02.27.08
Posted in Health at 2:37 pm by heaven
Berlin - After a public outcry against Germany's limited help for aging thalidomide victims, the country's two ruling parties agreed Wednesday to double the monthly stipend paid to people disabled by the drug. Put on the market in October 1957 by the...
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Taipei - Taiwan Wednesday warned local doctors to be cautious in practicing medicine in China because they would lack the legal protection they enjoy in Taiwan. Without an official agreement to protect the interest of Taiwanese doctors practicing in...
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Posted in Health at 10:18 am by heaven
Manila - Philippine health authorities on Wednesday intensified the government's anti-tobacco campaign by mounting posters in public places that graphically show the health hazards of smoking. Health Secretary Francisco Duque said the Department of H...
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Posted in Health at 12:00 am by heaven
Singapore - A space crunch is prompting Singapore's public hospitals to turn office rooms into clinic facilities, news reports said Wednesday. At Tan Tock Seng Hospital, chief executive Lim Suet Wun is moving out of his office, and administrative sta...
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02.26.08
Posted in Health at 7:44 am by heaven
Hong Kong - Hong Kong recorded its highest ever annual number of HIV infections in 2007 as the virus spreads rapidly among gay men practicing unsafe sex, doctors announced Tuesday. The city of 6.9 million saw 414 new cases in 2007, an 11 per cent inc...
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