Category: Health
Vietnam law bans smoking in public
Vietnam has passed a law banning smoking in public places and all tobacco advertising, an official said Tuesday. The law, passed by 440 out of 468 national assembly deputies [...]
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Obesity factor: scientists calculate the weight of the world
Curious how much collective extra weight the world is carrying due to the global obesity problem? In data published on Sunday, scientists have calculated it to be 3.9 million [...]
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Samsonite’s Tokyo Chic hit by HK health scare
US luggage maker Samsonite said Monday it had withdrawn some of its suitcases from Hong Kong stores after a consumer group found they contained high levels of chemicals that [...]
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Toxic capsules help the medicine go down in China
Hou Zhihui breaks open a cold-medicine capsule, pours the powder on to a piece of steamed dough and folds it together. He passes the miniature bun to a colleague who pops it [...]
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Secondhand smoke tied to more health effects: study
People regularly exposed to secondhand smoke may have increased risks of dying from strokes and emphysema as well as from heart disease and lung cancer, according to a study [...]
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Dengue vaccine results from Thailand trial expected by September
The efficacy of the first dengue fever vaccine is expected to be known by September when results of tests on thousands of Thai children will be revealed, the pharmaceutical [...]
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Internet led to global ‘explosion’ of fake drugs
The rapid growth of Internet commerce has led to an explosion of counterfeit drugs sold around the world, with China the biggest source of fake medicines, pharmaceutical [...]
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China confirms forced abortion case after uproar
Chinese authorities confirmed Thursday that a woman was forced to abort seven months into her pregnancy, several days after her plight came to light when images of her [...]
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Possible dengue fever vaccine being tested in Thailand
A French multinational pharmaceutical company is testing a possible vaccine for dengue fever in Thailand. The Paris-based Sanofi firm says it hopes the 3 dose vaccine will be [...]
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‘Forced abortion’ picture causes uproar in China
Graphic images posted online showing the bloody corpse of a baby whose mother was allegedly forced to terminate her pregnancy at seven months have caused an uproar in China. [...]
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Later reproduction may extend offspring’s life: study
The offspring of fathers and grandfathers who reproduced later in life could enjoy life-extending genetic benefits, including being able to father children at an older age, a [...]
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Groundbreaking Discovery of the Cellular Origin of Cervical Cancer
A team of scientists from A*STAR’s Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) and Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) together with clinicians from Boston’s Brigham and [...]
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China to licence copies of patented medicines
Chinese intellectual property laws have been overhauled to allow the nation’s drug makers to make less expensive copies of medicines still under patent protection. The [...]
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Cambodia: Malaria gains fragile
Two years after some $22 million in donor funds were pumped into malaria control along the Cambodia-Thailand border to fight off suspected resistance to treatment, health [...]
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TB survey in China finds drug resistance rife
Health experts are calling for faster testing of the 9 million people worldwide estimated to be infected with tuberculosis each year after a study in China found [...]
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