2015年5月21日 星期四

2015-05-22 South Africa Health


Citizen
   
Elderly man drowns in KZN swimming pool   
Citizen
A 73-year-old man has drowned at the Virgin Active gym pool in Westville, KwaZulu-Natal earlier today. ER24 spokesperson Russel Meiring said paramedics and other services arrived at the scene and found the elderly patient lying on the floor next to the ...

Elderly man drowns at gym   Independent Online
Elderly Man Drowns in Virgin Active Swimming Pool   AllAfrica.com

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International Business Times
   
Zimbabwe Uses The Most Condoms In The World, Reduces HIV Infections   
International Business Times
Zimbabwe has the highest condom usage in the world, according to the state-run National Aids Council. Getty Images. Zimbabwe's condom usage now tops that of any other country in the world, with over 109 million condoms used in 2014. These safe sex ...

Zim uses most condoms in the world   New Zimbabwe.com
Zimbabwe has highest condom usage in the world   The Zimbabwe Daily
Zim has highest condom usage in the world   News24

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Eyewitness News
   
First for Africa: Groote Schuur implants world's smallest pacemaker   
Eyewitness News
Cape Talk & Tamsin Wort | Consultant Cardiologist & Electrophysiologist at Groote Schuur and UCT, Doctor Ashley Chin, explains how the world's smallest pacemaker was implanted. Email; Print ...

Study conducted at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation finds World's ...   TCTMD (registration)
SA hospital first to implant world's smallest pacemaker   Health24

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Times LIVE
   
The $1m drug has arrived   
Times LIVE
Glybera is given just once and targets a disease that afflicts about 200 people in Europe. Gene therapies aim to fix or knock out defective genes, or add those that are missing, to cure diseases. File photo. Image by: MICHAEL KOOREN / REUTERS ...

World's Most Expensive Medicine Faces New Hurdles   Bloomberg
German cost watchdogs look askance at uniQure's $1.4M gene therapy   FiercePharma

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Nature World News
   
Video Gaming May Lead to Higher Risk of Neurological Disorders   
Nature World News
You may choose to ignore your mom when she tells you to quit playing video games after hours of staring at the television, but she really has your best interest at heart. Video gaming, according to a new study, may lead to a higher risk of developing certain ...

Alzheimers risk for gamers   Independent Online
'Video games damage brain'   Times LIVE
Excess video games may increase Alzheimer's risk   Times of India
The Guardian   
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Capital FM Kenya
   
Two Prisoners Die of Cholera in Mombasa   
AllAfrica.com
Two remandees have died and 30 others been admitted following a cholera outbreak at Shimo la Tewa prison in Mombasa. Erick Odhiambo and Hamisi Samba were serving sentences for stealing and rape, Coast Prisons boss James Kodeny told the media ...

May 20 world news summary at 1530 GMT   spyghana.com
Two dead, 30 hospitalized after cholera hits Shimo la Tewa prison   Coastweek

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Malawi sex workers to get damages over forced HIV tests   
The New Age Online
A Malawi court has ruled that 11 prostitutes who were forced to take HIV tests by police six years ago will be awarded damages, a court official said Thursday citing a judgement. The sex workers were rounded up in 2009 in the southern city of Mwanza, hauled ...


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spyghana.com
   
How to Reduce Anaemia in Women, Teenage Girls - Nutritionists   
AllAfrica.com
Reputable nutritionists have urged Nigerian women and teenage girls to eat more healthy related diets to reduce iron deficiency anaemia even as they said that women of child bearing age and people with chronic diseases are at greater risk of developing ...

Unilever to educate mothers on importance of iron-rich diets   spyghana.com
How to reduce anaemia in women, teenage girls, by nutritionists   The Guardian Nigeria

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BDlive
   
Criminal cases roil US food industry   
BDlive
A CONAGRA Foods unit agreed to pay a record fine and plead guilty to a federal misdemeanour charge stemming from a 2006-07 salmonella outbreak. The rare criminal case spotlights how stepped-up enforcement of food-safety laws is shaking up the ...

ConAgra To Pay $11.2m To Settle Salmonella Case   Sky News
ConAgra to pay $11.2M to settle salmonella criminal case   Marietta Daily Journal

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Toronto Sun
   
The Surprising Health Risk of Being Pregnant With A Boy   
Health.com
WEDNESDAY, May 20, 2015 (HealthDay News) — A baby's gender appears to affect a mother's risk for diabetes during pregnancy — called gestational diabetes — and type 2 diabetes after pregnancy, a new study suggests. Researchers reviewed data from ...

Pregnant with a boy? You may be at greater risk of gestational diabetes: Study   Peterborough Examiner
New Group Targets Child and Adolescent Diabetes Care   Scoop.co.nz

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