Category: Health
Fukushima kids fatter as radiation fears cut exercise
Children in Fukushima are getting fatter as outdoor activities have been cut in the area due to radiation fears after last year’s nuclear disaster, a Japanese [...]
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Asia’s long-stay schemes lure foreigners
Like many Japanese mothers, Ritsuko Kawasaki fretted over the health and safety risks of remaining in Japan after 2011′s earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters. So [...]
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Reducing the maternal mortality rate in Indonesia
As the deadline for reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, Indonesia is facing problems in meeting its target for halving the maternal mortality rate by [...]
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‘Condom’ spearheads fight against Thailand’s new Aids crisis
Thailand’s ”Condom”, Mechai Viravaidya, who has saved millions of lives by raising awareness of HIV/Aids, says his country is facing a new crisis from the [...]
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FACTBOX – What is female genital mutilation?
The United Nations passed a resolution on Thursday urging countries to ban female genital mutilation (FGM) – a practice that puts millions of girls a year at risk of [...]
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UN urges countries to ban female genital mutilation
The United Nations general Assembly adopted a resolution on Thursday urging countries to ban female genital mutilation, calling it an “irreparable, irreversible [...]
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Poultry scare hits Yum Brands’ reputation
Yum Brands, which owns the popular fast-food chain KFC, saw its reputation in China shaken on Wednesday by allegations that its suppliers injected antiviral drugs and growth [...]
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Fake malaria drugs fuel rise of drug-resistant disease
Counterfeit drugs are a growing scourge around the world. They’re generating millions of dollars in revenue for organised crime and fuelling the rise of drug-resistant [...]
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Tiny air pollutants kill thousands, cost billions in China
Microscopic pollutant particles in the air have killed some 8,600 people prematurely this year and cost $1 billion in economic losses in four Chinese cities, according to a [...]
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Tiny air pollutants kill thousands, cost billions in China
Microscopic pollutant particles in the air have killed some 8,600 people prematurely this year and cost $1 billion in economic losses in four Chinese cities, according to a [...]
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Burma wants to scale down Dawei
Myanmar wants to scale down the size of its deep-sea port and industrial estate in Dawei, but Thailand fears a decrease could affect the feasibility of related projects. [...]
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Philippine birth control fight not over: bishops
Philippine Catholic church leaders vowed Tuesday to overturn a birth control bill after lawmakers passed landmark legislation to make sex education and birth control more [...]
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US team to study drug-resistant malaria in Burma
The University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers will use the new funding to track the spread of artemisinin-resistant malaria and train local investigators in [...]
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Asia’s drive for better diabetes control
More than 4,000 experts in diabetes research and medicine from all over Asia met last month at a conference in Kyoto, Japan, where a new mandate called the Kyoto Declaration [...]
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Toddler death adds to Indonesia’s avian flu toll to 160: ministry
The recent death of a toddler aged 4 years old in Bogor, West Java province has added to casualties from bird flu to 160 from 192 cases found in Indonesia, a statement [...]
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