to remove a head tumour last week — said the little fish was coming along "swimmingly". Lyn Orton, the goldfish's owner, said George was expected to make a full recovery. "He's back in the pond ...

George the goldfish has brain surgery   Times of India
George the Goldfish Swims After $200 Surgery to Remove Life-Threatening Tumor   Us Magazine
Goldfish named George gets life-saving tumor surgery   CBS News
Times of Oman   
The Straits Times   
Fox News   
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  AsiaOne   
Urine test for cervical cancer virus offers alternative to smear  AsiaOne
LONDON - A simple urine test for the virus that causes cervical cancer could offer a less invasive and more acceptable alternative to the conventional cervical smear test, researchers said on Tuesday. In a study comparing the accuracy of urine sample testing ...

New and less invasive check has the potential to replace cervical smear tests   Herald Scotland
New Study Suggests HPV Urine Testing Could Soon Be Available   Dumb-Out
Roach: A discussion of the HPV vaccine   Alexandria Town Talk
Irish Examiner   
ITV News   
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  The Nation   
Child mortality drops in 2013: UN  The Nation
UNITED NATIONS : The child mortality rate around the world has dropped by nearly half since 1990, the United Nations said Tuesday in its latest report showing a new decrease in 2013. Last year, more than six million children died before reaching the age of ...

One million newborns die within 24 hours of birth: UN   Zee News
Death rate for children under 5 has plunged, UN reports   MiamiHerald.com
Global child mortality rates halved - new data   New Zealand Herald
NPR (blog)   
Vancouver Sun   
Businessweek   
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