2015年7月7日 星期二

2015-07-08 Pakistan Health


Around 7 million drug addicts in Pakistan, Senate told   
DAWN.com
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Interior and Narcotics Control was told Monday that around seven million people in Pakistan are drug addicts, while 700 people die every day in the country due to drug-related complications. The committee ...


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Digital Journal
   
Pakistan 'Sweet Homes' children suffer food-borne illness   
Digital Journal
Islamabad - More than 180 children at a home for orphans in Pakistan were rushed to three different hospitals Sunday after becoming ill right after reportedly eating "substandard" food for breakfast. The Islamabad orphanage, Pakistan Sweet Homes, has ...

Pakistan Sweet Homes' children return after food poisoning episode   Pakistan Today

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Pune Mirror
   
Smartphone used to detect eye diseases   
Pune Mirror
Scientists in Mexico have developed a software that can detect eye diseases without requiring an ophthalmologist in the vicinity. Once completed, they plan to release the program as an app. Researchers at the Medical and Surgical Center for Retina have ...

Smartphone App Identifies Eye Conditions, Directs Patients to Specialists   Medgadget.com (blog)
New app to detect eye diseases early   Andhra Wishesh
App to detect eye disease early   IANS
Pakistan Tribe   
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Times of India
   
'Affordability of tobacco products sees 15% rise'   
Times of India
NEW DELHI: Despite higher tobacco taxes, the affordability of tobacco products has increased in India by around 15% between 2008 and 2014, according to latest estimates of the World Health Organization (WHO). The reason, the agency says, is that ...

CVS Health Leaves US Chamber of Commerce Over Smoking Stance   Wall Street Journal
CVS Health quits US Chamber of Commerce over tobacco stance   Reuters
CVS Leaving US Chamber of Commerce in Tobacco Tiff   New York Times

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Daily Mail
   
Paper Clip: Pace of aging is different for different people   
The Indian Express
By Daniel W Belsky, Avshalom Caspi and Others. India's population is young, but the global population is aging, driving up age-related disease morbidity. Anti-aging interventions can help cut disease and extend population productivity. But there is ...
Scientists crack secret of eternal youth   The Guardian Nigeria (satire) (press release) (blog)
Some people get older three times faster than others – study   RT
You may be older than you think: Study of 1000 38-year-olds shows 'biological ...   National Post
OregonLive.com   
Huffington Post   
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Cornell Chronicle
   
Stress-fighting proteins could lead to asthma treatments   
Cornell Chronicle
This image illustrates XBP1-deficient bone marrow-derived eosinophils without amyloid structures. The nucleus is colored in blue, and specific eosinophil proteins are stained red. Weill Cornell Medical College investigators have discovered the precise ...

Stress-fighting proteins show hope for asthma cure   Web India
Stress-fighting proteins could be key to new treatments for asthma   Medical Xpress
Public Release: 6-Jul-2015 Stress-fighting proteins could be key to new ...   EurekAlert (press release)

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Irish Examiner
   
Liberia: Dog Suspected in New Ebola Case Tests Negative for the Virus   
New York Times
A dead dog suspected of being the possible source for the re-emergence of Ebola in Liberia has tested negative for the disease, health officials said Tuesday, citing initial findings. Liberia's first victim of the virus since the country was declared ...
World Health Organisation slammed on Ebola response   Sydney Morning Herald
Panel calls WHO unfit to handle a crisis like Ebola   TODAYonline
Panel: Politics among reasons for botched UN Ebola response   Salt Lake Tribune
Irish Examiner   
Los Angeles Times   
The Sun Daily   
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Daily News & Analysis
   
New study sheds light on how children inherit anxiety from parents   
Daily News & Analysis
If you wonder that whether your anxious behaviour will affect your child or not then the answer is probably yes, as a new study has claimed that anxious parents are more likely to have anxious offspring. A prefrontal-limbic-midbrain circuit is ...
Brain Scans Suggest Anxiety Is Hereditary   Daily Beast
Children inherit parents' anxiety too   The Express Tribune
Study sheds light on how kids inherit anxiety from parents   Financial Express
Drug Discovery & Development   
Laboratory Equipment   
Focus News   
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ABC News
   
Heroin-Related Deaths Quadruple As Drug Epidemic Continues to Impact US   
ABC News
The heroin epidemic continues to sweep the U.S. with heroin-related deaths quadrupling in just over a decade according to a new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the report the CDC found that heroin-related overdose ...

Heroin use rising among women and wealthy   CBS News
Why More Women Are Turning to Heroin   The Atlantic
Heroin Use Increasing Among Women And Wealthy   CBS Local
wtvr.com   
KOCO Oklahoma City   
Huffington Post   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
Benefits of breast cancer screening overestimated   
Telegraph.co.uk
Routine breast screening does not save as many lives as previously thought, scientists have concluded. Although previous research has found that mammography programmes could reduce breast cancer mortality by up to 25 per cent, new data suggests it is ...

Study casts doubt on breast cancer testing   The Guardian
Breast screening benefits overstated   The Times (subscription)
Mammography benefits overestimated, review says   Medical Xpress

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