2014年8月20日 星期三

2014-08-21 South Africa Health

  Independent Online   
Clashes in Liberia as Ebola fear spreads  Independent Online
Liberian security forces monitor a group of protesters after clashes in the West Point neighbourhood of Monrovia on August 20, 2014. Monrovia - Police in the Liberian capital fired live rounds and teargas on Wednesday to disperse a stone-throwing crowd ...

Liberia police fire on protesters as West Africa's Ebola toll hits 1350   Reuters
Clashes Erupt as Liberia Sets a Quarantine   New York Times
50000 quarantined in Liberia slum to contain spread of Ebola   The Seattle Times
Washington Post   
The Nation   
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  Counsel & Heal   
Tax soft drinks to cut obesity in South Africa: Wits  Times LIVE
A suggested tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) may reduce obesity in 220,000 adults in South Africa, research by the University of the Witwatersrand has found. Save & Share. Tweet · Email · Print. "By instituting a 20 percent tax... it is predicted to ...

Study supports fizzy drink tax proposal   Independent Online
Tax on beverages may reduce obesity: Wits   The New Age Online
Sugar Tax on Drinks May Reduce Obesity: Study   Counsel & Heal
Eyewitness News   
Medical Xpress   
Health24.com   
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  Yahoo South Africa   
South African doctors give wrong patient heart surgery  Yahoo South Africa
A private hospital in South Africa admitted Wednesday that it had carried out heart surgery on the wrong patient after a name mix-up. Local media said 83-year-old Rita du Plessis was being treated for a respiratory infection, but ended up in theatre for a ...

Wrong patient gets heart surgery   News24
S/Africa: Heart surgery performed on wrong patient   StarAfrica.com

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  Belfast Telegraph   
Breastfeeding helps with post-natal blues  Stuff.co.nz
Analysis of 14,000 births has found women who planned to breastfeed and successfully did so were half as likely to become depressed after birth as those who always intended to use a bottle. Those who aimed to breastfeed but were unable to do so were the ...

Breast is best - including in public: Nearly 70% of Brits are comfortable with a ...   Daily Mail
Could failure to breastfeed cause depression?   NHS Choices
Breastfeeding And The Right   Daily Caller
Herald.ie   
Zenopa   
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  Times of India   
Europe's Ebola-Fueled Racism  Daily Beast
A Berlin building locked down after an African woman faints. An African man with a nosebleed removed from a mall in Brussels. With Ebola panic spreading, racial profiling could be next. When a black woman from Africa collapsed at a business meeting in ...

UK and Wellcome offer $10 mln for emergency Ebola research   Reuters
All flyers from Africa to get Ebola scan   Times of India
African Media Tries to Educate Public About Ebola   Voice of America
Toronto Star   
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Cracks in oversight should be a concern - Madonsela  News24
Johannesburg - Cracks and weaknesses in public oversight should be of concern to Parliament, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela's office said on Wednesday. It said in a statement that Madonsela told a workshop organised by two portfolio committees that ...


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  Independent Online   
Metal workers maintain lock-out  Independent Online
Johannesburg - Some of the National Employers' Association of SA's (Neasa) members are continuing their lock-out of workers who participated in the recent metal industry strike, it said on Wednesday. “We are still continuing with the lock-out because our ...

Neasa continues lock-out   Citizen

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  Travel Daily News International   
West Africa: Lift flight bans for Ebola - Iata  Independent Online
AIRLINES should maintain services to regions hit by Ebola, the International Air Transport Association (Iata) said yesterday after more carriers put flights on hold. The industry should just screen passengers at airports in infected areas, apply rigorous ...

Ebola must not halt airlines, Iata urges   BDlive
Airlines Urged to Heed WHO's Ebola Advice on Maintaining Flights   Jakarta Globe
IATA: African Aviation Day sets Agenda for enhanced intra-African connectivity   CAPA - Centre for Aviation
TravelBizMonitor   
TravelMole   
RIA Novosti   
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Campaign for assisted suicide heads to ConCourt  News24
A trip through beautifu South Africa and who better to show us around than Desmond Tutu? Now R216.00 buy now. Cape Town - Campaign group Dignity SA has revealed plans to take the debate over legalising assisted suicide to the Constitutional Court.
Being at One With Desmond Tutu   Huffington Post

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  Channel News Asia   
UPDATE 1-Illness with Ebola-like symptoms kills several in Congo - locals  Reuters
(Adds quotes, details). KINSHASA Aug 20 (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo has sent its health minister and a team of experts to the remote northern Equateur province after several people died there from a disease with Ebola-like symptoms, a local ...

Illness With Ebola-Like Symptoms Kills Several In Congo   Huffington Post
Illness with Ebola-like symptoms kills several in Congo - locals   Reuters UK
Ebola Outbreak: Has the Ebola Virus Reached Congo?   Chinatopix

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