2015年7月24日 星期五

2015-07-25 Uganda Health


University Herald
   
Malaria Testing May Reduce Overprescription by 73%   
University Herald
mosquito (Photo : Flickr) Diagnostic tests could improve treatment of malaria patients, according to a recent study. New research suggests that diagnostic tests could improve treatment of malaria patients. Researchers from the Artemisinin-based ...
Testing for Malaria At Drug Shops Reduces Overprescription - Study   AllAfrica.com
Malaria death toll in Northern Uganda hits 165   New Vision
Malaria Diagnostic Testing Reduces Overprescription   Gazette Review
Humanosphere   
Medical Xpress   
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Wall Street Journal
   
FDA Proposes Placing Sugar Guide on Food Labels   
Wall Street Journal
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday formally proposed requiring nutrition labels to list amounts of added sugar and recommended consumption levels, a move long promoted by health advocates but opposed by many food and beverage companies.
FDA Proposes Labels That List Added Sugars and Do the Math, Too   New York Times
US pushing for clearer sugar labels on food   TVNZ
New food labels aim to help you eat less sugar   The Verge
SunHerald.com   
Press Herald   
ModVive   
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Los Angeles Times
   
As death nears, chemotherapy may do more harm than good   
Los Angeles Times
It's been documented that many terminal cancer patients don't benefit from chemotherapy and other types of treatments toward the end of their lives. Nonetheless, many, with their doctors, opt to continue treatment -- faced with impossible choices, they ...
End-of-life chemotherapy can give cancer patients WORSE quality of life   Daily Mail
Doctors raise concern about chemo for end-stage cancer   New Vision
Benefit of End-Stage Chemotherapy Is Questioned   New York Times

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Press Examiner
   
Eye drop gives hope for knifeless cataract cure   
Dispatch Times
Cataracts could soon be cured with a few eye drops that do away with surgeries, according to a study on dogs. In the recent study, researchers used lanosterol, a steroid that preceded cholesterol, on canines and found out that the product cleared the ...
Eye Drops Promise to Treat Cataracts Without Surgery   iFreePress.com (blog)
Soon Cataracts May Be Treated Operation-Free; Through Eye Drops   Press Examiner
Researchers Develop Eye Drops That 'Dissolve' Cataracts   International Business Times
WebMD   
Pioneer News   
UPI.com   
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TIME
   
First malaria vaccine gains regulator approval   
Irish Examiner
The world's first malaria vaccine got a green light from European drugs regulators who recommended it should be licensed for use in babies in Africa at risk of the mosquito-borne disease. The shot, called RTS,S or Mosquirix and developed by drugmaker ...

GlaxoSmithKline's Malaria Vaccine Clears Final Scientific Hurdle   Wall Street Journal
World's first malaria vaccine a step closer to rollout   ABC Online
Doctor's decades-long quest for malaria vaccine pays off   CBS News
BBC News   
Sky News Australia   
The Times (subscription)   
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Mirror.co.uk
   
Fiona Phillips: Bitter pills to swallow in war on Alzheimer's disease   
Mirror.co.uk
Having watched both my parents endure the wicked, cruel, extended onslaught that is early-onset Alzheimer's disease, I have long been furious at the ever-increasing glut of misleading headlines claiming a cure is in the pipeline. Or the ones that claim ...

More research funding needed for Alzheimer's   Dailysunnews
How Arizona is fighting Alzheimer's disease   azcentral.com
AVP-923 Significantly Reduces Agitation in Alzheimer's Disease   Neurology Advisor
wtkr.com   
U.S. News & World Report   
The Weather Space   
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CBS Local
   
West Nile virus detected in Santa Clara   
San Jose Mercury News
SANTA CLARA -- Fogging will start in Santa Clara next week after mosquitoes tested positive for West Nile virus, officials announced Friday. The Santa Clara County Vector Control District said with weather permitting, fogging will take place from 11 p ...
Horse in Boulder County diagnosed with West Nile virus   Lexington Herald Leader
Take simple steps to fight mosquitoes   Suffolk News-Herald
1 West Nile case confirmed in Walton County   The Northwest Florida Daily News

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The Express Tribune
   
Nigeria marks 1 year since last polio case   
The Nation
LAGOS - Nigeria on Friday marked one year since its last case of polio, raising hopes it will soon be taken off the list of endemic countries as the first step to being declared free of the disease. The last case was in the Sumaila district of Kano ...
Nigeria marks 1 year since last polio case, hopes to learn from previous mistakes   CBC.ca
Nigeria marks one year without recorded polio case   BBC News

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Echo Examiner
   
FDA Approves Novartis' New Skin (Basal Cell Carcinoma) Cancer Drug   
Echo Examiner
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved a drug to the most common form of skin cancer. The FDA gave a go-ahead to sonidegib (Odomzo) which will be used for the treatment of basal cell carcinoma (BCC). Before gaining the approval, ...

New skin cancer drug gets OK   The Australian (blog)
FDA Approves Odomzo for Recurring Basal Cell Carcinoma   Doctors Lounge
FDA OK's Odomzo from Novartis for common skin cancer type   San Francisco Chronicle (subscription)

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Times of India
   
Salary dues, lay-offs hit AIDS fight at grassroots   
Times of India
NEW DELHI: After a condom shortage, India's fight against AIDS faces a fresh challenge with thousands of health workers involved in programmes to control HIV being either laid off or not receiving salaries for several months. Health workers in states ...
Funding crisis puts India's AIDS programme, and lives, at risk   Daily Times
Hope and Help Center faces funding cuts   WESH Orlando
New HIV cases soar in Florida   Sun Sentinel
Fox News   
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