2015年5月14日 星期四

2015-05-15 South Africa Health


Independent Online
   
Dignity Dreams project changes lives   
Independent Online
Johannesburg - A girl without access to sanitary pads or tampons can miss up to 60 days of school a year. Some of these girls from poor areas use socks, rags, towels, leaves, grass or even school notebook pages, Deputy Minister in the Presidency Buti ...

Campaign to Restore Dignity to Girl Learners   AllAfrica.com
Sanitary pad project gives poor and rural girls dignity   The New Age Online

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BizNews
   
May 14, 2015 in Age Well // Deadly medicine: doctors who don't know when to stop   
BizNews
Doctors have always had a name for it: iatrogenic disease – from the Greek word, iatros (doctor). It means doctor-caused disease . It's a fancy name for doctor error. Its incidence is unacceptably high worldwide, given that doctors are supposed to heal, not ...

Doctors ARE putting patients at risk by doling out pills like they are Smarties   Daily Mail
Doctors warned of 'over-treating' patients   BBC News
Choose Wisely: Why Doctors Need To Stop 'Over-Treating' Patients And Writing ...   Medical Daily

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U.S. News & World Report
   
Men in Red May Seem Aggressive, Angry   
U.S. News & World Report
THURSDAY, May 14, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Men may be regarded as angry and aggressive when they wear red clothes, a new study suggests. "We know that the color red has an effect on the human brain. This is embedded in our culture, for example ...

Men Wearing Red Signal Anger, Aggression: Study   International Business Times
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MEN WEAR THE COLOR RED   Sky Valley Chronicle
Red is the colour, not blue say scientists   Telegraph.co.uk

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Daily Mail
   
Pregnant women who exercise are less likely to have a Caesarean study finds   
Daily Mail
Pregnant women who exercise cut their risk of having a Caesarean section by a fifth, according to new research. They are also almost a third less likely to give birth to a large baby, the study found. Previous studies show larger babies are more likely to have ...

Exercise during pregnancy lowers risk of C-section, too-big baby   Times LIVE
Exercise key to lower risk of C-section, too-big baby   The Malaysian Insider
Maternal Exercise May Lower Risk of High Birth Weights, C-Sections   ShortNews.com

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Mail & Guardian Online
   
Lessons from Nigeria on Ebola   
Mail & Guardian Online
The outbreak proved how important it is to respond to infectious diseases with expertise and a unified plan. Nip it in the bud: (Above) an official at a Nigerian school takes a pupil's temperature using an infrared digital laser thermometer, to monitor disease ...

First confirmed Ebola case in Italy   Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
Tony Blair Commends Sierra Leone in the fight against Ebola   Sierra Express Media

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The Japan Times
   
How DNA sequencing is transforming the hunt for new drugs   
The Japan Times
CHICAGO – Drug manufacturers have begun amassing enormous troves of human DNA in hopes of significantly shortening the time it takes to identify new drug candidates, a move some say is transforming the development of medicines. The efforts will help ...


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Cancer Network
   
Personalised approach helped cure more children with kidney cancer   
Daily Times
A personalized treatment targeting a patient's individual genetic makeup helped cure more children with a rare form of kidney cancer, researchers said on Wednesday. The findings, based on two studies led by Dr. David Dix of the British Columbia Children's ...

Tailoring Therapy Ups Cure Rates for Children With Rare Kidney Cancer   Cancer Network
Augmented therapy improves outcomes for children with high-risk Wilms' tumor   Healio

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Wall Street Journal
   
$30000 Baby: Couples Take Out Loans to Conceive   
Wall Street Journal
Miryam Gerdine and her husband, both 44 years old, are expecting their first child in June, but the happy occasion comes with a price tag: The Maryland couple spent $30,000 on in vitro fertilization and other procedures. Delayed childbearing has allowed ...

Sometimes making babies is not as easy as it seems   BusinessWorld Online Edition
Infertility Challenges Can Be Reduced - Expert   AllAfrica.com
Updated Fertility Scorecard Highlights State-by-State Disparities in Access to ...   PR Newswire (press release)

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Independent Online
   
The right to die… or live   
Independent Online
Cape Town - After living with terminal colon cancer for the past seven years Carol Tuck, 44, of Port Elizabeth says she has no hope of living beyond five more years. Doctors have told her that at some point she will lose the control of her bowels and that the ...


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iAfrica.com
   
'Baby boomers' in worsening health   
iAfrica.com
An in-depth study conducted in the US has indicated that the "baby boomer" generation is more stressed and in worse health than 10 years ago – even though life expectancy has increased. "Health United States 2014" – which was led by the US Department ...

'The Best Thing I've Done': Woman On Choosing To Be A Single Mom   CBS Local

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