2015年9月25日 星期五

2015-09-26 South Africa Health


Times LIVE
   
Banting comes to Cape Town's townships   
Times LIVE
In a poor township of Cape Town, Nasreen Riley cooks up butter-fried chicken livers in a full-cream tomato sauce as part of the controversial "banting" diet often seen a preserve of the middle-classes. Cutting out bread, rice, pasta and sugar -- and ...
Can Banting fix obesity in SA townships?   Health24
S African township tastes 'elite' fat-loaded diet   Gulf Times

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San Angelo Standard Times
   
Drugs, alcohol often used on mines to cope with pressures of daily life   
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Drug and alcohol abuse among mineworkers is an ongoing battle, as drugs are often used as a coping mechanism to deal with stress, unhappiness or the pressures of daily life, drug and alcohol testing distributor ...

Substance abuse funding must increase   Mount Desert Islander
A concept for treatment   San Angelo Standard Times

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Leadership Newspapers
   
WHO Welcomes Okonjo-Iweala's Appointment As Gavi Chair   
AllAfrica.com
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has congratulated Nigeria's former minister of finance, Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on her recent appointment as chair-elect of the Board of Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI). She will take up the ...

Civil society drags Okonjo-Iweala before EFCC over refund of $2.2m to GAVI   DailyPost Nigeria
US$2.2 million GAVI refund: Group petitions EFCC, demands probe of Okonjo-Iweala   Premium Times
Campaign #AskGAVI To Force GAVI Alliance Return Nigeria's $2.2 Million, Or ...   SaharaReporters.com
Daily Times Nigeria   
THISDAY Live   
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Next Avenue (blog)
   
Why Cook With Cannabis?   
Next Avenue (blog)
(Editor's note: Pot became a symbol of the 1960s and 1970s. When you smoked it, you were saying: I'm not The Man. You could wear its leafy symbol on a T-shirt, imbibe it from a bong or bake it into brownies. Now, decades later, marijuana has become ...

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Awoko
   
Kenya Airways resumes West Africa flights banned due to Ebola   
Reuters Africa
NAIROBI, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Kenya Airways has resumed flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone after Kenyan health officials lifted a ban placed last year due to the Ebola virus. The carrier, one of the biggest in Africa, stopped flying to Monrovia and ...
Sierra Leone News: US Govt. hands over EOC office to Salone   Awoko
WHO releases update on Ebola outbreak   BioPrepWatch
Kenya Airways Has Resumed West Africa flights that were banned due to Ebola   Oxford Herald

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Citizen
   
No kidding! 'Goat Man' takes break from being human   
Citizen
A British man who wanted to “take a holiday from being human” is sharing his experiences after spending time in the Swiss Alps — living as a goat. London (AFP). Thomas Thwaites, a graphic artist from London, used specially made prosthetic limbs to ...

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CBC.ca
   
Volkswagen's emissions & Martin Shkreli's ambitions: BUSINESS WEEK WRAP   
CBC.ca
Volkswagen dominated the news cycle this week, with news that the German automaker has been installing software on its diesel powered cars aimed at acing emissions tests while surreptitiously belching out up to 40 times the legal limit of nitrogen ...
Drug Price Gouging?   Reason (blog)
Old-Drug Price Hike 'Perversion of the System,' Biogen CEO Says   Bloomberg
Multiple factors cause high prescription drug prices in US   San Angelo Standard Times
Lexington Herald Leader   
Washington Post (blog)   
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New York Times
   
New Drugs Prove More Effective in Treatment of Kidney Cancer, Studies Find   
New York Times
New studies of two drugs, showing that each works better than the standard treatment for advanced kidney cancer, should lead to changes in patient care, researchers said on Friday. One study, of the drug nivolumab (sold as Opdivo), was stopped ahead of ...

Bristol's Opdivo boosts kidney cancer survival beyond two years   Reuters
Exelixis Announces Positive Results from METEOR Phase 3 Pivotal Trial of ...   MarketWatch
Two new kidney cancer drugs 'work'   BBC News
South Wales Guardian   
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People Magazine
   
1.5-Pound Preemie Born on Cruise Ship at 23 Weeks: 'It's a Miracle He's Here ...   
People Magazine
She's not exaggerating: Haiden was born at just 23 weeks old, a time frame that put his chances of survival between 15-30 percent. Complicating matters: The fact that his parents, Emily and Chase, were on a cruise ship 100 miles from land and 14 hours ...

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Dispatch Times
   
John Healey MP goes pink in Parliament for charity   
Dispatch Times
“Being a model is not only a chance for me to get glamorous, I also hope it helps others see there is life after breast cancer and you can feel fabulous and feminine again”. Heather Williams remembers the early days of her breast cancer treatment.
Breast cancer ribbons could be a scheme   wwlp.com
Turn your office pink for breast cancer   NYSE Post
Isles MSP wears it pink for for breast cancer   Steelers Lounge (blog)
Pulse Headlines   
York Daily Record/Sunday News   
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