2015年8月21日 星期五

2015-08-22 Malaysia Health


Malaysia Chronicle
   
Man loses smartphone to new FB friend on first date   
The Star Online
A 29-YEAR-OLD man from Batu Pahat, Johor, lost his smartphone to a woman he had befriended through Facebook, China Press reported. Zheng Wen Kai said he got to know the woman two weeks ago and decided to invite her out for dinner for the first time ...

Man embarrassed after Facebook date swipes mobile phone   The Malaysian Insider

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Council heads must be made accountable in battle against dengue – Mohamed ...   
The Malaysian Insider
As a resident of Bukit Antarabangsa with almost zero case of dengue in the past, we are now inundated with reports of the fever in our neighbourhood. It is now almost weekly that we have a new case. It occurred to me that we are no longer safe. Not ...
The losing battle against Dengue — Mohamed Rafick Khan   Malay Mail Online

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Daily Beast
   
This Machine Vomits for Science   
Daily Beast
Researchers couldn't get people to sign up for a study about the spread of norovirus, so they built their very own puke machine. Shop ▾. Members of Lee-Ann Jaykus's lab waited near the finish line of the Krispy Kreme Challenge. But the Jaykus lab from ...
New vomit-tracking machine shows how disease spreads   Malay Mail Online
Norovirus-detecting machine created to further analyze norovirus transmission   Times Gazette

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TV Newsroom
   
Light to Moderate Alcohol Intake Escalates Breast Cancer Risk in Smokers   
TV Newsroom
The study followed the participants for almost 30 years with health surveys conducted every few years by the Harvard School of Public Health and the Brigham and Women's Hospital. People who have a family history of cancer should especially avoid ...
Risk of some cancers increased in women, male smokers with light/moderate drinking   Sentinel Republic
Even light to moderate drinking linked to cancer risk   Rapid News Network
Even Moderate Alcohol Consumption linked to Cancer Risk   Maine News
New York Daily News   
Hindustan Times   
Medscape   
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Fox News
   
Big win for researchers as female 'Viagra' pill gets approval   
The Standard Digital News (satire) (press release) (registration) (blog)
A pill for women with sexual dysfunction, similar to Viagra used by men, has been approved by a drug regulator in the United States. The drug, Addyi, will be prescribed for patients with a condition known as acquired, generalised hypoactive sexual ...
Regulators appear to have bowed to public pressure over a 'lifestyle drug'   The Independent

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NECN
   
Boston Business Journal Report: 'Master Switch' Behind Obesity?   
NECN
Jessica Bartlett explains that doctors from MIT and Harvard may have found a way to override the body's evolutionary habit of storing fat. (Published Friday, Aug. 21, 2015). Massachusetts doctors may have found a way to override the human body's habit ...
Manipulating Obesity Gene Could Help Control Weight, MIT And Harvard   Junior College
Fat gene revolutionizes weight loss: FTO drug could bypass diet and exercise   Examiner.com
Harvard and MIT researchers think they've cracked the obesity code   Boston.com
Press Examiner   
BBC News   
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U.S. News & World Report
   
Jimmy Carter to teach Sunday school just days after brain cancer treatment   
CNN
Carter adjusts his headphones at a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela, in January 2003. He proposed a referendum on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's presidency or an amendment to the constitution as a way to end the political crisis in the ...

Jimmy Carter, facing cancer with grace   Washington Post (blog)
President Carter is battling melanoma, which is often more severe than other ...   New York Daily News
As cancer treatment begins, Jimmy Carter plans to scale back on work   Peoria Journal Star
Dispatch Times   
myfoxny.com   
MinnPost   
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The Sun Daily
   
Dementia may be stabilising in some countries   
The Sun Daily
THE occurrence of dementia and Alzheimer's disease may have stabilised in some wealthy nations, according to a study released Friday. A review of data from Sweden, the Netherlands, Britain and Spain showed the percentage of the population with ...

Your Brain, Your Disease, Your Self   New York Times
Study identifies nine risk factors of Alzheimer's disease   Fox News
Dementia in decline, latest research suggests   Channel 4 News (blog)
New York Daily News   
BBC News   
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CBS Local
   
West Nile cases down in Louisiana compared to last year   
WAFB.com
West Nile Virus cases are down in Louisiana compared to last year, according to data released by the Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH). At this time in 2014, there were 52 human cases statewide. So far this year, there are only 20. Two of those ...

Suffolk reports 9 more mosquito samples testing positive for West Nile virus   Newsday
Tulsa County witnesses First Human Case of West Nile Virus   NYC Today
Will County reports spike in West Nile mosquitoes   Chicago Tribune
Dallas Morning News (blog)   
CBS Local   
Fort Worth Star Telegram   
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Irish Examiner
   
Josh, 9, first to get small bionic hand   
Irish Examiner
A nine-year-old who was bullied for having only one hand has become the first boy in the UK to be fitted with a new child-sized bionic hand. Josh Cathcart, from Dalgety Bay in Fife, was tormented by classmates for his disability but now he said he ...
Josh Cathcar becomes first child in the UK to get a bionic hand   Daily Mail
Pioneering bionic hand will help Josh, 9, to play with Lego   The Times (subscription)
Kid Gets Awesome New Bionic Hand, Reminds Us Not Everything is Garbage   Gizmodo
SlashGear   
The National   
BBC News   
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