en-za-hotdailynews: 2015-05-27 South Africa Health

Legal drinking age to be raised?
iAfrica.com
The Department of Trade and Industry (dti) is seeking to change the legal drinking age in South Africa from 18 to 21 years of age. The change is part of the department's proposed National Liquor Policy, which has been opened to the public for comment.
South Africa plans to raise drinking age to 21   The Spirits Business
South Africa may raise its drinking age to 21   Moneyweb.co.za

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Times LIVE

Call for better treatment of bipolar disorder
Times LIVE
Bipolar disorder‚ or manic depression‚ is a mental illness that affects a persons moods‚ energy and ability to function. It is characterised by mood swings that shift between periods of extreme “highs” and “lows”. File photo. Image by: Gallo Images/Thinkstock ...

SA observes National Bipolar Awareness Day   Eyewitness News
Extreme mood illness can be treated   Grocott's Mail Online

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Daily Mail

Hope for heart failure patients as 'pioneering treatment' helps organ heal ITSELF
Daily Mail
A revolutionary treatment whereby the heart is encouraged to heal itself after a heart attack is being developed by scientists. They believe it could help millions around the world living with a condition whereby their heart has been severely weakened, for which ...

Protein 'can speed up heart repair'   Independent Online

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Business Recorder (press release) (blog)

Ebola set to persist in 2015, but funds for aid are lacking: WHO
Business Recorder (press release) (blog)
image GENEVA: The Ebola outbreak in Guinea and Sierra Leone is expected to take all of 2015 to stamp out and may persist even longer because of dwindling financing, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday. Guinea and Sierra Leone ...

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Daily Sun

SA considering legalizing sale of rhino horn stockpile
Daily Sun
The government of South Africa is yet to decide whether it will seek a two-year window in which to sell off its rhino horn stockpile as a means of halting or slowing the slaughter of the animals by poachers. This comes as the belief persists in some circles that ...

'Stop Using Rhino Horn' denies link with stats on horn buyers in Vietnam   Tuoitrenews
WildAid warns against legalising rhino horn trade   The New Age Online

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The Independent

The eye-feasting parasite that can get in through your contact lens
The Independent
A recent eye infection suffered by 18-year-old Nottingham University student Jess Greaney is the kind of story that fills us with horror. Greaney had keratitis, an inflammation of the cornea, caused by Acanthamoeba castellanii, a parasite that was living and ...

Teenager Forced to Stay Awake for Four Days After a Parasite Started to Eat Her ...   First to Know
Teen has to stay awake for four days to fight eyeball-eating amoeba   Times LIVE
A British Teen Contracted Amoeba Because of Poor Contact Lens Care   Rapid News Network

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The Independent

'Humans could probably live forever as a machine, potentially' says vague ...
The Independent
Dr Hannah Critchlow of Cambridge University has offered the most hesitant support yet for the possibility of humans becoming immortal through future technology, saying that she thinks it's a possibility we could make a motherboard advanced enough.
Someone just claimed that left-handed people really ARE more creative   Metro
You could live forever as a computer   Times LIVE
Humans could download brains on to a computer and live forever   Telegraph.co.uk

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St. George Daily Spectrum

Autism Fast Facts
Gant Daily
Autism or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) incorporates a group of neurodevelopmental disorders, causing impaired communication skills and social skills. ASDs generally start before three years of age and last a lifetime, but early intervention plays a role in ...

Explore autism spectrum disorder market size, share, analysis and forecasts to ...   WhaTech

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