2014年11月20日 星期四

2014-11-21 Ghana Health

  IBNLive   
US military may extend anti-Ebola mission in West Africa  IBNLive
Washington: The US military may extend its mission to combat the spread of Ebola in West Africa beyond six months, if there was a surge of new cases. "We have to be prepared for this to go longer than six months," Pentagon official John Kirby said. He said ...

Effects of Ebola on Africa may be less than feared   Irish Independent
Liberia's beauty and power feed BC-based painter's art   The Globe and Mail
Global response to Ebola in Liberia hampered by infighting   Irish Times
New York Times   
Washington Post   
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  AsiaOne   
Nearly 30 per cent of world population is overweight  AsiaOne
More than 2.1 billion people globally - or nearly 30 per cent of the world's population - are now overweight or obese, with the figure set to rise further by 2030, according to a study published Thursday. Obesity is now blamed for around 5 per cent of all deaths ...

Can the world's obesity measures combined can make a difference?   The Australian Financial Review
Obesity rivals smoking and war among self-inflicted health risks   Los Angeles Times
Obesity in UK 'costing more than war'   Irish Examiner
The Globe and Mail   
Voice of America   
NPR (blog)   
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  Telegraph.co.uk   
Aust Ebola centre open within three weeks  Sky News Australia
Australian doctors at an Ebola treatment facility in Sierra Leone will treat their first patients within three weeks. Aspen Medical was awarded $20 million in federal funding earlier this month to run a 100-bed British military field hospital in Sierra Leone, and ...

Ebola: nine charts show why it matters   The Age
Ebola Spread Has Slowed in Liberia, CDC Says   New York Times
Only 38% of Australia's Ebola funds have made it to Africa, group claims   The Guardian
The Sun Daily   
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  PBS NewsHour   
25 percent of people worldwide still get fecally contaminated water  PBS NewsHour
The number of children who die from diarrhea and similar diseases has dropped dramatically over the last two decades, but billions of people around the world still do not have clean water and sanitation, the United Nations and World Health Organization ...

Two billion people drink water contaminated by feces   Catholic Online
Providing Toilets And Clean Water Access Is All Talk And No Action In Some ...   Huffington Post
748 mn people worldwide lack access to clean water: WHO   Zee News
The Guardian   
RT   
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  The Nation   
For ICN2 to succeed, we need a new food system paradigm  Huffington Post
By 2050, the world's population will reach 9 billion -- and all will need nutritious diets. Yet despite the intrinsic relationship between the food we grow and the food we eat, the agriculture and nutrition sectors are only just now beginning to overcome decades of ...

UN global meets on malnutrition   The Nation
UN urges action on world food system   Sky News Australia
UN urges action to fix 'broken' world food system   Daily Mail
Voice of America   
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  Daily Times   
Ensuring women's access to safe toilets is moral imperative: UN chief  Daily Times
NEW YORK – With one out of three women worldwide lacking access to safe toilets it is a moral imperative to end open defecation to ensure women and girls are not at risk of assault and rape simply because they lack a sanitation facility, United Nations ...

Watch: A giant cake shaped like a toilet to mark World Toilet Day   Firstpost
10 million child deaths attributed to global lack of toilets   Livemint
Watch: A super-sized cake shaped like a toilet was unveiled in New Delhi on ...   IBNLive
Boston Globe   
The Punch   
Deutsche Welle   
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  spyghana.com   
Little Big Souls Holds Prematurity Awareness Walk  spyghana.com
Each year, an estimated 15 million babies are born preterm (under 37 months) with about 1 million of them dying from related complications. Premature According to the World Health Organization (WHO), three quarters of the deaths are preventable given ...

SHERROD BROWN Addressing Infant Mortality on World Prematurity Day   The Clermont Sun

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  Daily Times   
Obesity increases prostate cancer risk  Spire Healthcare
A new report from the World Cancer Research Fund has suggested a link between advanced prostate cancer and obesity. The review of cumulative evidence suggests there is now a strong connection between carrying too much weight and the risk of prostate ...

Men's health – what are we so afraid of?   Cayman Compass
Men who 'monitor' their prostate cancers have high quality of life   Reuters
British GP highlights weight control message of new prostate cancer findings   New Zealand Doctor Online
East Bay Express (blog)   
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  Fox News   
Thousands of worshippers flock to small village after 'GOD' baby is born with ...  Metro
A little boy who was born with eight limbs has been hailed as an Indian God – sparking crowds of people rallying to see him. The village in West Bengal has become overrun with thousands of worshippers flocking to see the child, who has four arms and four ...

God Boy: Baby Born With Eight Limbs Draws Thousands Of Worshipers   The Inquisitr
Thousands flock to see baby born with 8 limbs in India   Fox News
PHOTO: Baby born with four arms, four legs in India called 'God's baby'   Catholic Online
Chinatopix   
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  spyghana.com   
NRCC to arrest the high rate of malnutrition in the North  spyghana.com
The Northern Regional Co-ordinating Council (NRCC) has established the Nutrition Steering Committee to promote multi-sectoral approach in nutrition programming to arrest the high rate of malnutrition amongst children in the region. Alhaji Mohammed ...


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