2015年1月7日 星期三

2015-01-08 Pakistan Health


The Times (subscription)
   
Testosterone 'aids fight against prostate cancer'   
The Times (subscription)
Boosting levels of testosterone can potentially reverse resistance to hormone treatments for prostate cancer, research suggests. The counter-intuitive strategy, called bipolar androgen therapy (BAT), involves alternating high and low testosterone levels.
Clearwater city manager has prostate cancer   Tampabay.com
Radiation, hormone therapy combine to prolong life in prostate cancer patients   Insidermedicine
Strategy might thwart resistance to a common prostate cancer treatment   Medical Xpress
Bioscience Technology   
Businessweek   
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Newstalk ZB
   
Discovery may help with HIV detection   
Newstalk ZB
Scientists seeking a cure for AIDS say they've found important clues about how HIV manages to skirt detection after being suppressed by drugs. They say the sleeping virus can harbour mutations which help it evade detection by the immune system. They say ...

Scientists get closer to HIV cure   Press TV
Countering HIV's Disguise Inches Scientists Toward Cure   Voice of America
Researchers find clues to how HIV evades detection   The Japan Times
HealthCanal.com   
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SGGP
   
First ever polio injection drive launched in Pakistan   
Business Standard
Health authorities in Pakistan have started administering polio injections for the first time in the country. Authorities have started administering polio injections in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), which is for the first time in Pakistan's history, ...

Pakistan launches first ever polio injection drive in Fata   DAWN.com
Viet Nam switches to injectable polio vaccine in fresh eradication push   SGGP
An unexpected benefit of inactivated poliovirus vaccine   Watching the Watchers.org

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Business Recorder
   
Medical camps in 'high-risk' UCs from Jan 10 to 13   
Business Recorder
image KARACHI: Commissioner Karachi Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui has said that four-day free medical camps will be set up in the city's nine "Super High Risk Union Councils" from January 10 to 13 for maternal and child health. He stated this while presiding ...


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Mind-Altering Drugs: Are Statins the Cause of Widespread Brain Dysfunction?   
Center for Research on Globalization
Diseases of the brain are rampant in America today, and evidence suggests that a popular class of pharmaceutical drugs may be largely to blame. They're known as statins, and the science behind how they function in the body reveals that these powerful ...

Statin treatment associated with muscle pain   Pakistan Observer
Statins: A Second Opinion   KSAT San Antonio

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AIDS claims 29 lives in Sindh last year   
Pakistan Today
At least 29 people died of HIV/AIDS across the Sindh province in 2014, said Provincial Programme Manager, Sindh AIDS Control Programme (SACP) Dr Sikander Ali Shah on Tuesday. Dr Shah told PPI that 29 people expired last year due to AIDS throughout ...


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Times of India
   
Ebola fight has coordination problem, says new UN mission chief   
Times of India
MONROVIA: The three west African countries worst hit by the Ebola epidemic should be leading the response against the killer virus, the UN's new mission chief on the disease said Wednesday, condemning "a problem of coordination" in the fightback.
Ebola-hit countries miss treatment, burial targets: WHO   Channel News Asia
Ebola: A day with the burial team   BBC News
Ebola Kills Nearly 500 Health Care Workers   NBCNews.com
Sin Chew Jit Poh   
Business Standard   
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Press Herald
   
Want to live until the 23rd century? Ask a bowhead whale   
The Star Online
Scientists unravel the DNA of the bowhead whale, which boasts a lifespan topping 200 years, and discover surprising secrets behind its longevity. Scientists reveal the genetic blueprint for the bowhead whale and its genome, and discover it to be chock full of ...

The secret of Bowhead Whale's longevity revealed - (full-timew)   Full-Time Whistle
The bowhead whale lives over 200 years. Can its genes tell us why?   YubaNet
200-Year-Old Whale May Give Clues to Human Longevity   Philly.com
The Ticker   
The Columbian   
Maine News   
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CBS Local
   
Scientists: New Antibiotic Kills Drug-Resistant Germs   
CBS Local
ATLANTA (CBS Atlanta) – For years, health officials have been warning us that new strains of drug-resistant bacteria are a threat to global health. But now researchers say they have discovered a new compound that can wipe out germs that cause even the ...

New antibiotic a 'game changer'   9news.com.au
First new antibiotic in 30 years could be key to beating superbug resistance   The Independent
New drug beats antibiotic-resistant bugs   CBS News
The Times (subscription)   
Voice of America   
Huffington Post   
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West Texas News
   
Six Americans die every day because of alcohol poisoning   
West Texas News
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a report on alcohol poisoning on Tuesday. The report stated that on an average six people die every day because of alcohol poisoning. The report states that about 76% of the alcoholic deaths of ...

6 people die of alcohol poisoning everyday   SMN Weekly
CDC: Alcohol poisoning kills 6 a day, mostly middle-aged men   Cherokee Tribune

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