Turkey president reassures on health in hospital tweet
Reuters.co.uk Thu, 30 Aug 2012 02:56 AM PDT
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Abdullah Gul tweeted from his hospital bed on Thursday to reassure Turks he was recovering from an ear infection which forced him to cancel a Victory Day reception as well as several overseas trips. Related Stories U.N. chief excoriates Iran for threats to Israel, Holocaust denial Nations warn of broken promises at U.N. climate talks Former Maldives ... |
DOH launches website for reporting violations of the Milk Code
InterAksyon Thu, 30 Aug 2012 02:56 AM PDT
Amid fears that milk companies would be violating the Milk Code if they are allowed to make donations to calamity victims, the Department of Health on Thursday launched a website where violations of Executive Order 51 or the Philippine Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes can be reported. |
Guinea worm disease on verge of eradication, WHO reports
News-Medical-Net Thu, 30 Aug 2012 02:56 AM PDT
"The World Health Organization reports Guinea worm disease, which has plagued people for thousands of years, is on the verge of eradication," VOA News reports. "The U.N. agency says fewer than 400 cases of the infectious parasitic disease exist in four African countries, and that it will soon become only the second, after smallpox, to be wiped off the face of the earth," the news service writes. |
Judge rewords Mo. health insurance exchange ballot measure
News-Medical-Net Thu, 30 Aug 2012 02:41 AM PDT
A judge has reworded a ballot measure that would require that state's governor to seek legislative or voter approval before establishing a health insurance exchange over charges that the secretary of state's ballot language was misleading. |
Stowers investigators define factors that regulate size of cellular fat pools
News-Medical-Net Thu, 30 Aug 2012 02:41 AM PDT
As the national waistline expands, so do pools of intra-cellular fat known as lipid droplets. Although most of us wish our lipid droplets would vanish, they represent a cellular paradox: on the one hand droplets play beneficial roles by corralling fat into non-toxic organelles. On the other, oversized lipid droplets are associated with obesity and its associated health hazards. |
West Nile strikes 2nd Doña Ana County man
Las Cruces Sun-News Thu, 30 Aug 2012 02:34 AM PDT
LAS CRUCES â€" A second Doña Ana County man has been diagnosed with West Nile infection, bringing the total in the state to eight human cases this year, the New Mexico Department of Health |
Pink Fire Trucks visit Sioux Falls for cancer awareness
KSFY Sioux Falls Thu, 30 Aug 2012 02:30 AM PDT
Sioux Falls Fire Rescue is teaming up with Avera McKennan Hospital, University Health Center, and Sanford Health Systems to host a visit by pink fire trucks in support of cancer awareness from the Pink Heals National Tour. |
Viewpoints: Clarity needed on GOP health plan; Blaming the poor
News-Medical-Net Thu, 30 Aug 2012 02:26 AM PDT
As soon as he moves into the White House, Mitt Romney promises, he will demand that Congress repeal the health care reform law that is President Barack Obama's signature achievement. Far less clear is how Romney and Republicans in Congress would replace the Affordable Care Act. That is a critical question for Florida, which has nearly 4 million uninsured residents and has failed to develop its ... |
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