2015年4月29日 星期三

2015-04-30 Uganda Health


Empire State Tribune
   
Puberty girls in Uganda to receive cervical cancer vaccination   
Empire State Tribune
Because school girls ages between 10 to 13 years “are not yet sexually active and therefore not yet exposed to the virus”, this is the ideal age to be vaccinated for cervical cancer in a nationwide effort to stop the disease in Uganda which cost around $1.34m.
All 10-13 year old girls to be vaccinated against cervical cancer   New Vision
Girls in 10-13 age group to receive vaccination against Cervix Cancer under ...   News Tonight Africa

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YourTango
   
Got The HPV Vaccine? You Might Need Another Shot!   
YourTango
New study finds that the original vaccine dosn't cover all the strains of HPV. You might feel victorious for finally getting caught up with your vaccinations, including the one for the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), but you might not be out of the woods just yet!
Local doctor says teens are undervaccinated for HPV   KTBS
World Immunization Week Aims to “Close the Immunization Gap” and Provide “a ...   AfricanBrains
Anti-vaccination movement blamed for low take-up rates of HPV vaccination on ...   The Australian
MedPage Today   
Science Daily   
New Zealand Herald   
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NBCNews.com
   
Weight Watchers founder dies   
WDAM-TV
(CNN) - The founder of Weight Watchers has passed away at her home in Florida. Jean Nidetch inspired millions around the world to achieve weight loss success through the program she founded more than five decades ago. And she created the meeting ...

Jean Nidetch, ardent promoter of Weight Watchers, dies at 91   Washington Post
In memoriam: Weight Watchers founder Nidetch dies at age 91   Houston Chronicle
Weight Watchers Founder Jean Nidetch Dies At 91   Sky News
BBC News   
NBCNews.com   
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The Guardian
   
Average Life Expectancy To Top 86 By 2030   
Sky News
People in affluent areas will likely live eight years longer than those in deprived parts of the north of England and South Wales. 00:43, UK, Thursday 30 April 2015. An elderly woman sits in front of the sea in Lege-Cap-Ferret,. Women's life expectancy at birth ...

Men 'catching up' on life expectancy   BBC News
Richest one per cent will live over eight years longer on average than those ...   The Independent
Britons to live up to four years longer than official estimates by 2030   Telegraph.co.uk
The Times (subscription)   
Belfast Telegraph   
Daily Mail   
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Daily Mail
   
Heart disease risk for men with more than 1 wife increases   
Daily Times
Men with more than one wife, who practise what is known as polygamy, suffer a four-fold increase of heart disease, according to medical researchers. The risk and severity of heart disease increased with the number of wives, they found. Polygamy is practised ...

Polygamy Increases Risk of Heart Disease, Study Says   Newsweek
Polygamous Men Are Five Times More Likely To Suffer From Heart Disease ...   Bustle
Too many wives are bad for the heart   6minutes
Daily Mail   
Telegraph.co.uk   
Medical Daily   
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The New Daily
   
World's fattest man surgery live tweeted   
The New Daily
Doctors have removed kilograms of flabby skin from an Englishman once thought to be the world's most obese, all under the watchful eyes of journalists. Paul Mason, 54, who now lives in the US, dropped 285 kilos and found love thanks to a gastric bypass, ...

Former 'world's fattest man' Paul Mason has 21kg of excess skin removed from ...   mirror.co.uk
Reporter live tweets former world's fattest man's "bat wing" skin surgery   Yahoo7 News
UK Man to shed kilos of skin   Herald Sun
Irish Independent   
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CBC.ca
   
Rubella eliminated from North and South America, officials declare   
CBC.ca
A 15-year campaign has stopped the spread of endemic rubella in the countries of the Americas, the Pan-American Health Organization announced Wednesday. The Americas is the first of the World Health Organization's six regions to eliminate transmission ...


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CBS News
   
The babies saved by 3-D printing are now healthy, adorable toddlers   
Washington Post
Three years ago, a newborn named Kaiba Gionfriddo underwent a radical new procedure: To keep his airway from collapsing due to a rare condition called tracheobronchomalacia, doctors implanted a 3D printed splint into the three-month-old. Now, his ...

Doctors print up '4-D' airway, save three babies   Today.com
Meet 3 kids alive today thanks to a 3D printer   CBS News
Babies' lives saved by 3-D printing   Science Codex
HealthCanal.com   
International Business Times UK   
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News24
   
Court to rule on assisted suicide   
News24
Pretoria – The High Court in Pretoria is expected to rule on Thursday on whether a terminally ill man can get a doctor's help to commit suicide. Robin Stransham-Ford, 65, a former advocate, was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer in September 2013.
Dying man awaits assisted suicide ruling   Independent Online
SA man persuades court to hear first right to die case   Times LIVE
High Court to rule on cancer patient right to euthanasia   The New Age Online

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Maine News
   
Global threat from antibiotic resistance increasing   
Maine News
According to the World Health Organization, a number of infections that are no longer treatable are increasing as a result of growing antimicrobial resistance, affecting lives of millions of people across the world. It has been found in the WHO study that there is ...

Most Countries Have No National Plan To Tackle Growing 'Superbug' Threat   Huffington Post
WHO Reports Most Countries Unprepared To Deal With Antibiotic-Resistant ...   Headlines & Global News
WHO warns of shift towards 'post-antibiotic era'   Economic Times
Times LIVE   
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